The contribution of Muslims in the spread of education during their rule in South Asia is tremendous. Even during the political decline of the Mughal Empire, the educational system thrived and… Read More

Bāgh-o-Bahār is not only an important Urdu classic, it has also been of great interest to researchers and has been cited more than once. This article reviews two of the best known edited versions… Read More

The Qurān, followed by aḥadīṡ are the primary sources and records of the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) life. To this day, sīrat writing continues and more work is being done with greater attention to… Read More

In the small and beautiful island of Mauritius, located in the Indian Ocean, more than a dozen languages are in use, Urdu being one of them since the last decade of the eighteenth century. This… Read More

This article discusses the use of the term “female consciousness” with its several connotations as applied in Urdu criticism and research. This term is generally used for a woman’s sensibility in… Read More

This article presents a selection (with annotations) of Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr's correspondence with Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Syed Abu al-Hasan Ali Nadvi and Masood Alam Nadvi that took place… Read More

This article discusses some important issues of Urdu lexicography, i.e. the act of compiling dictionaries. The writer points out that no Urdu lexicon as of now has been comprehensively compiled… Read More

Qāmūs al-Hind is an Urdu dictionary consisting of fifty five volumes. Compiled by Rajesher Rao Asghar some seventy five years ago, the dictionary remains unpublished and its only manuscript in the… Read More

Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan and is taught across Pakistan in majority of educational institutions. While most of the population is familiar with the language, there… Read More

This article discusses the futuristic quality of Mirza Ghalib’s poetry and its relevance to the present times. Urdu poetry has always upheld the importance of tradition and through the centuries,… Read More

Poetry depicts human emotions, sensibilities, as well as the collective experiences of human beings. The poet reaches a point where he enters the circle of existentialism, often experiencing… Read More

This research paper throws light on Muzaffar Ali Syed's contributions in the critical debate on the question of identity that conditioned the intellectual atmosphere in the first decade of the… Read More

This article studies poems eulogizing the prominent Urdu short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto. Poems written for him or about him are deemed as thought provoking. Several of these poems were… Read More

Majeed Amjad is a significant poet of modern Urdu verse, whose work covers a wide variety of subjects and techniques. His linguistic consciousness is unique and he chooses his diction according to… Read More

Bābū Gōpī Nātẖ is one of Manto’s epic characters. Through him the writer studies the gradual purging and transcendence of the human soul. The character, in spite of a decadent, socially… Read More

Nazir Ahmad, often considered to be the first Urdu novelist, used narratives for understanding the quickly changing world around him, and in his work, shaped expanding possibilities and new roles… Read More

Nazir Ahmad, often considered to be the first Urdu novelist, used narratives for understanding the quickly changing world around him, and in his work, shaped expanding possibilities and new roles… Read More

Tahira Iqbal is one of those contemporary short story writers, whose social consciousness is bringing forth new possibilities in Urdu fiction. The rural society of Pakistani Punjab is the major… Read More

Abdullah Hussain, an Urdu novelist and short story writer from Rawalpindi, is an important name in Urdu fiction. Despite belonging to what he would term as ‘middle class’ of Punjab, in his work he… Read More

This article titled “Poetry as an Act of History” is an Urdu translation of María Rosa Menocal’s essay, along with the translator’s notes. The author studies how the influence of the Andalusian… Read More

A systematic study of the process of translation began in the 1950s in light of modern linguistic and cultural theories, methods and tools. Since then, several new developments have taken place.… Read More

Translation Studies is now a recognized discipline, however, scholars in Pakistan have yet to review translations in a theoretical context. This article reviews the influence of various factors on… Read More

After the capture by Lord Lake (1803) of the metropolis of Mughal India, Delhi, the authoritative personages of the East India Company thought of taking certain measures to complete their… Read More

Cultural and literary crossing-over has been going on since ancient times. However, as the pace of globalization increased in the twentieth century, literary forms and genres peculiar to one… Read More