E-Books & Rare Manuscripts (کتب خانہ)
Read and explore digitized historical Diwans, Kulliyats, and Urdu classical literary collections.
Bang-e-Dra (The Call of the Marching Bell)
Allama Muhammad IqbalThe philosophical masterwork featuring timeless anthems like Shikwa, Jawab-e-Shikwa, and Tarana-e-Milli.
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.
Kulliyat-e-Akbar (Vol. I)
Akbar AllahabadiFirst volume of Akbar Allahabadi's collected works, the unmatched satirist whose witty verse lampooned colonial manners and hollow modernity.
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.
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.
Diwan-e-Amanat
Sayyed Agha Hussain AmanatDiwan of Sayyed Agha Hussain Amanat of Lucknow, printed at Matba Anwari, Lucknow, in 1887 — the collected Urdu poetry of a Lucknow master already represented in the Safha Directory.
Diwan-e-Amir Minai
Amir MinaiDiwan of Amir Minai of Rampur and Hyderabad, the refined ghazal master and lexicographer famed for graceful diction and Sufi-tinged romance.
Mawazina-e-Anis-o-Dabeer
Shibli NomaniShibli Nomani's celebrated comparative study of the marsiya masters Mir Anis and Mirza Dabeer, first published in the early twentieth century — a cornerstone of Urdu literary criticism.