Literature
& Literary Criticism
Books (English)
Abdullah Hussein: From Sad
Generations to a Lonely Tiger,
South Asian Centre, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 1985
Reprinted as Abdullah Hussein: The Chronicler of Sad Generations, Leo Books,
Islamabad, 1993
Edited Works (English)
Pakistani Literature (ed.) vol. 1, 2 and 4
The Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad 1992-93
Colours of Loneliness
An anthology of Pakistani Literature, Oxford University Press, 1999
Shorter Writings
“Gabriel Garcia Marquez C Winner of 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, Nov. 26, 1982
“Abdullah Hussein and Elias Canetti: My Obsession with their
Obsessions”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, May 20, 1983
“Fiction Minus Fantastic”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, August 5, 1983
“Jaroslav Seifert C Winner of 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, Dec. 6, 1984
“Faruq Hassan’s Nai Purani Nazmain”
Annual of Urdu Studies, Chicago, No. 5, 1985, pp. 130-136
“Abdullah Hussein: Night and Other Stories”
World Literature Today, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, Spring 1985, p. 320
“Nabokov on Russian Masters”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, Jan. 25, 1985
“Thus Spoke the Master”
Urdu Canada, Ottawa, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1986, pp. 90-95
“Urdu’s Tacit Lover”
Annual of Urdu Studies, Chicago, No. 6, 1987, pp. 116-129
“Urdu Calligrapher in the Computer”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, Oct. 30, 1987
“Urdu in Canada: A Plea to the Urdu Speaking Population of Canada”
In Across Continents: A Review of
Urdu Language and Literature in Canada National Federation of Pakistani
Canadians, Ottawa, Canada, 1988
“Time Through the Ages”
(Chapters three and four of a novel) in Annual of Urdu Studies, Chicago, No. 7, 1990, pp. 53-61
“Strange Case of Quratul Ain Hyder”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, May 26, 1989
“Farewell to a Generation”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, Feb. 17, 1989
“The Slow Wilting of Innocence”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, Dec. 8, 1989
“Developments in Urdu Software”
The Pakistan Times, Lahore, June 8, 1990
Jang-e Azadi Sey Hasooley
Azadi Tak (A
book on the history of Pakistan Movement) Sang-e Meel Publishers, Lahore, 1977
Inkhilac (Uprooting) Book I of a Trilogy entitled Exiles, The Circle, Lahore,
1988
Inqtac (Severance) Book II of the Trilogy (Exiles)Leo
Books, Islamabad, 1994
Diwan-al-Hallaj (Arabic text with Urdu translation, introduction and notes), Danyal,
Karachi, 1997
Herman Melville: Life and Works Serialized in Savera, Lahore, 1995-98
Miscellaneous
More than fifty literary articles and short stories in Urdu published in various journals in Pakistan, India and Canada.
Unpublished
Works
Khutbaat-e Gharb
Thirteen Khutbaat delivered at
the Islamic Centre Mosque, Saskatoon, Sask. (1990-1995)
Reflections on Islam and Muslims Collection of articles (1990-1996)
Works
in Progress
Dawn in Madinah: A
Pilgrim’s Passage
Muhammad Asad: A Biography
Beyond the Second Invasion: Islam and Muslims in the Twenty-first Century
Intellectual History of Islam
Inqtaf (The Gleaning), Book III of the Trilogy, Exiles ( in Urdu)