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  2. Urdu poetry - Wikipedia

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    The Religious Masnavi History of Islam (Tarikh-e-Islam Az Quran) written by Dr Syed Ali Imam Zaidi Gauher Lucknavi. Na`at نعت is a poetry that specifically praises the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Nazm نظم is the basic type of Urdu poetry. It can be written on any topic, and so a large number of Nazm exist.

  3. List of Urdu poets - Wikipedia

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    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)

  4. Ahmad Faraz - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 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).

  6. Jaun Elia - Wikipedia

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    Jaun Elia. Syed Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, [1] commonly known by his pen-name Jaun Elia ( Urdu: جون ایلیا, 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was a Pakistani poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar. One of the most prominent modern Urdu poets, popular for his unconventional ways, he "acquired knowledge of philosophy, logic, Islamic ...

  7. Ghalib - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Aab-e hayat (Azad) - Wikipedia

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    Aab-e hayat ( Urdu: آبِ حیات, lit. water of life) is a commentary (or tazkira) on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad in 1880. [1] The book was described as "canon-forming" and "the most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century." [1] [2] The book is regarded as the first chronological history of Urdu ...

  9. Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa - Wikipedia

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    Overview. 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.