These essays abound in rare, delightful contexts and insightful connections produced by a penetrating, finished mind deeply read in multiple disciplines. We owe a dept of gratitude to Nomanul Haq for contextualising in this collection the debates and traditions from the diverse worlds of philosophy, poetry, and classics. Equally, they are Haq’s tribute to the men and women who, like him, dedicated their lives to the world of letters.
– Musharraf Ali Farooqi, author, novelist, and translator

Towards the Pebbled Shore by Dr. Nomanul Haq is a truly remarkable, incisive, and enlightening work, a collection of essays illuminated by his profound knowledge of many literatures, languages, cultures, and their interconnectedness. His riveting discussions capture with great skill how words and narratives have traversed continents and communities … and profoundly influenced classical and contemporary texts. The rich commingling he portrays challenges the narratives of East vs West and the concepts of borders and boundaries … The book includes discussions on Latin, Greek, English, German, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Sanskrit; it focuses on the craft of very many writers ranging from Ibn Sina and Firdausi, Shakespeare and Goethe, Mir and Ghalib to lqbal, Faiz and Manto, Ahmed Faraz, Iftikhar Arif, and Parveen Shakir …
– Muneeza Shamsie, author of Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English

Syed Nomanul Haq is a scholar of intellectual and literary history. He carried out his doctoral research between University College London and Harvard University, notably under the supervision of A. I. Sabra. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, he taught at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania. Over the past two decades, Haq has served as senior faculty at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi, and Habib University. Currently he is Executive Academic Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Governors at the University of Lahore. He continues to teach at the IBA and also chairs the Arts and Humanities Review Panel of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission. Dr. Haq has published more than one hundred scholarly articles and some fifteen singly-authored and edited books. He is the general editor of Studies in Islamic Philosophy (Oxford University Press).

Publisher: Folio Books
Publishing date: January 2025
ISBN: 978-969-7834-33-4
Binding: Paperback
Rights: World
Availability: Pre Order