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  2. Ishq - Wikipedia

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    Ishq ( Arabic: عشق, romanized : ʿishq) is an Arabic word meaning 'love' or 'passion', [1] also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent . The word ishq does not appear in the central religious text of Islam, the Quran, which instead uses derivatives of the verbal root habba ( حَبَّ ), such as the ...

  3. Amir Meenai - Wikipedia

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    Genre. Ghazal, Nazm, Na`at, Hamd. Subject. Love, philosophy, mysticism. Ameer Minai or Amir Meenai ( Urdu: امیر مینائی; 1829 — 13 October 1900) was a 19th-century Indian Urdu poet. [1] He was respected by several contemporary poets including Ghalib and Daagh Dehalvi and by Muhammad Iqbal. [2] [1] He wrote in Urdu, Persian and Arabic.

  4. Akhtar Sheerani - Wikipedia

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    Akhtar Shairani was born on 4 May 1905 as Muhammad Davud Khan to the Pashtun Sherani tribe, Shirani tribe which had come to India with Sultan Mahmood Ghaznawi and had stayed back in Tonk, Rajasthan. [1] [2] He was a son of Hafiz Mahmood Sheerani, a scholar and teacher of high repute, who had started teaching at Islamia College, Lahore in 1921.

  5. Muzaffar Warsi - Wikipedia

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    Muzaffar Warsi. Muzaffar Warsi (23 December 1933 – 28 January 2011; Urdu: مظفر وارثی) was a Pakistani poet, essayist, lyricist, and a scholar of Urdu. He began writing more than five decades ago. He wrote a rich collection of na`ats, as well as several anthologies of ghazals and nazms, and his autobiography Gaye Dinon Ka Suraagh.

  6. Urdu ghazal - Wikipedia

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    Urdu ghazal is a form of lyrical poetry that originated in the Urdu language during the Mughal Empire. It consists of rhyming couplets, with each line sharing the same meter. Themes Love ('ishq) A common theme of the ghazal is of the tortured ('ashiq) pursuing an indifferent or cruel beloved (mehboob).

  7. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While, It tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).

  8. Mir Taqi Mir - Wikipedia

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    This article contains Urdu text. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters running left to right or other symbols instead of Urdu script. Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer ), was an Indian poet, author and literary critic of the Urdu and Persian ...

  9. Gulshan-i 'Ishq - Wikipedia

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    The Gulshan-i 'Ishq ("The Rose Garden of Love") is a romantic poem written in 1657 by the Indian Sufi poet Nusrati. [1] Written in the Deccani language, it combines literary and cultural traditions from India and Iran. Manuscripts of the poem, illustrated with lavish paintings, have survived from the 18th century to the present day.