Urdu Links
- 786books.com
- We offer a collection of Urdu and English books by Pakistani and
South Asian writers.
- A
Nazm A Month - New nazm posted to the site once a month of visitors to
read. The nazms are in transliterated form (Urdu written in English),
with some pages having links to information about the poets.
- Abel
Driving School - Provides training for new drivers and perspective ADI
Candidates around South Manchester, plus Theory Test and Hazard Perception
books in Urdu.
- About
Hindi-Urdu - Discusses the history of these two speech forms,
essentially considering them as versions of the same language.
- Adult
Basic Education Society - A non-profit Pakistani organisation focusing
on producing adult literacy material, including textbooks/primers,
audio-visual material and teacher training programmes. Their programme is
especially useful as they have made their material available in Urdu
(Pakistan's main language).
- Ahmed
Faraz - A couple of his poems in Urdu, with a short note on the
poet.
- Al
Huda Books - Offers a range of DVDs, CDs and books on Islamic topics in
English and Urdu. Online shopping.
- Albalagh
Bookstore - Online shopping for Islamic interest books - includes
Arabic, Urdu and English materials.
- All
about Baloch and Balochistan - A comprehensive range of information and
photos on Baloch and Balochistan including people, history, culture,
tradition, daily news and views in English, Balochi, Farsi and Urdu
languages.
- Alliance
for South Asian AIDS Prevention - A support organization for South
Asians infected with and affected by HIV. Services are available in
languages including Tamil, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi and include
preventative education, support, outreach, and advocacy.
- Alliance
for South Asian AIDS Prevention - A support organization for South
Asians infected with and affected by HIV. Services are available in
languages including Tamil, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi and include
preventative education, support, outreach, and advocacy.
- ApniUrdu
- Translates English sentences to Urdu in Unicode or PNG format.
Support for tenses but not for questions.
- Atul's
World - Homepage of Atul Puri, with Hindi and Urdu sher, friends
listing and photos of India.
- Autorijschool
Arjana - Contactgegevens, tarieven. Spreekt ook Pashtu, Engels, Urdu,
Pakistaans en Farsi.
- Axis
Computers - Develops InPage publishing software that supports Unicode
and handles Urdu, Arabic, Persian, English and other language.
Product overview, FAQs, and purchasing information. Located in Mumbai,
India.
- Bærum
bibliotek - Informasjon om arrangementer og utstillinger i biblioteket.
Boktips fra bibliotekarene. Biblioteket har en flerspråklig samling på
blant annet arabisk, albansk og urdu.
- Balkatha
- Bilingual stories in Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali,
and Urdu.
- Bhatkal
Site by Syed Abubaker Maliki - Information on the town and its culture
and history, in Urdu and English.
- Channel
18 KSCI-TV - Provides news, sports, dramas and entertainment in 14
languages that include Arabic, Armenian, Chinese Cantonese, Chinese
Mandarin, English, Farsi, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer (Cambodian),
Korean, Tagalog (Filipino), Urdu (Pakistani), and Vietnamese.
- Dabistan-e-Urdu
- Archives of Urdu poetry in Urdu. GIF files have been used
mostly. Parts of the archive require installation of UmairI font.
- Daily
Khabrain Pakistan - Second largest Urdu newspaper. Simultaneously
published from Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi and Multan.
- Danial
- Profile, weblog and photos; in Karachi, Pakistan. (Urdu
translation)
- Darululoom
Deoband - Official site of the Islamic seminary. Includes the history
and schools of thought including education and the freedom fight.
[English/Arabic/Urdu]
- Department
of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - A department in the
Division of Humanities that offers instruction in two classical languages
(Sanskrit and Pali), six modern (Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Tamil, Tibetan and
Urdu) and courses that place their literatures and cultures in
critical and comparative contexts.
- DesiConnection:
The Ghazal - Presents a short article on the history of both the Urdu
and English ghazal, emphasizing the problems of the latter.
- DesiStuff
- Offers a selection of books (in English and Urdu), videos, audio
resources, and gifts.
- Dr
Ausaf Sayeed's Home Page - Personal website with articles and accounts
of culture and heritage, Hyderabadis in the Middle East, Andhra Pradesh, and
links to Urdu pages.
- DVD
Quran - Offers recitation of the Qur'an, with Arabic text, and English
and Urdu translations on DVD. Includes ordering instructions.
- eBazm
- Archives of urdu ghazals and hindi poetry. Urdu dictionary
with more than 10,000 words.
- Fact
- The FACT English and FACT Urdu are magazines for hard investigative
reporting.Fact Publications publish books on unique topics.
- Faiz
Ahmed Faiz - Official site of the Faiz Foundation with information about
the Urdu poet and his work, and also about the Foundation.
- Gernot
Katzer's Spice Pages - With pictures. Botanical family, geographic
origin, etymology, chemical constituents, usage. Latin, Amharic, Arabic,
Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech,
Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German,
Greek, Gujrati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Lithuanian, Khmer, Laotian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian, Pashto,
Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Singhalese, Slovak,
Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu.
- Ghalib:
Poet and Poetry - Resource on this 19th century Urdu poet.
Features his selected verses in Urdu with English translation and
illustrations.
- Government
Comprehensive School, Multan - Government Comprehensive School , Multan
was established in 1966 with collaboration of U.S.A. It was named for
Quality Education in Urdu Medium. Such Schools were opened at each
District Headquarter around the Pakistan.
- Habib
Jalib: Ten Poems - From Urdu and Punjabi, these are poems of late
1960s and early 1970s by this "People's Poet". Original text is
given alongside in roman script.
- Haj
Committee (India) - Information about the Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah
including a training manual, audio, and picture gallery. Also offers travel
arrangement services. Content available in English, Hindi and Urdu.
- Hindi-Urdu
FAQ - Similarities, differences, origins, and political status of the
two languages.
- Holy
Quran - Sells software featuring Urdu and English translations
and Arabic recitation of the Quran.
- Idara.com
- Printers, publishers, booksellers and exporters of Holy Quran and
authentic Islamic Books in English, Arabic, Urdu, Spanish.
- Iftikhar
Arif - A couple of his poems in Urdu, with a short note on the
poet.
- Ikram's
Universe - Pakistani final year medical student. Has pages about
Pakistan, women, love, pictures, Eastern traditions, culture, Urdu
poetry and his own romantic novel.
- Invitation
Towards Allah - Ahmadiyyat (real Islam) is the only sure path to God.
The Promised Messiah has come. Writings of Imam Mahdi in English, Urdu,
and Arabic. Heavenly signs. Articles on Jesus, the 72 sects, the finality of
Prophethood.
- Islamic
Academy - A wide range of resources to enable Muslims to learn more
about their faith; includes articles, audio files, fatwas, also a calendar
and date converter. In English and Urdu.
- Islamic
Imagination - A collection of Islamic calligraphy in Arabic, Urdu
and Roman scripts, font design, graphics, and fractals. Also offers a forum.
- Islamic
names in Urdu - Browse to the letter of your choice and find a
list of names starting with that letter.
- Jabran,
Fazal - [Bologna] - Traduzione e interpretariato dall'italiano all'urdu
e viceversa eseguite da madrelingua Pakistano
- Junior
Books - Online sales of Islamic books; includes important texts,
religious subjects, history, children's books, in Arabic, Urdu,
Indonesian and English.
- Khanqah
Imdadiya Ashrafiya - A spiritual center in Karachi, Pakistan, in the
tradition of the Ehl-e-Haq (Truth Bearers); offers a profile, audio
resources, and texts in English and Urdu
- Kishwar
Naheed - Four Urdu poems, in romanized script, by this feminist
poet and activist.
- Lafz
- Urdu Words and Their Meanings - Daily e-mail newsletter helps
subscribers build vocabulary by sending a word each day, not in Urdu
script, with definition and a sher (couplet) where the word has been used.
Alphabetical archives included.
- Langoo.com
- Langoo.com is a free web based communication portal that offers email,
chat, business cards, faxing in your native language. Languages currently
supported are: English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu,
Gujarati.
- LanguageLink
- A community translation and interpretation enterprise offering a fast,
efficient and cost-effective service specialising in: Urdu, Bengali,
Somalia and Arabic.
- Lawyers
for Human Rights and Legal Aid - Nonprofit working in human rights in
Pakistan. Includes current project, links, resources and internship
opportunities. Content also available in Urdu.
- Market
Place Salon and Day Spa - Aveda salon with a multi-lingual staff
speaking English, Spanish, Persian and Urdu. Includes menu of hair,
skin, and body treatments, as well as contact and event information.
- Mehfil-e-Mushaira
- Audio clips of Urdu poetry by some great poets of our time. Poets
include Ahmed Faraz, Manzar Bhopali, Pirzada Qasim, John Elia, Nawaz
Deobandi, and Shahida Hasan. RealPlayer.
- Mehfil-e-Mushaira
- Real audio clips of Urdu poetry, in the original language, and some
script.
- Motso
- Translation in Bengali, Hindi, Panjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, and other
Indian languages.
- Mousawi
Islamic library - Provides Islamic books & CDs in Arabic,
English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Urdu and Persian.
- Muhammad
Iqbal - Well-designed presentation of the poet's Urdu verses.
- Multilinguist
World - Translation and web site localisation in Urdu, Dari,
Farsi, Pashto, Arabic and the four dialects of Baluchi. Agency based in
India.
- Mustafa
Zaidi - This Asian poetry site has a couple of poems by Zaidi, as well
as an "Elegy" for him by Salam Machhli-Shahri, from Urdu.
- Naat
e Rasool - Providing downloads and links to Pakistani and Urdu
audio naats.
- National
Archives of India - Repository of all non-current records of the
Government of India, held in trust for the use of administrators and
scholars. Regular series date from 1748 to the near present, thought the
collection includes some older documents as well. Included are public
records, manuscripts and private papers in English, Arabic, Hindi, Persian,
Sanskrit, Modi, Urdu and other languages.
- NativeNames
- California based company accpeting registrars for multilingual domain
names in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Cyrillic languages. Fully
Multilingual domains with its own Top Level Domains and DNS service.
- Nawae
Tokyo - Magazine for Pakistanis in Tokyo. Pakistani news, information
and features in English and Urdu.
- Nita's
Urdu Poetry Archive - Ghazals, nazms and other forms of Urdu
poetry in transliterated form (Urdu written in English). Indexed by
poet name and alphabetically for easy access. Includes a text based search
engine.
- Noore
Madinah Network - Articles, e-books and other documents, videos, audio
files, Quran resources, images, and bookstore. Some resources also available
in Urdu.
- OzeVision
- Translation in Urdu, Norwegian and English. Freelancer Faiza Syed,
based in Australia.
- Pakistan
Data Management Services - PDMS has experience in developing complex
software for use in a variety of application domains. Developer of Urdu
desktop publishing software.
- Pharos
Media and Publishing - Booksellers of Islamic books in English, Arabic, Urdu,
according to Quran and Sunnah .Islamic gifts,audio,video, and software on
Islam.
- Phool
- Urdu Childrens magazine.
- Poems
by Munir Niazi and Others - Punjabi and Urdu poems in English
translation, as well as original Punjabi and Urdu poems, by various
authors. (Click "Poetry" on the main page.)
- Poetry--Old
and New - A multi-purpose site with poetry in Urdu and some
humorous verse in Urdu and Punjabi.
- Qadiani
Beliefs Refuted (by Lahoris) - The beliefs of the Qadiani Ahmadiyya
Movement refuted by the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of
Islam - Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at-e-Islam Lahore. Contains books, articles,
and sound / audio files (RealAudio). Both in English and Urdu.
- Qawallis
and Folk Songs of Amir Khusro - Urdu/Hindi qawaalis by Amir
Khusro, a 13th century sufi poet from Delhi. The lyrics are provided in Urdu
font (GIFs), as well as in transliterated and translated forms.
- RabtPad
- A Java and Unicode based text editor for arabic based scripts including Urdu
with, import export, virtual keyboard, configurable keyboard mapping, export
to RTF, HTML and PDF. [GPL]
- Riffat
Murtaza - The author's own short stories in Urdu and English,
with texts and links to other works in Urdu and other languages.
- Risala
Roohi Sharif - Online text (in Farsi) and translations (English and Urdu)
of "The Book of Soul", by Hazrat Sultan Bahu, a 17th century Sufi.
Includes audio samples.
- SACHET
- Society for Advancement of Community Health, Education ,and Training.
Health news and updates. Discusses gender role dimension and has web columns
on various health issues in both English and Urdu.
- Sada
e Pakistan - Non-profit Urdu radio show airs weekly on WRSU 88.7
FM, New Brunswick.
- Saqi
Farooqi - An Urdu poem (nazam verse-form) for Urdu
readers, accompanied by graphics.
- Screen
Savers - Islamic screen savers, Naats, Fitna-e-dajal Hadish ki rosnimain
in Urdu and also Hajj ka safer in English and Urdu, and Tables
for children.
- Seshendra:
Visionary Poet of the Millennium - Seshendra is a trendsetter both in
poetry and criticism, occupies a place of crucial importance in the
development and evolution of Modern Indian literature. His books have been
translated into English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Kannada, and Greek
- Shaakh-e-Zaitoon
- The homepage of Rauf Khalish, a poet. Some of the content is in Urdu.
- Shaista
Ikramullah - This is a sketch of a woman parliamentarian who also wrote
prose works in English and Urdu.
- Sistani.org
- Official site of the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani includes
biography, works, Islamic law, Q&A, Hajj rituals, institutions and
social services. [Arabic, English, French, Farsi, Urdu].
- sistani.org
- Official site of the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid, Ali Husaini Sistani includes
biography, works, Islamic law, Q&A, Hajj rituals, institutions and
social services. [Arabic, English, French, Farsi, Urdu]
- Sistani.org
- Official site of the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid, Ali Husaini Sistani includes
biography, works, Islamic law, Q&A, Hajj rituals, institutions and
social services. [Arabic, English, French, Farsi, Urdu].
- Sony
Entertainment Television - Family entertainment from South Asia with
movies, drama, comedies and thrillers in Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati,
plus news, sports and music. Features channel information and highlights.
Available on Sky, Telewest and NTL.
- South
Asian Woman's Forum (SAWF) - Poetry forum and discussion board in
English, Hindi, Urdu and Gurati.
- Speedy
Translations - Translation in Arabic, Urdu, Italian, English,
Bengali, Dari, Persian, German, French and Chinese.
- Speedy
Translations - Translation in Arabic, Urdu, Italian, English,
Bengali, Dari, Persian, German, French and Chinese.
- Summitsoft
- Creates Arabic-English and Urdu-English documents for Windows
platforms. Also, developers of Arabic Edit and Urdu Edit ActiveX
controls.
- Sweet
Pakistani Teens Jeans - Message board aimed at Pakistani teenagers. Also
provides chat, recipes, pictures, and articles and poetry in English and Urdu.
- Ta'leem-ul-Islam
- A translation of books (in Urdu) by Allaama Mufti Muhammad
Kifaayatullah to introduce the beliefs and practices of Islam at the level
of a beginner.
- Tauheed
Wa Sunnat Audio - Tauheed Wa Sunnat Audio and video site of bayan
taqreers naats hamd nazm, online books in english and urdu.
- The
Book Centre - Publications, cassettes, CDs and videos in Urdu,
English, Arabic, Punjabi, Hindi and Bengali; also Asian clothing. Catalogue,
location and contact details.
- The
Book Group - Urdu story books and textbooks for children,
colourfully illustrated.
- The
Light of Golra Sharif - Biography of Ala-Hazrat Syedna Pir Meher Ali
Shah (R.A) of Golra Sharif, his son. Also includes information about his
writings, and ceremonies held at the Golra shrine. [English and Urdu]
- Urdu
98 - Use urdu font in windows applications, including making web
pages in Urdu font; works only with the IExplorer.
- Urdu
Adab - Short stories and poems in Urdu script.
- Urdu
Corner - Offers a collection of Urdu books in a number of
subjects. Includes facilities for ordering online. English and Urdu
content.
- Urdu
Hi Urdu - A large list of links related to Urdu and Urdu
poetry.
- Urdu
literary magazine - Contains four Urdu literary magazines, KAINAAT, URDU WORLD,
URDU MAHYA and ADABI ALBUM in which short
stories, fictions, poetries, dramas, pictures and Interviews of top Urdu
writers are published.
- Urdu
Manzil - Site in Urdu that promotes the use of Urdu
worldwide.
- Urdu
Prosody - Presents technical details of Urdu prosody as
applicable to the ghazal form. Also includes the various rubA'I meters.
- Urduseek.com
Urdu English Dictionary - First Online English to Urdu
dictionary where users can view Urdu meanings in Urdu font.
This dictionary also provides english to urdu, urdu to english
word search. (Urdu Nastaliq)
- Urdustan.com:
Urdu Portal - World's first Urdu portal, with free e-mail,
web directory, message board, Urdu poetry, ghazals, and information
about poets and writers.
- UrduWord.com
- Searchable English to Urdu dictionary. Displays Urdu script
without requiring fonts. Also has an Urdu Word-of-the-Day feature and
interactive Urdu content for other people to place on their website.
(Urdu Naskh, Roman Urdu)
- Utamaduni
Dance Troupe, Denmark - An African performing troupe composed of Danish
and Tanzanian artists who perform and teach African dance and drumming
workshops all over Europe and produce a yearly summer dance camp.[Danish/English/Swaheli/Urdu].
- Vinay's
Hindi/Urdu Poetry Page - Selected ashaar by various Urdu
poets.
- Virtual
Reality's Utopia - Page of Anwar-ul-Islam Qureshi, a Computer Science
Student at Queens College, New York. The site contains background music,
information about Islam, Urdu, his friends and his work.
- Welcome
Book Port - An English website selling Urdu books online. A large
collection divided into 18 sections. Free Shipping in Pakistan.
- Write
Arabic Group - Non-profit organization based in England, providing
software for the teaching and writing of Arabic and Urdu.
- Zackvision
- Daily weblog of a doctoral student at Georgia Tech in both English and Urdu.
- Zeeshan
Sahil - Sahil's "Bookworms" has been translated from his Urdu
text.