Shibli Nomani - Works

Works

Shibli was Great Shibli the progress of science and education in the West. He wanted to inspire the Muslims to make similar progress by having recourse to their lost heritage and culture, and warned them against getting lost in Western culture. In keeping with this goal, he wrote the following books;

• Sirat-un-Nabi
• Sirat an-Nu'man,
• Al-Faruq,
• Al-Ma’mun,
• Al-Ghazali,
• Imam Ibn-e-Tamia (Edited by Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini ),
• Mawlana Rumi
• Aurangzeb Alamgir Par Ek Nazar
• Shiʾr al-ʻAjam, a history of Persian poetry
• "Ilm-Kalam", The best book on the history of Muslim theology
• Safar Nama e Rome-o-Misr-o-Sham

“Lot of injustice has been done to Shibli. While Maulana Aslam Jairajpuri pointed out errors in “Sher-ul-Ajam”, it was not mentioned that Shibli was the first to write biography of Maulana Rumi. Though differences between Sir Syed and Shibli are highlighted but it has not been pointed out that in spite of Sir Syed’s opposition to the writing of “Al-Farooq”, Shibli never complained about it. He lamented that Shibli’s Persian poetry was never tested on its merit and was wrongly associated with his acquaintance and close friend with an enlightened intellectual lady of the time Madam Atiya Fyzee. He refuted Shaikh Mohammad Ikram’s claim in this regard and subtly highlighted delicacy of Shibli’s thought moulded into his Persian poetry”