For centuries, Urdu has been part of a shared cultural space, shaped by people from diverse communities and traditions. Yet this fact is often forgotten or pushed aside. That’s why the new anthology ...

49 The Book Pertaining to the Remembrance of Allah , Supplication , Repentance and Seeking Forgiveness 147 Hadith 50 The Book of Repentance 70 Hadith 51 Characteristics of the Hypocrites and Rulings ...

ISLAMABAD, Jul 15 (APP):Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) hosted a book launching ceremony for the Urdu translation of Russian short stories titled "Roos ki Muntakhib Kahanian" on Tuesday. The book ...

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IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...

The word Hadith is derived from the Arabic word which means “to speak of” and “to report”. It means the tradition that is seen as narrative. However, hadith is the narration of the event from the life ...

Comprising 19 short stories that explore, among other themes, love, loss, dreams, history and violence, this collection of Urdu writing includes the work of Siddique Alam, Mahmoud Yasien, Shahira ...

Maulana Muhammed Manzoor Nomani (1905-1997), most arguably was one of the five prime most Muslims of the Indian sub-continent in the last century. He was the founding member of Jamaat-e-Islami and ...

The sound of the band could be heard and the baraat was almost at the doorstep. The thirteen-year-old bride was crying her eyes out in a backroom. Domni s were bursting their vocal cords singing ...