http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/-t1.htm Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:04:19 GMT 10 http://illiweb.com/fa/extremedarkred/logo.jpg http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/-t1.htm http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/shah-abdul-latif-t14.htm MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR Shah Abdul Latif, The Spiritual Poet "Shah Jo Risalo Shah Abdul Latif, a great scholar, saint and spiritual poet, was born in Hala Haveli near the Khatiyan village of Hyderabad District, Sindh in 1689. His ancestral roots lay in Afghanistan. It is said that the Shah's father, Syed Habib Shah, had migrated from Matyaru, his ancestral home in Afghanistan to Bhainpur in Sindh, in order to gain spiritual contact with Bilawal, a local pious man. Abdul Latif received ... ROLE MODELS IN LITERATURE Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:04:19 GMT http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/shah-abdul-latif-t14.htm#14 http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/shah-abdul-latif-t14.htm http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/khushal-khan-khattak-t13.htm MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR Khushal Khan Khattak Khushal Khan Khattak (1613 - 1690) was a famous Pashtun (Afghan) warrior, poet and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote in Pashtu during the reign of the Mughal (Mongol) emperors in the seventeenth century, and admonished Afghans to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite to regain the strength and glory they once possessed. A renowned fighter who became known as the "Afghan Warrior Poet", he lived in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains. Khushal ... ROLE MODELS IN LITERATURE Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:55:00 GMT http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/khushal-khan-khattak-t13.htm#13 http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/khushal-khan-khattak-t13.htm http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/bulle-shah-t12.htm MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR Bulleh Shah (1680-1758): Leading light of Punjab By Safir Rammah Bulleh Shah (1680-1758) and Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810) shared the same time and space - eighteenth century Northern India - and were amongst the major poets of their respective languages. They had both lived during the time just before the proliferation of the printing press, state-sponsored educational institutions and standardized textbooks. Today, it is hard to find an educated Pakistani with any level of interest in literature ... ROLE MODELS IN LITERATURE Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:47:39 GMT http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/bulle-shah-t12.htm#12 http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/bulle-shah-t12.htm http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/iqbal-a-bridge-between-east-west-t8.htm MAJOR(R)KHALID NASR Iqbal: A bridge between East and the West By Saeed A. Durrani, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, England In speaking on the above theme, one cannot do better than to start by quoting one of Iqbal’s own couplets. “The dervish imbued with the spirit of God is neither of the East nor of the West. My home is neither Delhi, nor Isfahan, nor yet Samarkand.” Baal-i-Jibril (Gabriel’s Wing), p.357* One is also put in mind of Iqbal’s inscription ... ROLE MODELS IN LITERATURE Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:32:02 GMT http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/iqbal-a-bridge-between-east-west-t8.htm#8 http://pakteahouse.forumotion.com/role-models-in-literature-f13/iqbal-a-bridge-between-east-west-t8.htm