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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 Josh Malihabadi (d.1982). The language of Urdu ...
In the 18th century, the three most important forms of Urdu poetry were ghazal, the qasida, and the masnavi. [13] Shaikh Zahuruddin Hatim was an important poet in Delhi during this period. His major works include two volumes of poetry, Diwan and Diwanzada. [11] Urdu poetry was dominated by Mazhar, Sauda, Mir, and Dard, who later came to be known as “the Four Pillars of Urdu Poetry”. [14 ...
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)
Syed Ahmad Shah ( Urdu: سید احمد شاہ ), better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, ( Urdu: احمد فراز 12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) [1] [2] [3] was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding Director General (later Chairman) of Pakistan Academy of Letters. [4] He wrote his poetry under the pseudonym Faraz. [a] He criticised military rule and coup d'état ...
Zehra Nigah ( Urdu: زہرا نگاہ) is a prominent Urdu poet and scriptwriter from Pakistan. [3] [4] [2] She is fondly known as 'Zehra Apa' in the nation. Among the pioneers of poetry by women, Nigah was one of the first Urdu women poets to make their mark in the male dominated field. Nigah's accomplishments especially shone in the domain of mushaira, as she is considered the first female ...
Though much of his poetry is written in Persian, Muhammad Iqbal was also a poet of stature in Urdu. Shikwa, published in 1909, and Jawab-e-Shikwa, published in 1913, extol the legacy of Islam and its civilizing role in history, bemoan the fate of Muslims everywhere, and squarely confront the dilemmas of Islam in modern times. Shikwa is in the form of a complaint to Allah for having let down ...
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.
Meeraji is considered to be one of the pioneers of symbolism in Urdu poetry, and especially introducing Free Verse. Along with N. M. Rashid, he was a leading poet of the group Halqa-e Arbab-e Zauq, which broke away from the classic convention of radeef and qafia, explored the rich resources of blank verse and Free Verse, rejected the confines of the socially "acceptable" and "respectable ...