E-Books & Rare Manuscripts (کتب خانہ)
Read and explore digitized historical Diwans, Kulliyats, and Urdu classical literary collections.
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-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.
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.
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.
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.
Diwan-e-Mirza Mazhar
Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-JananDiwan of Mirza Mazhar, the revered Naqshbandi Sufi of Delhi whose Persian-influenced Urdu ghazals shaped a generation of poets.
Marsiya-e-Dabeer
Mirza Salamat Ali DabeerMarsiyas of Mirza Dabeer of Lucknow, Anis's great rival, celebrated for grandeur of diction, Persianised style and sweeping battle scenes of Karbala.