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Thank you for visiting the Ibne Safi Website.

This presentation is a sincere fan’s humble tribute to the great writer. This website could not have been completed without information from the first official Ibne Safi website (www.ibnesafi.com), created in 1997 by the author’s son, Ahmad Safi.

Please bear in mind that this is not a commercial website, and all the information provided here is on a voluntary basis. Please email me if you feel any pertinent information is missing from the pages. Please also share any relevant information, documents, articles, and other items that you believe will add to the value of this project. As fans of Ibne Safi, we owe him as much.

I would like to thank the following for the material utilized for this website:

• Ibne Safi's family for their support, and for letting me use information from Ibne Safi Publications.

• Asrar Publications for the usage of front covers.

• Mr. Mushtaq Ahmed Qureshi, publisher of Nae Ufaq, Naya Rukh and Aanchal magazines from Karachi, Pakistan. Various images and excerpts on this website have been obtained from issues of the above mentioned magazines.

• Mr. Humayoon Iqbal (H. Iqbal) who was the first person to publish  a special Ibne Safi issue of his magazine Alif Laila Digest in July 1972. That issue contributed various excerpts and images found on these pages.

• Mr. Imtiaz Haider (son of Abbas Hussaini) publisher Jassosi Duniya Allahabad, India for various images and excerpts used on this website.

• Mr. Aqeel Abbas Jafri, renowned research scholar, for providing useful information for this website.

• Mr. Rashid Ashraf  for providing useful information and material for this website.

• www.urdupoetry.com from where I extrated the rules of Romanized Urdu.

• http://en.wikipedia.org for extracting information on various characters created by Ibne Safi. 

• Daily Dawn

• Daily Jang

• Daily Huriyat

• Daily Jasarat

• Daily Nawae Waqt

• Daily Daily-News

• Daily Star

• Daily Leader

• Weekly Akhbare Jahan

• Monthly Aahang

• Monthly Herald

• Monthly Jasoosi Digest

• Monthly Sarguzasht

• Monthly Suspense Digest

• Monthly Film-Asia

• You and all those fans that have, over the years, supported Ibne Safi, his works and his position in Urdu literature.

• My daughter DurreShehwar for reviewing and editing the text. Her comments on the design of this website were very useful.

I would like to take this opportunity to make few appeals. I request Radio Pakistan to provide me with audiotapes of Ibne Safi’s interviews and plays.

I also appeal to Pakistan Television Corporation for providing me with recordings of Doctor Duaago, Zia Mohyuddin Show, Kasoti and Aap Janab in which Ibne Safi participated.

Thank you for taking the time to peruse these pages.

Regards,

Mohammad Hanif