Introducing Razia, 2nd novel by award-nominated author Abda Khan
Ravi Magazine is delighted to introduce Razia, the second novel by award-nominated author Abda Khan. Below is her letter explaining the plot and how you can...
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Devil [Evil, Iblees] in the triangle of Rumi, Goethe and Iqbal
Devil in the triangle of Rumi, Goethe and Iqbal Dr. Javid Iqbal Journal of the Iqbal Academy Pakistan October 2001 – Volume: 42 – Number:...
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Rumi’s Shrine [Mevlana Museum] in Konya, Turkey.
Allama Iqbal expressed his gratitude and reverence for Mevlana Rumi, in many places, which includes his Poem ‘Letter from Europe’ about Rumi from Baal-e-Jibreel....
Apna Gareban Chaak: Dr. Justice Javed Iqbal Autobiography on Allama Iqbal
Apna Gareban Chaak is the autobiography [Sawan-e-Umri] of Dr. Justice Javed Iqbal, which is also regarded as the most authentic and well observed biography of...
Abda Khan Shortlisted for Nat West Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2017
British Lawyer turned writer ABDA KHAN Shortlisted for NatWest Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2017 in the Arts & Culture category. Abda Khan is a Solicitor...
Short Excerpt by Bina Shah: The 786 Cybercafe on Tariq Road
Short excerpt from Bina Shah’s book ‘The 786 Cyber Cafe’. Pages 315, PaperBack, ISBN 969-516-146-4. Pakistan had been created in order to make a homeland...
Allama Iqbal’s Javed Nama in Arabic
Allama Iqbal’s Javed Nama is considered the Big 4 of Persian mystic Literature, the other three being Hafiz’s Diwan, Saadi’s Gulistan, and Rumi’s Masnavi...
Alexander the Great: In Kalam-e-Iqbal
Alexander the Great was born in Macedon in Greece in 356 B.C. On the death of his father Philip he came to the throne of...
Ravi Magazine interviews Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan
Interview with Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan Our music industry has many rock-stars and many Ustaads of classical music. But then there is one and only...
Dr. Javed Iqbal and Muneera Iqbal over the years
Academics agree that to comprehend Rumi’s life, it is key to refer to his son Sultan Walad’s writings. In the same vein, to understand Allama Iqbal,...
غزل ۔ ندا فاضلی : Ghazal by Nida Fazli
غزل ۔ ندا فاضلی دھوپ میں نکلو گھٹاؤں میں نہا کر دیکھو زندگی کیا ہے کتابوں کو ہٹا کر دیکھو صرف آنکھوں سے ہی دنیا...
Aristotle: In Kalam of Allama Iqbal
Aristotle was born in Stagira in Greece in 384 B.C. At the age of eighteen he went to Athens to study in Plato’s...
Why I Write Short Fiction Stories? (Main Afsana Kyonkar Likhta Hoon) – Manto
Why I Write Short Fiction Stories? (Main Afsana Kyonkar Likhta Hoon) – Saadat Hasan Manto In 1952, on invitation of Goverment College Lahore (Now GCU),...
Socrates: In Kalam of Allama Iqbal
Socrates was born in 469 BC and lived through the golden age of Athens. In the early years he saw military service, but then...
Ye Sehar Jo Kabhi Farda Hai Kabhi Hai Amroz – Allama Iqbal poem from Zard-e-Kaleem
یہ سحر جو کبھی فردا ہے کبھی ہے امروز نہیں معلوم کہ ہوتی ہے کہاں سے پیدا وہ سحر جس سے لرزتا ہے شبستان وجود...
Noam Chomsky: “Confronting Empire”, Review Of Eqbal Ahmad’s Interviews With David Barsamian’
Noam Chomsky is author of many world-acclaimed hooks on linguistics and politics. He teaches linguistics at Massachusetts Institute oj Technology Inevitably reading Eqbal Ahmad’s...
جناب ندا فاضلی مرحوم کی یاد میں: Remembering Nida Fazli
جناب ندا فاضلی مرحوم کی یاد میں از کاوش عباسی دل کو بہت پیارے جناب ندا فاضلی ہمارے تازہ عہد کے سب سے بڑے...
Bartari Hari: In Kalam of Dr. Allama Iqbal – By Prof. M. Hassan
Bartari Hari was an ancient king of Malwa. In youth the Raja was devoted to luxury, wine, and women. He had a beautiful queen who...
Bano Appa [Bano Qusdia], another famous Ravian, passes away
Bano Appa [Bano Qusdia], another famous Ravian, left us yesterday. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un إِنَّا للهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ. Ashfaq Ahmed and Bano Qudsia...
Rabba Sachaya Tu Tay Aakhiya See – Faiz Ahmed Faiz Punjabi Poem
Being a Marxist, Faiz was common man’s poet. He had a unique ability to write verses which started from romanticism but moving towards a...
Buddha: In Kalam of Dr. Muhammad Iqbal – By Prof. M. Hassan
The original name of Buddha was Siddharta Gautama. He was a prince who renounced luxury and took to asceticism. After contemplation for several years, he...
Zoroaster: In Kalam of Allama Iqbal – By Prof. M. Hassan
Iqbal’s book on “The Development of Metaphysics in Persia” begins with an account of Zoroaster. Iqbal introduces Zoroaster in the followlng terms: “To Zoroaster—the...
Adam [Hazrat Aadam A.S.] in Kalam of Allama Iqbal
Adam [Hazrat Aadam A.S.] in Kalam of Allama Iqbal Adam and Eve are the first man and woman according to the Old Testament. The initial...
Allama Iqbal’s poems on Eviction of Adam from Heavens as Earth welcomes him.
Adam and Eve are the first man and woman according to the Old Testament. The initial chapters of ‘Genesis’ tell the story of their creation,...
