E-Books & Rare Manuscripts (کتب خانہ)
Read and explore digitized historical Diwans, Kulliyats, and Urdu classical literary collections.
Shayad (First Poetry Collection)
Jaun EliaJaun Elia's iconic masterwork with his celebrated 60-page autobiographical preface exploring memory, loss, and philosophy.
Nuskha-ha-e-Wafa (Complete Works of Faiz)
Faiz Ahmed FaizAnthology compiling all 7 groundbreaking poetry collections of Faiz including Naqsh-e-Faryadi, Dast-e-Saba, and Zindan-Nama.
Kulliyat-e-Josh
Sahir LudhianviKulliyat-e-Josh (کلیاتِ جوش) is the complete collected poetry (Kulliyat) of Josh Malihabadi (Shabbir Hasan Khan, 1898–1982), the celebrated Urdu poet famously known as the Shair-e-Inqilab (Poet of the Revolution)
Bal-e-Jibreel
Muhammad IqbalIqbal's celebrated Urdu collection Gabriel's Wing, containing some of his most famous poems on selfhood, faith, action and the destiny of the East.
Diwan-e-Dard
Khwaja Mir DardThe Urdu diwan of Khwaja Mir Dard, Delhi's leading Sufi poet, famed for short, deeply mystical ghazals of pain, love and renunciation.
Diwan-e-Momin
Momin Khan MominDiwan of Momin Khan Momin, Delhi's master of the romantic ghazal, presented with a commentary explaining his famously delicate, layered verses.
Diwan-e-Zauq
Shaikh Ibrahim ZauqDiwan of Zauq, poet laureate of the last Mughal court and teacher of Bahadur Shah Zafar, celebrated for idiom-rich ghazals and qasidas.
Diwan-e-Hasrat Mohani
Hasrat MohaniDiwan of Hasrat Mohani, freedom fighter and ghazal poet, whose romantic, musically simple verse kept the classical ghazal alive in modern India.
Diwan-e-Nazir Akbarabadi
Nazir AkbarabadiDiwan of Nazir, the people's poet of Agra, whose nazms and ghazals celebrate festivals, seasons, trades and the common life of his city.
Diwan-e-Mushafi (Vol. 1)
Ghulam Hamdani MushafiFirst volume of the diwan of Mushafi, the tireless Delhi-Lucknow master whose eight diwans preserved the ghazal tradition across two centuries.
Diwan-e-Wali
Wali Muhammad WaliDiwan of Wali Deccani, the father of Urdu ghazal, whose collection carried the Rekhta ghazal from the Deccan to Delhi's court.
Masnavi Sehr-ul-Bayan
Mir HasanMir Hasan's beloved romance masnavi of Prince Benazir and Princess Badr-e-Munir, the most famous narrative poem of classical Urdu literature.
Marsiya-e-Anis
Mir Babar Ali AnisThe marsiyas of Mir Anis, the supreme elegist of Karbala, whose narrative power and pure Urdu diction raised the marsiya to its peak.
Aftab-e-Daagh
Daagh DehlviThe third diwan of Daagh Dehlvi, the most idiomatic voice of the Delhi ghazal, full of wit, romance and everyday Urdu speech.
Musaddas-e-Hali (Madd-o-Jazr-e-Islam)
Altaf Hussain HaliHali's landmark 1879 musaddas on the rise and fall of Islam, the poem that changed the course of modern Urdu poetry forever.
