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  2. Urdu poetry - Wikipedia

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    Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan . According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d.1874), Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) and ...

  3. List of Urdu poets - Wikipedia

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    Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi, the poet first believed to have coined the name "Urdu" around 1780 AD for a language that went by a multiplicity of names before his time. Mirza Muhammad Rafi, Sauda (1713–1780) Siraj Aurangabadi, Siraj (1715–1763) Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi, Soz (1720-1799) Khwaja Mir Dard, Dard (1721–1785)

  4. Wali Mohammed Wali - Wikipedia

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    Wali Muhammad Wali (1667–1707), also known as Wali Dakhani, Wali Gujarati, and Wali Aurangabadi, was a classical Urdu poet from India.. He is considered by many scholars to be the father of Urdu poetry, being the first established poet to have composed ghazals in the Urdu language and compiled a divan (a collection of ghazals where the entire alphabet is used at least once as the last letter ...

  5. Ghulam Rasool Nazki - Wikipedia

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    Children. Farooq Nazki, Bilal Nazki, Ayaz Rasool Nazki [1] Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki (16 March 1910 – 16 April 1998 [2] ), also spelled Meer Ghulam Rasul Naazki, was a Kashmiri poet, writer, broadcaster, and teacher. He wrote books, including poetry in regional and foreign languages such as Urdu, Persian, Arabic and later work in Kashmiri language.

  6. The Call of the Marching Bell - Wikipedia

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    The Call of the Marching Bell ( Urdu: بان٘گِ دَرا, Bang-e-Dara; published in 1924) was the first Urdu philosophical poetry book by Muhammad Iqbal . Muhammad Iqbal, then president of the Muslim League in 1930 and address deliverer.

  7. Mah Laqa Bai - Wikipedia

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    Mah Laqa Bai (7 April 1768 – August 1824), born Chanda Bai, and sometimes referred to as Mah Laqa Chanda, was an Indian 18th century Urdu poet, courtesan ( tawaif ) and philanthropist based in Hyderabad. In 1824, she became the first female poet to have a diwan (collection of poems) of her work, a compilation of Urdu Ghazals named Gulzar-e ...

  8. Ada Jafri - Wikipedia

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    Ada Jafarey (Urdu: ادؔا جعفری : Adā Jaʿfrī) (PP, TI), often spelled Ada Jafri (22 August 1924 – 12 March 2015), was a Pakistani poet who is regarded as the first major female Urdu poet to be published and has been called "The First Lady of Urdu Poetry".

  9. Ghalib - Wikipedia

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    Ghalib started composing poetry at the age of 11. His first language was Urdu, but Persian and Turkish were also spoken at home. He received an education in Persian and Arabic at a young age. During Ghalib's period, the words "Hindi" and Urdu" were synonyms (see Hindi–Urdu controversy ).