Aligarh, UTTAR PRADESH :

Aligarh , (PTI) :

Sahitya Academy Award winner and noted scholar Asloob Ahmad Ansari died here after brief illness at the age of 91.

Ansari, a former head of the Department of English at Aligarh Muslim University, died last night following brief illness and was laid to rest this afternoon at the university graveyard, family sources said.

Senior officials of the University and former members of the teaching faculty were present during his last rites.

Ansari, who is survived by two daughters, had the unique distinction of contributing both to English and Urdu literature.

He was conferred the Sahitya Academy Award in 1980 for his work in Urdu, Iqbal Ki Terah Nazmen.

Ansari was also recipient of UP Urdu Academy Award, Ghalib Award and Bahadur Shah Zafar Award for his textual criticism of the works of Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal.

He studied at AMU and later graduated in English from the University of Oxford.

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