http://www.mafarooqi.com/urdu-project.html Aims to: Creating an electronic record of all available Indo-Islamic texts, and reintroducing these texts to modern readers, using a five-stage process including: 1. bibliographic record-keeping 2. preservation 3. research 4. publication 5. translation into regional and foreign languages. Developing an online system for learning the Urdu language. Developing an interactive database for the study of classical Indo-Islamic texts. Establishing a publishing house for translations of contemporary writings from and into the Urdu language. Creation of MA Farooqi, translator of the critically-acclaimed Adventures of Amir Hamzah :ra: into English. He is also, not that it matters, the great-grand-nephew of Ashraf Ali Thanvi by his own admission in the introduction to his translation of Dastan e Amir Hamzah.
