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Manto

منٹو

Manto.

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At a glance

Identifiers
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Review
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LiteratureMuslim minorities under non-Muslim ruleDissent, heresy and freethought

Screening Room

Format
Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released
2018 CE · 1439 AH†
Countries
IN
Languages
hi (original) · ur (original)
Approach
journalism
Depiction of sacred figures
The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable

Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.

Overview

A film by Nandita Das about Saadat Hasan Manto, godfather of the Urdu short story, and his obscenity trials after Partition. 1 2

People and things also explored

Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Salim ibn Umayr's mission to kill Abu Afak· Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan· Abu Afak· Asma' bint Marwan· Abu Afak's verses on the rider who split the sons of Qayla· Asma' bint Marwan's verses reviling the Ansar for obeying 'the stranger'· Babri Masjid

Sources

  1. Wikidata
  2. IMDb
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islam.museum contributors. “Manto”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/manto-2018/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)

Aljamia is the Spanish form of the Arabic al-'ajamiyya ('non-Arabic'), a term the Muslims of al-Andalus used for the Romance dialects of their northern neighbours, dialects coloured with Arabisms introduced from the 9th century by Mozarab emigrants. In the later Middle Ages the word came to mean Spanish written in Arabic script, and the literature in that script is called aljamiado.