The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has launched the second edition of the first Algerian novel translated into Urdu, ...

He also wrote political and social satires. Akbarabadi's influence, through Altaf Husain Hali and Muhammad Husain Azad in the 19th century, has continued in Urdu poetry to this day. One of the great ...

It is written from right to left like Arabic and Persian and in the same script. By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry.

The 86th death anniversary of philosopher, poet and thinker, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal was observed today to acknowledge his services for the Muslims of the subcontinent. He was born on November 9, ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the great Philosopher of the East Allama Iqbal gave a separate intellectual direction to the Muslim Ummah through his unique philosophy and Urdu and Persian ...

Born in 1877 in Sialkot in undivided India, the national poet of Pakistan had written the famous song ‘Saare jahan se achcha ...

Local poets have always talked about Lahore in their poetry — be it Urdu or Persian or Punjabi ... Karamat Ali Mughal and Iqbal Qaiser have contributed their papers. Persian section has articles ...

When reading poetry a reader will interpret what it means to them. Everyone's response is different. What is imagery? Learn about how writers use imagery, the impact of imagery and how it appeals ...

In hand this week is a thick volume of reflections on Urdu poetry, a language that started ... In times to come it was taken ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...