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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 ...
Akhtar Shairani was born on 4 May 1905 as Muhammad Dawood Khan to the Pashtun Sherani tribe, Shirani tribe which had come to India with Sultan Mahmood Ghaznawi and had stayed back in Tonk, Rajasthan. [1][2] He was a son of Hafiz Mahmood Sheerani, a scholar and teacher of high repute, who had started teaching at Islamia College, Lahore in 1921.
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 Urdu ghazal makes use of two main rhymes: the radif and qaafiya. [9] The radif is a repeating refrain consisting of a single word or short phrase that ends every second line in the ghazal. [9] However, in the matla, the first she'r of a ghazal, the radif will end both lines of the she'r. [8] The qaafiya is a rhyming syllable that precedes ...
Subh-e-Azadi (lit.'Dawn of Independence' or 'Morning of freedom' [4]), also spelled Subh-e-Aazadi or written as Subh e Azadi, is an Urdu language poem by a Pakistani poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz written in 1947. [5][6] The poem is often noted for its prose style, marxist perspectives, disappointment, anguish, and critic atmosphere.
Insha Allah Khan. Insha Allah Khan (Urdu: اِنشا اللہ خاں; c. 1752 Murshidabad –1817), known as Insha, was an Urdu poet in the courts of Lucknow and Delhi in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. A multi-talented polyglot, he was the author of the first grammar of the Urdu language, Darya-e-Latafat.
In classical Persian poetry, the ruba'i is written as a four-line (or two- couplet / two- distich) poem, with a rhyme-scheme AABA or AAAA. [2][3][4][5] This is an example of a ruba'i from Rumis's Divan-e Shams: And poured into the eyes and souls of the lovers.
'The city's misfortune' [1]), sometimes spelled Shahar-i-Ashob, is an ancient Urdu poetic genre in South Asia with its roots in lamented classical Urdu poetry. [2] [3] It was existed and widely used by the poets between the 16th and 19th centuries during the Mughal Empire.