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Mashal is a non-commercial and non-profit organization located in Lahore, Pakistan which promotes and conducts educational and social activities, and publishes books in Urdu on women's rights, education, environment, science, philosophy, and contemporary issues.
A Mashal (Hebrew: משל) is a short parable with a moral lesson or religious allegory, called a nimshal. "Mashal" is used also to designate other forms in rhetoric, such as the fable and apothegm. Talmudist Daniel Boyarin has recently defined משל as a process of "exemplification," seeing it as the sine qua non of Talmudic hermeneutics (Boyarin 2003: 93). He quotes Song of Songs Rabba: "until Solomon invented the משל, no one could understand Torah at all." The phenomenon has been compared to the more recent phenomenon of sampling in modern popular music, especially hip-hop (Levy 2010).
Mashal can refer to:
- Mashal (allegory), Biblical parable or allegory
- Mashal, Iran, village in Gilan Province, Iran
- Mashal, Gulbarga, settlement in Karnataka, India
- Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal)
- Mashal (organisation), non-profit organization in Lahore, Pakistan
- Mashal Secondary School & Intermediate College, Karachi, Pakistan
- FK Mashʼal Mubarek, Uzbek football club