Important Books on Islamic History

1. Pick out the name of the author of the book entitled “Tarikh-ul-Khulafa”?

1. Al-Masoodi
2. Suyuti
3. Imam Ghazli (R.A)
4. Kindi

Answer: Suyuti

2. Which book was written by Tabari?

1. Tabqat-ul-Khubara
2. Kitab-ul-Wulat
3. Tarikh-ul-Khulafa
4. Tarikh-ul-Umara Wal Muluk

Answer: Tarikh-ul-Umara Wal Muluk

3. Give the name of of the author of the renowned book entitled “Futuh-ul-Baldan”?

1. Ibn-al-Abbar
2. Al-Baladhuri
3. Yaqoobi
4. Ibn-al-Athir

Answer: Al-Baladhuri

4. Which work has been the main cause of the fame of Ibn Khaldun?

1. Muqaddama
2. Kitab-ul-Futuh
3. Mujam-al-Baldan
4. Non of these

Answer: Muqaddama

5. Which book was written by T.Arnold?

1. Medieval Islam
2. S.F.Mahmood
3. Syed Ameer Ali
4. Bernard Lewis

Answer: Syed Ameer Ali

6. Pick out the name of the author of the book entitled “The Majesty that was Islam”?

1. Cantwell Smith
2. B.Spuler
3. W.M.Watt
4. Montgomery Watt

Answer: Montgomery Watt

History of Urdu poetry

Urdu language and literature, beyond their spatial confines, have been more heard of than read. With the publication of some notable translations, some of them in the recent past, a new literary culture seems to be emerging from the canons of the old. Modern Urdu poetry, of which this is the first comprehensive selection, has its own tradition of the new. It has developed through stages of a variegated literary history. This history has absorbed both the native and non- native elements of writing in Arabic and Persian, and the Urdu language has survived through several crises and controversies. Some of these are related to its growth and development, its use by the British to divide the Hindus and the Muslims. it estrangement in the land of its birth following the Partition of India and its interaction with Hindi once akin but now an alien counterpart. Even with the extinction of those generations of Sikhs in Punjab, Muslims in Bengal and Hindus elsewhere, who nurtured the language with love and for whom it was the mark of a cultivated man, the language has survived and developed. It is now the cultural legacy of India and the adopted national identity of Pakistan, and significant new literature has emerged in both countries.

Literary centre: Deccan, Delhi and Lucknow