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Filed under: Urdu poetry

Bazm-i k̲h̲ayāl (Ṣiddīq Buk Ḍipo, 1918), by Ṣafdar Mirzāpūrī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Riyāz̤-i Lat̤āfat : [dīvān] (Mat̤ba’-i Shaukat Ja’frī, 1887), by Sayyid Ḥasan Lat̤āfat (page images at HathiTrust)
Āb-i baqā (Qutbuddin Aḥmad, 1918), by Muḥammad Abdurraʾūf Ishrat and Mīrzā Jaʻfar ʻAlī Nishrat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dīvān-i Shahīdī (Mat̤baʻ-i Asadī, 1873), by Karāmat ʻAlī Ḵẖān Shahīdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Kissah-ī kāmrūp v kalā. (1835), by Taḣsīn al-Dīn and M. Garcin de Tassy (page images at HathiTrust)
Dīvān-i Taslīm (Mat̤baʻ-i Nāmī, 1903), by Amīrullāh Taslīm Lakhnavī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Masnavī-i Badr-i Munīr (1842), by Mīr Ḥasan maulavī, Kābī Parshād, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Barq-i Lāmi' (1827), by Sayid Mīr K̲h̲ān and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Zīnat al-K̲h̲ail (880-03 Lucknow : Munshī Naval Kishor, 1250 [1835], 1835), by Muḥammad Mahdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Dīvān-i Jān Ṣāḥib. (1839), by Mīr Yār ʻAlī Jān Ṣāḥib, Mīr Bāz 'Alī, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Padmāvat. (1822), by active 1540 Malika Mohammada Jāyasī, Z̤iyāʼuddīn ʻIbrat, Mīr G̲h̲ulām ʿAlī ʿIshrat Barelvī, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Dīvān-i Nāsik̲h̲. (1855), by Imām Bak̲h̲sh Nāsik̲h̲, Mamlūk Khawjah Muḥammad Dārāb 'Alī k̲h̲ān, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Raeburn. ([1915], 1915), by 'Ishrat Ḥusein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Āb-i ḥayāt : yaʻnī mashāhīr shuʻra-yi Urdū ke savāniḥ ʻumrī aur zabān-i mazkūr kī ʻahd baʻahd kī taraqīyon̲ aur iṣlāḥon̲ kā bayān (Rafāh-yi ʻĀm Iṣṭīm Pres, 1913), by Muḥammad Ḥusain Āzād (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Urdu poetry -- 19th century

Taz̲kirah-yi Shamīm sak̲h̲un ... (Munshī Naval Kishaur, 1891), by Abdul Hai Safa (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Urdu poetry -- History and criticism

Gul-i raʻnā (Dārulmuṣannifīn?, 1922), by Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ḥayy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Zabān-i Reḵẖtah : risālah dar taḥqīq-i zabān-i Urdū-yi muʻallā (Mat̤baʻ-i Munshī Naval Kishor, 1874), by ʻAbdulg̲h̲afūr Nassāk̲h̲ (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Urdu poetry -- Translations into English

Hindustani lyrics (The Sufi publishing society, ltd., 1919), by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Hindustani Lyrics, trans. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Urdu poetry -- Translations into German

Bemerkungen zur Verskunst im Urdū (Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1893), by Hubert Jansen, Amānat, and Florence Società asiatica italiana (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Didactic poetry, Urdu

Lail o nahār (Mat̤baʻ Faiz̤-i ʻĀm, 1914), by Aḥmad ʻAlī Shauq (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Elegiac poetry, Urdu

Fikr-i balīg̲h̲ (Mat̤baʻ-i Sulaimānī, 1929), by Shād ʻAz̤īmābādī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Elegiac poetry, Urdu -- India -- Lucknow

Fikr-i balīg̲h̲ (Mat̤baʻ-i Sulaimānī, 1929), by Shād ʻAz̤īmābādī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Islamic poetry, Urdu

Qaṣāʾid-i mubārak. (s.n., 1900), by King of Oudh Wajid ʻAli Shah (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Narrative poetry, Urdu

Naẓm-i sirāj : naẓmiyyah tarjumah ḥadīson̲ kā (1848), by Imāmuddīn and Muḥammad Ḥusain (page images at HathiTrust)
Shāhnāmah-yi Urdū. (880-03 [Lakhnaʼū?] : Naval Kishor, [18--?], in the 19th century), by Firdawsī (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Qasidas, Urdu

Majmūʻah-yi qaṣāʼid-i Mumin (al-Nāẓir Pres, 1925), by Z̤iyāʼ Aḥmad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Shiite poetry, Urdu

Kitāb maʻārij al-faz̤āʾil dar muʻjazāt-i aʾimmah as̲nā ʻashar. (Sult̤ān al-Mat̤ābiʻ, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Sufi poetry, Urdu

Maqāmāt-i Ḥamīdī ka tarjamah (Karīmī Prēs :, 1928), by -1163 or 1164 Ḥamīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd and Sayyid Aulād Ḥasan Shādān̲ Bilgrāmī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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Filed under: Urdu literature

Intik̲h̲āb-i Āl-i Aḥmad Surūr (Lāhaur Ikaiḍamī, 1900), by Al-i-Ahmad Suroor and Faqīr Aḥmad Faiṣal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Munāẓirah-yi taqdīr-o-tadbīr, maʻrūf bih kunzulfavāʼid. (K̲h̲ādimuttaʻlīm Isṭīm Pres, 1904), by Sayyid Aḥmad Dihlavī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Masnavī-i Badr-i Munīr (1842), by Mīr Ḥasan maulavī, Kābī Parshād, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Zīnat al-K̲h̲ail (880-03 Lucknow : Munshī Naval Kishor, 1250 [1835], 1835), by Muḥammad Mahdī (page images at HathiTrust)
Dīvān-i Jān Ṣāḥib. (1839), by Mīr Yār ʻAlī Jān Ṣāḥib, Mīr Bāz 'Alī, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Dīvān-i Nāsik̲h̲. (1855), by Imām Bak̲h̲sh Nāsik̲h̲, Mamlūk Khawjah Muḥammad Dārāb 'Alī k̲h̲ān, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Raeburn. ([1915], 1915), by 'Ishrat Ḥusein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Āb-i ḥayāt : yaʻnī mashāhīr shuʻra-yi Urdū ke savāniḥ ʻumrī aur zabān-i mazkūr kī ʻahd baʻahd kī taraqīyon̲ aur iṣlāḥon̲ kā bayān (Rafāh-yi ʻĀm Iṣṭīm Pres, 1913), by Muḥammad Ḥusain Āzād (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Urdu literature -- History and criticism

Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Frances W. Pritchett (HTML at UC Press)
The influence of English literature on Urdu literature. (F. Groom, 1924), by Syed Abdul Latif (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Urdu literature -- Periodicals

The Annual of Urdu Studies (partial serial archives)
al-Hilāl. (Uttar Pradesh Urdū Akādmī, 1912), by Abūlkalām Āzād and Uttar Pradesh Urdū Akāḍmī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
al-Hil⁻al : 1912-1927. (Uttar Pradesh Urd⁻u Ak⁻adm⁻i, 1988) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Urdu literature -- Translations into English

Kalām-i Urdū, revised; being selections for the Urdu proficiency examination, translated into English with copious notes, explanations, derivations (Calcutta, 1918), by Maulavī Muhammad Yūsuf Jaʾfarī and Munshī shahābuddīn Ahmad Siddīqi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Folk literature, Urdu

Maz̲hab-i ʻishq (Lith'd at the Hindoostanee Press., 1843), by active approximately 1712 Izzatullah, Nihāl Cand, and John Borthwick Gilchrist (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Shiite literature

al-Jild al-khāmis min Kitāb-i Kashkūl. (1800), by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ʻĀmilī and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Sufi literature

Tarjumah-ʼi Khulāṣat al-mafākhir. (1700), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad Yāfiʻī and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
[Shāh va Darvīsh]. (1700), by Dadr al-Dīn Hilālī and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
Tez̤kiret ül-evliyā'. (1730), by Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Terceme-i Risāle-i Ḳudsiye. (in the 18th century), by 'Abdullāh Ṣalāḥī 'Uṣṣāḳī and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Midḥat-i Jināb-i Sayyid al-Afrād wa Ikrām al-Aqtāb. (880-03 Hayderabad : Maḥbūb Shāhī, 1310 [1892], 1892), by Faqīr and ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (page images at HathiTrust)
Sharḥ al-Shurūḥ Nukhbat al-Fikr : Taṣḥīḥ al-naẓar fī tawḍīḥ nukhbat al-fikr 'alā maṣṭaliḥ-i ahl al-athar (880-03 Lahūr : Muḥammadī, 1308 [1891], 1891), by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Hazāravī (page images at HathiTrust)
Tadhkirat al-abrār va-al-ashrār. (880-03 Dihlī, : Hind va Parīs, 1309 [1892], 1892), by Akhūnd Darvīzhah Tangīnahārī, (page images at HathiTrust)
Gencīne-i rāz. (1593), by Yaḥyā Beg Dukākīnzāde approximately 16th Century and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Awṣāf al-ashrāf. (1650), by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī and McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Şerḥ-i ebyāt-i Yunus Emre. (1850), by McGill University. Institute of Islamic Studies. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Risāle-i Ṣūfīye. (1845), by Ṣādiq and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
Faẓīlatnāme. (1845), by Yemini bin Hafizzade and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
The Mesnevi, by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi, trans. by James W. Redhouse (Gutenberg ebook)

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