Ghubar-e-Khatir

DETAILS : 

• Author : Abul Kalam Azad
  
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mohi Book Publishers
  
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 January 2016
  
• Language ‏ : ‎ Urdu
  
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 700 g

ABOUT THE BOOK

Ghubar-e-Khatir (The Dust of Memories) is considered one of the most significant masterpieces of Urdu literature. It is a collection of 24 letters written by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad between 1942 and 1945 while he was imprisoned by the British at the Ahmednagar Fort following the Quit India Movement. Interestingly, these letters were never actually mailed; they were addressed to his close friend, Habibur Rahman Khan Sherwani, but served as a personal diary and a philosophical outlet for Azad’s brilliant mind during his isolation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maulana Azad was a towering figure in the Indian independence movement, a profound scholar of Islam, and independent India’s first Minister of Education.

The Polymath: He was fluent in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and English, and his writing reflects a synthesis of Eastern philosophy and Western rationalism.

The Journalist: Before his political peak, he founded the influential newspapers Al-Hilal and Al-Balagh.

The Philosopher: In Ghubar-e-Khatir, he steps away from the heat of political oratory to reveal his "inner self"—a man of refined taste, deep loneliness, and unshakable intellectual curiosity.