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Halqa-e Arbab-e Zauq (Urdu: حلقہ ارباب ذوق, lit. 'Circle of the Men of Good Taste') is a Pakistani literary movement begun in Lahore, British Punjab, India on 29 April 1939. [1] Early members included Urdu language poets Noon Meem Rashid, Qayyum Nazar, and Meeraji, the latter of whom was invited by Nazar.
Islam and Modernism (Urdu: اسلام اور جدت پسندی) is a book originally written in Urdu by Pakistani scholar Taqi Usmani on Islam and modernity. The original title is "Islam aur Jiddat Pasandi". Two years later it was translated into English with the title Islam and Modernism. It was first published in 1990. [1]
Islamic modernism is a movement that has been described as "the first Muslim ideological response to the Western cultural challenge", [Note 1] attempting to reconcile the Islamic faith with values perceived as modern such as democracy, civil rights, rationality, equality, and progress. [2]
The first Urdu translation of the Kural text was by Hazrat Suhrawardy, a professor of Urdu Department of Jamal Mohammad College, Tiruchirappalli. [1] It was published by Sahitya Academy in 1965, with a reprint in 1994. The translation is in prose and is not a direct translation from Tamil but based on English translations of the original.
On 9 January 1864 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan formed a translation society called Scientific Society at Ghazipur with the goal of translating scientific books of English and other European languages into Urdu and Hindi. [2] The first meeting was held in January 1864 under the president ship of Mr. A. B. Spate, the then Collector of Ghazipur. [3]
The first modern Turkish chemistry text was published in 1848, and the first modern Biology text in 1865. [13] Eventually, the Turks adopted the metric system in 1869. The key figure in the Turkish modernist movement was Namık Kemal, the editor of a journal called Freedom.
Syed Ahmad Saeed Kazmi (13 March 1913 – 4 June 1986, Urdu: سید احمد سعید کاظمی) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and Sufi who belonged to the Barelvi movement of Sunni Islam. [1] He migrated to Multan in 1935 from Amroha.
Tafseer-e-Usmani or Tarjuma Shaykh al-Hind (Urdu: تفسیر عثمانی , ترجمۂ شیخ الہند) is an Urdu translation and interpretation of the Quran. It was named after its primary author, Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, who began the translation in 1909. Shabbir Ahmad Usmani later joined him to complete the exegesis. The translation has ...