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Ikram Chughtai
Muhammad Ikram Chughtai (22 October 1941 – 7 January 2023), also written as M. Ikram Chughtai or Ikram Chagatai, was a Pakistani researcher, translator, historian, and biographer. He conducted research on Muhammad Husain Azad and Muhammad Asad and published several rare and previously unpublished documents, contributing to Urdu research. His work in Iqbal Studies is frequently referenced in academic literature. His research methodologies and findings have been cited in Urdu, English, and other languages. Early life and education Muhammad Ikram Chughtai was born in Sialkot on 22 October 1941. He obtained a master's degree in Urdu from the University of the Punjab in 1964. He studied Urdu, English, and history, which became the foundation of his academic and research career. Career and literary contributions Early career Chughtai began his professional journey as a lecturer at the University of the Punjab. He later held the position of Director at the Urdu Science Board ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sialkot
Sialkot (Punjabi language, Punjabi, ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the capital of the Sialkot District and the List of most populous cities in Pakistan, 12th most populous city in Pakistan. The boundaries of Sialkot are joined by Jammu in the north east, the districts of Narowal District, Narowal in the southeast, Gujranwala District, Gujranwala in the southwest and Gujrat District, Gujrat in the northwest. Sialkot is known as the city of Muhammad Iqbal, Allama Iqbal. Sialkot is believed to be the successor city of Sagala, the capital of the Madra Kingdom, Madra kingdom which was destroyed by Alexander the Great in 326 BCE. It was made capital of the Indo-Greek kingdom by Menander I in the 2nd century BCE — a time during which the city greatly prospered as a major center for trade and Buddhist thought. In the 6th century CE, it again become capital of the Taank Kingdom, which ruled Punjab for the next two centuries. Sialkot continued to be a major political ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urdu Science Board
Urdu Science Board (abbreviated as USB) is an academic and literary institution in Pakistan that operates under the National Heritage and Culture Division, Government of Pakistan. It aims to promote scientific and technical knowledge in Urdu language through the publication of books and journals. History The Urdu Science Board was initially established as the Central Urdu Board on 24 May 1962, based on the recommendations of the Sharif Commission (1959). The institution was renamed Urdu Science Board in 1982 to reflect its focus on publishing science and social sciences content in Urdu. Its former director generals include Ashfaq Ahmed, Amjad Islam Amjad Amjad Islam Amjad, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Hilal-i-Imtiaz (; 4 August 1944 – 10 February 2023) was a Pakistani Professor, Urdu poet, screenwriter, playwright and lyricist.Ally Adnan (September 2016), The author of more than ..., Khalid Iqbal Yasir, and Nasir Abbas Nayyar. Former directors include I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moinuddin Aqeel
Moinuddin Aqeel (Urdu: معین الدین عقیل) (born 25 June 1946) is a Pakistani author, critic, and scholar of Urdu literature. Early life and education Aqeel was born in India in 1946 and after the partition, came to Pakistan. He obtained his M.A. in 1969, PhD on ''The Role of Urdu in the Freedom Movement'' in 1975, and DLitt in 2003, all from the University of Karachi. Academic career Aqeel was as a professor and chair of the Urdu department at the University of Karachi. During his tenure at the University of Karachi, he also held several key positions, including director of the Bureau of Composition, Compilation and Translation from 2002 to July 2003, and director of the Evening Programme from July 2003 to January 2004. Additionally, he has been the head examiner for Urdu at the International Baccalaureate Organisation in Cardiff, UK, since 2001. He retired from the University of Karachi in 2006. Aqeel has taught Urdu at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers () is a Dutch international academic publisher of books, academic journals, and Bibliographic database, databases founded in 1683, making it one of the oldest publishing houses in the Netherlands. Founded in the South Holland city of Leiden, it maintains its headquarters there, while also operating offices in Boston, Paderborn, Vienna, Singapore, and Beijing. Since 1896, Brill has been a public limited company (). Brill is especially known for its work in subject areas such as Oriental studies, classics, religious studies, Jewish studies, Islamic studies, Asian studies, international law, and human rights. The publisher offers traditional print books, academic journals, primary source materials online, and publications on microform. In recent decades, Brill has expanded to Electronic publishing, digital publishing with ebooks and online resources including databases and specialty collections varying by discipline. History Founding by Luchtmans, 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library
Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library is one of the national libraries of India, located in Patna, Bihar. It was opened to public on 29 October 1891 by Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh with 4,000 manuscripts, of which he inherited 1,400 from his father Maulvi Mohammed Bakhsh. It is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture (India), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and is governed by a Board with the Governor of Bihar as its ''ex officio'' Chairman, and is known for its rare collection of Persian language, Persian and Arabic manuscripts. It also hosts paintings made during the Rajput and Mughal Empire, Mughal eras of India. It is also a designated 'Manuscript Conservation Centre' (MCC) under the National Mission for Manuscripts. History The person In 1895, he was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Nizam's Hyderabad State, Kingdom. After staying there for almost 3 years, he returned to Patna again and started practicing. But soon he was suffering from paralysis an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloys Sprenger
Aloys Sprenger (born 3 September 1813, in Nassereith, Tyrol; died 19 December 1893 in Heidelberg) was an Austrian Orientalist. Sprenger studied medicine, natural sciences as well as oriental languages at the University of Vienna. In 1836 he moved to London, where he worked with the Earl of Munster on the latter's ''Geschichte der Kriegswissenschaften bei den mohammedanischen Völkern'', ‘History of Military Science among the Muslim Peoples’, and thence in 1843 to Calcutta, where he became principal of Delhi College. In this capacity he had many textbooks translated into Hindustani from European languages. In 1848 he was sent to Lucknow, to prepare a catalogue of the royal library there, the first volume of which appeared in Calcutta in 1854. This book, with its lists of Persian poets, its careful description of all the chief works of Persian poetry and its valuable biographical material, became a worthy guide for the exploration of Persian literature. In 1850 Sprenger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakir Husain Delhi College
Zakir Husain Delhi College (formerly known as Zakir Husain College, Anglo Arabic College, and Delhi College), founded in 1696, is the oldest existing educational institution in India, and is a constituent college of the University of Delhi, accredited with NAAC 'A' grade. The college comprises an area of 150 acres. The college is situated in off campus of University of Delhi.Zakir Hussain College to get a new name Times of India (newspaper), Published 26 December 2011, Retrieved 12 January 2018 It has had a considerable influence on modern education as well as Urdu and Islamic learning in India, and today remains the only Delhi University college offering BA (Hons) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khwaja Hasan Nizami
Khwaja Hasan Nizami (6 January 1878-31 July 1955) was an Indian Sufi saint and a known Urdu essayist and humorist and satirist who wrote many essays for the ''Mukhzun Akhbar'' magazine. He wrote more than 60 books including the incidents of Indian Rebellion of 1857, while Mulla Wahidi writes that he had over five hundred books on an amazing variety of subjects to his credit. Being a Sufi he had many disciples and it appeared in his literature. His maternal grandfather Ghulam Hasan Chisti was a friend and spiritual advisor to Bahadur Shah Zafar and frequently visited the Red Fort. His mother used to tell him the stories of the Mughal family she had heard from her father. He had himself met Kulsum Zamani Begum, Zafar's daughter. He has narrated the tragic stories of Mirza Nasir-ul-Mulk, Zafar's grandson, who eventually became a servant of a British family and later crawled on his knees and begged in Bazar Chitli Kabr. Mirza Kamar Sultan, another of Zafar's grandson also used to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wajid Ali Shah
Mirza Wajid Ali Shah () (30 July 1822 – 1 September 1887) was the eleventh and last King of Awadh, holding the position for 9 years, from 13 February 1847 to 11 February 1856. Wajid Ali Shah's first wife was Alam Ara who was better known as Khas Mahal () because of her exquisite beauty. She was one of two Nikahi wives. His second wife, Muhammadi Khanum, better known as the Begum Hazrat Mahal, rose against the British East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 as the regent of Awadh. His kingdom, long protected by the East India Company (EIC) under a treaty, was annexed by the EIC on 11 February 1856, two days before the ninth anniversary of his coronation. The Nawab was exiled to Garden Reach in Metiabruz, then a suburb of Kolkata, where he lived out the rest of his life on a generous pension. He was a poet, playwright, dancer and great patron of the arts. He introduced Kathak, a major form of classical Indian dance as a court dance after the decline of Mughal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of Independence 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against Company rule in India, the rule of the East India Company, British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the The Crown, British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, northeast of Delhi. It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the Ganges Basin, upper Gangetic plain and central India, though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east. The rebellion posed a military threat to British power in that region, and was contained only with the rebels' defeat in Gwalior on 20 June 1858., , and On 1 November 1858, the British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the hostilities to have formally ended until 8 July 1859. The Names of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, name of the revolt is contested, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy Nazir Ahmad
Maulvi Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, also known as Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu novelist, social and religious reformer, and orator. Even today, he is best known for his novels, he wrote over 30 books on subjects such as law, logic, ethics and linguistics. His famous novels are '' Mirat-ul-Uroos'', ''Tobat-un-Nasuh,'' and ''Ibn-ul-waqt''. He also translated the Qur’an into Urdu. Early life and upbringing Nazir Ahmad was born in 1831 to a family of scholars in Rehar, Bijnor District, U.P., India. His father, Saadat Ali Khan, was a teacher at a religious seminary (madrassa). Until the age of nine, he was home-schooled in Persian and Arabic. He then studied Arabic grammar for five years under the guidance of Deputy Collector Bajnor, Nasrallah Saheb. To further Ahmad's Arabic skills, in 1842 his father took him to Delhi to study under the guidance of Abd ul-Khaliq at the Aurangabadi Mosque. Ahmad's family was greatly opposed to sending boys to educational institutions running on w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Ahmad Khan
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898), also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim Islamic modernist, reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British Raj, British India. Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he later became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in South Asia, Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the basis of the Pakistan movement. Born into a family with strong ties to the Durbar (court), Mughal court, Ahmad studied science and the Quran within the court. He was awarded an honorary LLD from the University of Edinburgh in 1889. In 1838, Syed Ahmad entered the service of East India Company and went on to become a judge at a Small Causes Court in 1867, retiring from this position in 1876. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857, he remained loyal to the British Empire, British Raj and was noted for his actions in saving European lives.Cyril Glass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
