Basic Urdu and

Comprehension for all

Tests Preparation
 Important Books, Newspapers, Magazines &
Their Authors

• Shahnama-i-Islam is written by Hafeez Jalandhri (Writer of Pakistan National

Anthem)
• Man who ruled India is written by Philip Woodruff.
• Rajneeti: A Biography of Rajnath Singh is written by Gautam Chintamani.
• Bano Qudsia wrote these dramas Aatish-i-Zer-i-Paa, Aik Din, Asay Pasay,
Chahar Chaman, Chhotaa Sheher Baray Log, Footpath ki Ghaas, Haasil Ghaat
and Hawa Kay Naam. The most well-known plays she wrote include Tamasil,
Hawa ke Naam, Seharay and Khaleej. Her most famous novel is Raja Gidh (King
Buzzard) is published in 1981.
• Khilafat-O-Malookeyat, Tauheed aur Rasaalat, Islam aur Jahiliat, Musalmanon
Ka Mazi O Haal aur Mustaqbil, Kuliyat-e-Iqbal, Tafhim-ul-Quran are written by
Syed Maulana Abu Al Maudoodi (Founder of Jamat-e-Islami)
• London ki Aik Raat is written by Sajjad Zaheer
• Al Fouz ul Kabeer, Hujjat ul Baligha are written by Shah Wali Ullah Dehli (1st
person in Subcontinent who translated Quran into Persian)
• Aag ka Dariya is written by Quratul Aain
• Iran main Ajnabi is written by Noon Meem Rashid (full name Nazar
Muhammad Rashid)
• “My life---A Fragment” (An Autobiography Sketch of Maulana Mohd Ali),
Comrade Newspaper (in English), Hamdard Newspaper (in Urdu) are written by
Maulana Mohd Ali Jauhar. He is buried in Jerusalem.
• A Witness to Surrender is written by Brig. Siddiq Salik
• The Interpretation of Dreams is written by Sigmund Freud
• The book “Confession” is written by Rousseau
• History of the Saracens, The spirit of Islam are written by Syed Ameer Ali
• Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah. The Story of a Nation, Mohammad Ali Jinnah are written
by G.Allana.
• Heroes and Hero-Worship is written by Carlyle.
• Foundation of Pakistan is written by Sharifud din Pirzada.
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is written by Edward Fitzgeranld.
• Gitanjali is written by Rabindranath Tagore.
• Gulistan, Bostan are written by Sheikh Saadi
• Kitab al Shifa, Al Qanoon fil Tib (Taught in European Medical Colleges) are
written by Ibn-e- Sina (Avicenna)
• Mirat-ul-Aroos is written by Deputy Nazir Ahmed
• Muqaddamah is written by Ibn-e-Khaldun. He is retired as a judge. He is
considered as the True Founding Father of Modern Sociology
• Muqaddamah Shaer o Shaeri, Yadghar-e-Ghalib (on the life of his Master Mirza
Ghalib), Hayat-e-Sadi (on the life of Sheikh Saadi), Deewan-e-Hali, Mussaddas-i-
Hali (About Maddo Jazar Islam), Hayat-i-Jawed (on the life of Sir Syed Ahmad
Khan), Bewa Ke Munajaat are written by Altaf Hussain Hali
• Chashm-e-Deed is written by Feroz Khan Noon (Former PM of Pakistan)
• Last 323 Days of Bhutto is written by Colonel Rafi Uddin
• Pakistan is Inevitable is written by Syed Hassan Riaz
• Al Jamya-ul-Mufardaat is written by Ibn-e-Baitar
• Aab-e-Hayat, Darbar-i-Akbari are written by Maulana Mohd Hussain Azad
• Undlas Main Ajnabi, Khaana Badosh are written by Mustansir Hussain Taar’r
• Aatish Kadah is written by Dr. Mohd Deen Taa’seer
• Naqsh-e-Faryadi, Sham-e-Shehar-e-Yaraan, Heart Attack (poem) are written by
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (He is born in 1914 in Sialkot, died in Lahore & got Lenin Award
from USSR in 1962)
• Shahnama is written by Firdausi
• Tehzeeb-ul-Ikhlaq, Alkhutbat Al Ahmadiya, Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind are
written by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
• "Dear Mr. Jinnah": Selected Correspondence and Speeches of Liaquat Ali Khan
1937-1947 Pakistan, The Heart of Asia, Pakistan the Heart of Asia are written by
Liaquat Ali Khan [Quaid-e-Millat (‫قائد ملت‬, 'Leader of the Nation') or Shaheed-e-
ّ
Millat (‫ید ِملت‬
ِ ‫شہ‬,
ِ 'Martyr of the Nation')]
• Arabian Nights is written by Sir Richard Buton
• An Ideal Husband, A woman of No importance are written by Oscar Wilde
• Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty Four are written by George Orwell
• Anthony Cleopatra, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Merchant of
Venice, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet are written
by W. Shakespeare
• Caesar and Cleopatra, Doctor’s Dilemma are written by G.B Shaw
• Daughter of the East is written by Benazir Bhutto
• Decline and Fall of Roman Empire is written by Edward Gibbon
• East of Aden is written by John Steinbeck
• French Revolution is written by Tomas Carlyle
• Freedom at Midnight is written by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapiere
• Gone with the Wind is written by Margaret Mitchel
• Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Pickwick papers, A Tale of Two Cities,
Pickwick Papers are written by Charles Dickens
• On the Origin of Species (Natural Selection Theory) is written by Charles
Darwin
• Gulliver’s Travels is written by Jonathan Swift
• Ibn Battuta Travels in Asia and Africa is written by Ibn-e-Battuta
• Jungle book is written by Rudyard Kipling
• Jinnah of Pakistan is written by Stanley Wolpert
• Myth of Independence, Foreign Policy of Pakistan are written by Zulfiqar Ali
Bhutto
• World War is written by W. Churchill
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah is written by M.H Saiyid
• Nine Days Wonder is written by John Masefield
• Old man and the Sea is written by Ernest Hamingway
• Paradise Lost is written by John Milton
• Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility are written by Jane Austen
• Robinson Crusoe is written by Daniel Defoe
• Sohrab and Rustam is written by Mathew Arnold
• Social Contact is written by Rousseau
• Treasure Island is written by R.L Stevenson
• Tropic of Cancer is written by Henry Miller
• Vanity of Human Wishes is written by Samuel Johnson
• Wealth of Nation is written by Adam Smith (Father of Economics)
• Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan is written by Stanley Wolpert
• Faust is written by Goethe
• Mein Kampf is written by Hitler
• Divine Comedy is written by Dante
• Odyssey (Greek) is written by Homer
• Utopia is written by Thomas Mooore
• War and Peace is written by Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment is written by F.M Dostovsky
• Communist Manifesto (including famous Theory of Communism) is written by
Karl Marx and Eagles
• Das Capital is written by Karl Marx
• The idiot is written by Dostoevsky
• Don Quixoto is written by Miguel De Cervates
• The Prince is written by Machiavelli
• Constitutional Development of Pakistan is written by G.W Choudhry
• Five Thousand Years of Pakistan is written by Wheeler R.E.M
• Jinnah, Creator of Pakistan is written by Hector Bolitho
• Muslim Separatism in India and Pakistan is written by Abdul Hamid
• Pakistan the Formative Phase is written by Lawrence Ziring
• Political System in Pakistan, Politics in Pakistan are written by Khalid B. Saeed
• Quaid-e-Azam and Pakistan is written by Ahmad Hasan Dani
• Struggle for Pakistan, History of Freedom Movement, A Short History of
Pakistan are written by I.H Qureshi
• The Emergency of Pakistan is written by Choudhry Mohd Ali (Former Pakistani
PM)
• Towards Pakistan is written by Waheed-uz-Zaman
• World Politics Since 1945 is written by P. Calvocrassi
• Khushboo, Inkar, Kaf-e-Aaina, Aks-e-Khushboo are written by Parveen Shakir
• Laila Majnoo is written by Amir Khusro
• Akbar Nama is written by Abu Fazal
• Green Book is written by President Muammar Gaddafi
• Republic, The Laws are written by Plato
• Revolution and Independence is written by Words Worth
• Road to Freedom is written by Bertrand Russel
• Joan of Arc is written by G.W Shaw.
• Foust is written by Goethe.
• “Profiles in Courage”, “Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy” are written by
Henry Kissinger.
• “East and Eden” is written by John Steinbeck.
• A farewell to Arms is written by Earnest Hemingway.
• Travel in Arabian Desert is written by C.M Doughty.
• The poem “Ancient Mariner” is the work of Coleridge.
• Jalali Calendar is prepared by Umar Khyam (During Seljuk Era)
• Tafseer Ibn-e-Arbi is written by Sheikh Akbar Mohaiyud-din Ibn-e-Arbi
(Eurtughrul Drama Ibn-E-Arbi. He is buried in Jerusalem)
• “Dawn” Newspaper was founded (started from Delhi in 1941) by Quaid-e-Azam
Mohd Ali Jinnah
• “Zamindar” Newspaper is started from Lahore, Punjab in 1903 by Maulana
Zafar Ali Khan
• “My Brother” is written by Fatima Jinnah (Published in 1987)
• Lenin wrote ‘The State & Revolution’. He was the leader of Russian Revolution
in 1917.
• Al Ghazali is known as Hujatul Islam.
• The name of the book which Al-Farabi wrote is ‘Ara Madinatul Fazila’.
• Aristotle founded ‘the lyceum’.
• Mao wrote ‘On Contradictions’.
• J.S. Mill wrote ‘On liberty’.
• Discovery of Pakistan by A. Aziz.
• Foundation of Pakistan, Evolution of Pakistan are written by Sharifuddin
Pirzada.
• Jinnah of Pakistan by Stanley Woolpert.
• Jinnah as I know him by Abdul Hassan Isphahani.
• The Making of Pakistan by Richard Symonds.
• The Making of Pakistan, “Party politics in Pakistan’ (1947-58), The Murder of
History are written by K. K Aziz.
• India wins Freedom by Abdul Kalam Azad.
• Emergence of Pakistan, Now or Never (1933 published in England) by Ch.
Rehmat Ali.
• Transfer of Power in India by V.P. Memon.
• Pakistan Naa’guzeer Tha by Syed Hasan Raza.
• Quaid-i-Azam & Pakistan by Ahmad Hassan Dani
• Friends not Masters by Ayub Khan.
• The Pakistan Issue by Nazir Yar Jung.
• Quid wrote the preface of “My Leader” by Ziauddin Ahmad.
• Muslim Nationalism in India by Malik Hafeez.
• Pathway to Pakistan by Ch. Khaliq-uz-Zaman.
• The Indian Musalmans by W.W Hunter.
• Our Struggle by Mohammad Noman.
• Birth of Pakistan by Dr. Sachin.
• Working with Zia by K.M Arif.
• From Plassey to Pakistan: The Family History of Iskander Mirza, The First
President of Pakistan by Humayun Mirza
• Incomplete Partition by Alastair Lamb.
• Birth of a tragedy by Dr. Tahir Amir.
• My Last day with Quaid by Ilahi Baksh
• Sikander Hayat Khan (1892-1942): A Political Biography was written by Iftikhar
Haider Malik.
• Outline of a scheme of Indian Federation, The Charismatic Leader: Quaid-e-
Azam M.A Jinnah & the Creation of Pakistan, Aspects of Pakistan Movement by
Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan (He is among the founders of Unionist Party)
• Thought on Pakistan by B.R Ambedkar.
• A Leadership Odyssey: Muslim Separatism & the Achievement of the Separate
State of Pakistan is written by Dr. Sikandar Hayat
• In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Agnipath Meri Atmakatha by Pervaiz Musharraf
• 'Freedom' at Midnight by Larry Collins
• The Forgotten Years is an autobiography of first Foreign Minister of Pakistan Sir
Zafarullah Khan written by Himself.
• Mission with Mountbatten by Alan Campbell Johnson.
• Religious Thought of Sayyid Ahmed Khan by Bashir Ahmad Dar.
• The Cambridge History of the British Empire by H.H Dodwell.
• Oxford History of India by Vincent Smith.
• India, Pakistan & the West by Percival Smith.
• Alice in Wonderland is a book written by Lewis Carrol.
• Edwina and Nehru is written by Catherine Clement.
• Beloved is a novel authored by Toni Morrison.
• Conquest of Happiness is authored by Bertrand Russel.
• Crossing the Threshold of Hope is authored by Pope John Paul II.
• Gulliver’s Travel is authored by Jonathan Swift in which there is description of
the Island of Lilliputs.
• Higher than Hopes is biography of Nelson Mandela written by Fatima Meer.
• India Divided is a book written by Dr. Rajendra Parsad.
• Indian War of Independence is a book written by V.D. Savarkar.
• Kubla Khan is a poem by Coleridge.
• Life Divine is a book written by Sri Aurobindo.
• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus are the book written by John
Gray.
• Mother India is a book written by Katherine Mayo.
• My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir is written by Jagmohan.
• Unto This Last is written by John Ruskin.
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• "History of God" by Karen Armstrong
• Raghuvamsa is written by Kalidas.
• Grief and Hope is a book written by Noa Ben Artizi-Plossof, grand-daughter of
slain Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin.
• Awaaz-e-Dost is written by Mukhtar Masood
• The Sole Spokesman is written by Ayesha Jalal
• 7-Habits of the Highly Effective People is written by Stephen Covey
• Freedom Behind Bars is a book written by Kiran Bedi.
• “The Sun also Rises” is written by Earnest Hemingway.
• Khadija Mastoor wrote Angan.
• Imam Ghazali is the author of Ahya-al-Uloom.
• Montesquieu wrote ‘the spirit of laws’.
• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• “Voyage through History” by Musarrat Hussain Zuberi
• “Preparing for the Twenty First Century”, ‘Rise and Fall of Great Powers’ are
written by Paul Kennedy
• “Supreme Court and Human Rights” by Tamizuddin
• What Happened (2017), State of Terror (2021), Talking It Over (2016), Hard
Choices (2014), The Book of Gutsy Women (2019), Why I should Be President
(2014) are written by Hillary Clinton
• USA Draft of Independence is written by Benjamin Franklin
• East of Eden is written by John Steinbeck
• Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab is written by Ibn-e-Ansha
• Qatiha Burhaan, Diwan-e-Ghalib, Ghazals of Ghalib is written by Mirza Asad
Ullah Khan Ghalib
• Being & Nothingness is written by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Indus Saga & The Making of Pakistan is written by Aitzaz Ahsan
• Strong Together by Hillary Clinton & Tim Kaine
• My Experiments with Truth is autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi written by
Himself.
• Father of Chemistry is Jaber Bin Hayan
• Father of Mathematics is Ibn-ul-Haytham
• Kitab-ul-Haiwan is written by Abu Usman Omro
• Asaa-al-Baqia, Kitab-ul-Hind are written by Al Beruni
• Musa Khwarzami is The Greatest Mathematician
• Al Jamiyal Fi-al-Adwiya-al-Muffarda is Abu Mohd Abdullah Bin Ahmad Ibn-e-
Baitaar

Books written by Dr. Allama Iqbal

Urdu Poetry Collection Books

▪ Bang-i-Darah published in 1924
▪ Bal-e-Jibril published in 1935
▪ Zarb-i-Kalim published in 1936
▪ Armaghan-e-Hijaz (Persian & Urdu) published in 1938
Persian Collection
▪ Asrar-i-Khudi published in 1915
▪ Rumuz-i-Bekhudi published in 1918
▪ Payam-i-Mashriq published in 1923
▪ Zabur-i-Ajam published in 1927
▪ Javid Nama published in 1932 (In this book he advised to his son Javed
Iqbal)
▪ Pas Cheh Bayed Kard ai Aqwam-e-Sharq published in 1936
➢ In 1905, Iqbal wrote Tarana-e-Hind popularly known as Saare Jahan
Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara
➢ "Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua" also known as "Bachche Ki Dua" authored by
Muhammad Iqbal in 1902
➢ Taloo-e-Islam poem is written by Allama Iqbal
➢ Khizar-e-Raah a poem is in Bang-i-Darah
➢ Shikwa, Jawab-e-Shikwa in his book Kulliat-e-Iqbal published in 1913
➢ Last Poem of Allama Iqbal is Hazrat-e-Insan published in Armaghan-
e-Hijaz in 1938