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A prominent crossover writer was Amir Khusrau, an Indian poet whose Persian and Urdu couplets are to this day read in South Asia. Muhammad Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan, was also a prominent South Asian writer who wrote in both Persian and Urdu; which in later life he reverted back to Persian exclusively.
Mirza Muhammad Rafi, Sauda (1713–1780) Siraj Aurangabadi, Siraj (1715–1763) Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi, Soz (1720-1799) Khwaja Mir Dard, Dard (1721–1785) Qayem Chandpuri, Muhammad Qyamuddin Ali Qayem (1722–1793) Mir Taqi Mir, Mir (1723–1810) Nazeer Akbarabadi, Nazeer (1740–1830) Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat, Jurat (1748–1810)
The Letters of Ghalib (Khutoot-e-Ghalib) is the compilation of Mirza Ghalib's letters. One of the greatest Urdu-Persian poets of all time, Ghalib was also a passionate and serious writer of letters. [1] The distinguishing quality of Ghalib's epistolary practice was the energy and intimacy of conversational language that he could deploy with ...
Qasem-e Anvar. Saif Farghani (d. 1348) Imadaddin Nasimi. Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with Hafez. Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din. Shah Nimatullah Wali. Maghrebi Tabrizi. Nur Qutb Alam, Bengali religious scholar. Salman Savaji.
Moeen Nizami ( Urdu: معین نظامی, born Ghulam Moeen Ud Din on 1 February 1965) is a Pakistani Urdu poet, literary and religious scholar specialized in Persian language and tasawwuf, and Allama Muhammad Iqbal studies [1] 'Moeen' is his pen name, (in Urdu takhalus). He is a professor of Persian language and literature, Chairman Department ...
Translation: Even though in sweetness Hindi* [archaic name for Urdu, lit. "language of India"] is sugar – (but) speech method in Dari [the variety of Persian in Afghanistan] is sweeter * Throughout his life, Iqbal would prefer writing in Persian as he believed it allowed him to fully express philosophical concepts, and it gave him a wider ...
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).
Ghalib was a chronicler of a turbulent period. One by one, Ghalib saw the bazaars – Khas Bazaar, Urdu Bazaar, Kharam-ka Bazaar, disappear, and whole mohallas (localities) and katras (lanes) vanish. The havelis (mansions) of his friends were razed to the ground. Ghalib wrote that Delhi had become a desert.