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Urdu literature originated sometime around the 14th century in present-day North India among the sophisticated gentry of the courts. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu.
Rekhta (website) Rekhta is an Urdu literary web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5]
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 ...
Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish, Atish (1778–1846) Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Zauq (1789–1854) Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ghalib (1797–1869) Chhannu Lal Dilgeer, Ghulam Hussain (1780–1848)
Pakistani literature ( Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the South Asia. [1] The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of British India was inherited by the new state.
U. Urdu-language books (4 C, 62 P) Urdu-language literary movements (4 P) Urdu-language plays (1 C, 16 P)
v. t. e. Khwaja Hafiz recites his poetry in the 17th century. The Urdu ghazal is a literary form of the ghazal -poetry unique to the Indian subcontinent, written in the Urdu standard of the Hindostani language. [1] It is commonly asserted that the ghazal spread to South Asia from the influence of Sufi mystics in the Delhi Sultanate.
Shafiq-ur-Rahman ( Urdu: شفیق الرحمن) (9 November 1920 – 19 March 2000) was a Pakistani humorist and a short-story writer of Urdu language. [1] [2] He was one of the most illustrious writers of the Urdu speaking world. Like Mark Twain and Stephen Leacock, [3] he has given enduring pleasure to his readers. He was a medical doctor by ...