Qazi Abdul Sattar (8 February 1933 at Machreta â 29 October 2018 at New Delhi) was an Indian novelist and short story writer who wrote in Urdu.
He had penned several Urdu novels â mainly set in historical contexts â including Shab Gazida, Dara Shikoh, Salahuddin Ayyubi, Khalid Ibn-e-Waleed, and Ghalib.
He was born in 1933 in Machreta near Sitapur. He completed his post graduation from Lucknow University. In 1954 he joined Aligarh Muslim University as a researcher. He served as a Professor of Urdu in Aligarh Muslim University until his retirement in 1991.
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In 1974 he won the Padma Shri.