248 pages, Hardcover First published January 1, 1867 Fasana e Ajaib has special place in our fiction literature. This is kind of literature which is the link between dastaan and novel. It was written almost 175 years ago but still found attractive and appreciated by critics. Although the language used is obsolete even then reader can find it interesting. There is brief vocabulary given at …
120 pages First published January 1, 1889 This is the first critical presentation in English of Hali's epic poem, The Musaddas on "The Ebb and Flow of Islam"--a landmark in the development of Urdu poetry as of modern Indian literature.
320 pages, Hardcover ممتاز مفتی نے 1968ء میں قدرت اللہ شہاب کے ہمراہ حج بیت اللہ کی سعادت حاصل کی۔ اس سفر کے تقریباً چھ سال بعد 1975ء میں ان کے حج کے سفر کی روداد ایک رپوتاژ کی شکل میں التحریر، لاہور کے زیر اہتمام شائع ہوئی۔ اس پہلے یہ …
Raja Gidh (Urdu: راجه گدھ) by Bano Qudsia is one of the most widely read and acclaimed Urdu novels. Gidh is the Urdu word for a vulture and Raja is a Hindi synonym for king. The name anticipates the kingdom of vultures. In fact, parallel to the main plot of the novel, an allegorical story of such a kingdom is narrated. The metaphor of the vulture as an animal feeding mostly on the carcas…
Faiz Ahmad Faiz [فيض ١حمد فيض] was born on February 13, 1911, in Sialkot, British India, which is now part of Pakistan. He had a privileged childhood as the son of wealthy landowners Sultan Fatima and Sultan Muhammad Khan, who passed away in 1913, shortly after his birth. His father was a prominent lawyer and a member of an elite literary circle which included Allama Iqbal, the nation…
The best of Mirza Ghalib, one of the greatest Urdu poets, is presented in this compendium. Each of the 104 ghazals, 7 miscellaneous nazms, and 68 selected letters are presented in the original Urdu text, with a parallel translation in simple, lucid English, and a transliteration in Roman script for readers who are not familiar with Urdu in Persian script. A critical introduction to Ghalib's wor…
پطرس کے مضامین میں ظرافت عام رواج سے ہٹ کر ہے۔ اور اس کا آغاز مختصر دیباچے ہی سے ہوتا ہے: ”اگر یہ کتاب آپ کو کسی نے مفت بھیجی ہے تو مجھ پر احسان کیا ہے اگر آپ نے کہیں سے چرائی ہے تو میں آپ کے ذوق کی داد دیتا ہوں اپنے پیسوں سے …
First published January 1, 1963-558 pages, Hardcover This novel narrates about the different aspects of a generation. The novel is so exciting that the reader will love to read it more than once. Feudal system of undivided India, British, Hindu & Muslims are main characters of this novel.
Armaghan-i-Hijaz (Gift from Hijaz; published in Persian, 1938) was a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of Islam. This work, published a few months after the poet's death, is a fairly small volume containing verses in both Persian and Urdu. It is incomplete, although this is not readily apparent to the reader; for Iqbal left some gaps in the book which he inte…