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In: Tehseel Issue 6
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This brief article presents unpublished letters of Maulana Syed Abul A’ala Maududi in which Maulana sent receipts to the writer who had sent him his books and a pamphlet Tehreek-e Pakistan and Maulana Muadudi (The Pakistan Movement and Maulana Maududi). The letters show that Maulana was unwell when the letters sent. Maulana could not find time to read the books sent him to study. It also contains introductory remarks where the writer mentioned background of the letters and his starting intellectual life in which the influence of Maulana Maududi’s influence was noticeable. The writer shared experience of meeting Maulana at his residence at Lahore, Ichhra.Read More →

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In: Tehseel Issue 4
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This review presents the Japanese transition of Armughan-e Hijaaz (a collection of Urdu poetry of Iqbal) along with other Japanese translation of Urdu works in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Many Urdu classical and modern texts were rendered into Japanese language to serve the language students of the university. Ghalib, Iqbal and Faiz are the fortunate poets of Urdu whose poetry rendered into Japanese language. Many Japanese scholars and translators have contributed much to acquaint the Japanese Urdu loving academic audience. For the first time, Japanese Baba-e Urdu began to translate Urdu text Bagh-o Bahar. Many followed the footpath. Among those few translators are Prof Suzuki Takeshi, Prof Yutaka Asada Yutaka, Heroshi Hagita, Prof Matsumura, Prof So Yamane, Ms Shashore and Prof Heroji Kataoka.Read More →

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In: Personalities, Tehseel Issue 3
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This article presents a text, titled KhwajaHasanNizami by Dr Ghulam Yazdani. The text remained unedited in any collection focusing the genre of sketch writing particularly sketches written by a renowned writer Khwaja Hasan Nizami. Dr Salman Shahjahanpuri edited some sketches of Khwaja Hasan Nizam but does not include the text being produced. The writer of this sketch Dr Ghulam Yazdani himself a known name among his contemporaries and was awarded OBE in recognition of his scholarship. He was a man of many talents. He authored books in Urdu and English. He edited many rare texts of classical nature in Urdu language. The editing of classical texts Shahjahan Nama and Mathnavi Maulana Rom are remembrance of his toil. His works on archeology were well received by the experts of the field. His research on gravestone written in Arabic and Persian language is remarkable to some extent. The text being produced here has many things new about Khwaja Hasan Nizam to share.Read More →