Inspired by Project Gutenberg, the Iqbal Urdu Cyber Library, a project of Iqbal Academy, Pakistan, is one of the first online digital libraries of Urdu books. It was conceived and developed by Qasim Shahzad under the supervision of Muhammad Suheyl Umar.
In addition to reference material, the library currently contains 552 free Urdu books, comprising 250,634 pages, on Iqbal studies (Iqbaliyat), Urdu literature, Urdu Poetry, Urdu Shairy, Urdu Afsaney, Urdu Ghazals and other Urdu classics.