This paper endeavours to identify the sources of Urdu script through a comparative study of the letters and features of various scripts. To this end, not only have the views of researchers and… Read More

The Persian manuscript under discussion—Iqbāl Nāma-i Sa‘ādat Āyāt by Maulvi Muhammad Azam Bahawalpuri—is part of unpublished political history of the State of Bahawalpur. It was written under the… Read More

Ameer Ahmed Minai was an illustrious poet and a writer. He wrote poetry in almost every genre including ghaẓal, na‘at, qaṣīda, maṡnavī, rubā‘ī, salām, sehrā, keh mukarni, pahēlī, tarkīb band, and… Read More

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is undoubtedly the first mental health professional who defined not only dynamics of the psychology of colonialism but also elaborated the phenomenology of it from the… Read More

Sadat Hasan Manto is now widely acknowledged as a great short story writer of Urdu. He was a creative genius, indeed. Among other things, deep psychological insights of human behaviors and… Read More

The theme of epidemics has been traced in the world literary works since antiquity. In ancient times, epidemics were considered as a divine punishment to men for their sins. Identifying pandemic… Read More

Intizar Hussain was an eminent fiction writer, critic, columnist, and a trendsetter in Urdu fiction, particularly. In post-partition Urdu fiction, he came to subvert the very paradigm of writing… Read More

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa is one of the most eminent literary figures of Latin America from recent past. With eighteen novels to his credit, he has written extensively on other genres (such… Read More

In the last four decades, many travelogues of Iran have been written by Pakistani tourists in Urdu. These travelogues narrate a whole range of features of the Iranian society. Conspicuously, the… Read More

Gautama Buddha’s thoughts, ideas, and teachings have had a profound effect not only on the minds of common people from all parts of the world but also upon great poets of all ages. Ghalib, the… Read More

Majeed Amjad’s concept of man is distinct from the one his contemporary held. Early period of Majeed Amjad’s poetry is replete with the traditional concept of nature, according to which she is to… Read More

The mainstream postmodernism has led western mind to a kind of disillusionment and a consequent disenchantment with the existential human yearnings for a historical anchoring without which… Read More

Since the inception of twentieth century, the tradition of linguistic analysis acquired prominence in the field of literary criticism. Tremendous advancement in philosophical systems based on… Read More