Download or read book The Mountains of Kohqaf written by Ahmed Amin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding a pearl that moved on its own was peculiar enough for Azeen. When he decided to follow it, little did he know that it would take him to the nonexistent mountains of Kohqaf, the magical lands in folktales and legends. Azeen is plunged into the unknown wonders of a hidden land, but the real purpose of the pearl is to get back to its rightful owner, the missing Shezadi (Princess) Almera.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Persian English Dictionary written by Francis Steingass and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comprehensive Persian English Dictionary written by Francis Steingass and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World`S Most Detailedand Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Urd Classical Hind and English written by John Thompson Platts and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Hindustani English Dictionary with Illustrations from Hindustani Literature and Folk lore written by S ..... -W ..... Fallon and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Hindustani English Dictionary with Illustrations from Hindustani Literature and Folk Lore written by Samuel W. Fallon and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tilism e Hoshruba written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tilism-e-Hoshruba is an epic narrative of the adventures of the legendary Persian hero Emir Hamza—the protagonist of Hamza Nama—his sons and grandsons. The epic opens with the commander-in-chief of the Islamic army, Hamza, pursuing Laqa, who makes false claims to divinity. Laqa takes refuge in Kohistan, adjacent to the enchanted land of Hoshruba, ruled by the formidable King of Sahirs, Afrasiyab Jadoo. Afrasiyab reveres Laqa and deputes his sahirs or wizards to help him fight Hamza. Hamza’s grandson Asad then sets out to conquer Hoshruba, assisted by the clever trickster Amar, who possesses divine artefacts such as a cloak of invisibility and a magic pouch containing parallel worlds. Aided by powerful allies and beset at every step by magical snares, dangerous enchantments and seductive sorceresses, the Islamic army finally conquers Hoshruba. Tilism-e-Hoshruba has enthralled generations of readers with its chivalrous heroes, breathtakingly beautiful princesses, powerful sahirs, sahiras and demons. This brilliant condensed translation by Shahnaz Aijazuddin sensitively reinterprets the highly Persianized Urdu of the original text into this eminently readable book that retains the essence of the original.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Urd Classical Hind and English written by John Thompson Platts and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: URDU - HINDI - ENGLIH
Download or read book Koh i noor Or the Mountain of Light Etc written by Thomas Connor and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queer Companions written by Omar Kasmani and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place’s patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state’s infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making with saints.
Download or read book The City Speaks written by Subashish Bhattacharjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the significance and representation of the ‘city’ in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists. It demonstrates how cities give birth to social images, perspectives, and complexities, and explores the ways in which cities and the characters in Indian literature coexist to form a larger literary framework of interpretations. Drawing on the theoretical concepts of Western urban thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Edward Soja, David Harvey, and Diane Levy, as well as South Asian thinkers such as Ashis Nandy, Arjun Appadurai, Vinay Lal, and Ravi Sundaram, the book projects against a seemingly monolithic and homogenous Western qualification of urban literatures and offers a truly unique and contentious presentation of Indian literature. Unfolding the urban-literary landscape of India, the volume lays the groundwork for an urban studies approach to Indian literature. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, especially Indian writing in English, urban studies, and South Asian studies.
Download or read book Faces of God Images of Devotion in Indo Muslim Painting 1500 1800 written by Murad Khan Mumtaz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view. This book situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion and ritual shaped by Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Central to this story are the Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their Sufi guide Mulla Shah. Through detailed art historical analysis supported by new translations, this study contextualizes artworks made for Indo-Muslim patrons by putting them into direct dialogue with written testimonies.
Download or read book written by Muhammad Arif Qandhari and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales From Birehra written by Rafi Mustafa and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With deeply vivid storytelling that delves into the symbiotic Hindu-Muslim relationship shared across the Indian sub-continent prior to the ending of the British Raj, Tales from Birehra is a unique and truly compelling narrative. Birehra is a fictional microcosm of the country and times-a tiny village, shared peacefully by people of different faiths, and shaped by four hundred years of life lived close to the land and guided by the rhythms of the seasons. Could it really all be washed away by the looming tide of an evolving political climate, so far removed from their simple yet time-honoured existence? Could such a thing even be possible, when Birehra's roots run so deep, anchoring it to the land and the heart of a people? With vivid scenery, and characters who seem to breathe with colourful life, Rafi Mustafa draws his readers into the culture he describes, making them treasure its simple joys and dread its looming devastation....
Download or read book The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America written by George Pope Morris and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1853 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Their Own Words written by C. Christine Fair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a jihadist terrorist group, functions in Pakistan and beyond by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT. Only a fraction of LeT's cadres ever see battle: most of them are despatched on nation-wide "prozelytising" (dawa) missions to convert Pakistanis to their particular interpretation of Islam, in support of which LeT has developed a sophisticated propagandist literature. This canon of Islamist texts is the most popular and potent weapon in LeT's arsenal, and its scrutiny affords insights into how and who the group recruits; LeT's justification for jihad; its vision of itself in global and regional politics; the enemies LeT identifies and the allies it cultivates; and how and where it conducts its operations. Particular attention is paid to the role that LeT assigns to women by examining those writings which heap extravagant praise upon the mothers of aspirant jihadis, who bless their operations and martyrdom. It is only by understanding LeT's domestic functions as set out in these texts that one can begin to appreciate why Pakistan so fiercely supports it, despite mounting international pressure to disband the group.
Download or read book The Adventures of Amir hamza written by Ghalib Lakhnavi and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic: a panoramic tale of magic and passion, a classic hero’s odyssey that has captivated much of the world. It is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, the adventurer who in the service of the Persian emperor defeats many enemies, loves many women, and converts hundreds of infidels to the True Faith before finding his way back to his first love. In Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s faithful rendition, this masterwork is captured with all its colorful action and fantastic elements intact. Appreciated as the seminal Islamic epic or enjoyed as a sweeping tale as rich and inventive as Homer’s epic sagas, The Adventures of Amir Hamza is a true literary treasure.
