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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.
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 ). Urdu literature is popular mostly ...
The dictionary has been arranged and edited according to the following criteria: All the common words, idioms, proverbs, and modern academic, literary, scientific, and technical terms of the Urdu language have been listed.
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.
Mushaira ( Urdu: مشاعرہ, romanized : Mušā'ira) is a poetic symposium. It is an event (called mehfil, Mushairi) where poets gather to perform their works. A mushaira is part of the Culture of North India, Pakistan and the Deccan, particularly among the Hyderabadi Muslims, and it regarded as a forum for free self-expression.
Urdu has been described as a Persianised register of the Hindustani language; [16] [17] Urdu and Hindi share a common Sanskrit - and Prakrit -derived vocabulary base, phonology, syntax, and grammar, making them mutually intelligible during colloquial communication. [18] [19] [20] While formal Urdu draws literary, political, and technical vocabulary from Persian, [21] formal Hindi draws these ...
Nastaliq ( / ˌnæstəˈliːk, ˈnæstəliːk /; [2] نستعلیق, Persian: [næstʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəst̪ɑːliːq] ), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical Persian, Kashmiri, Punjabi ...
Muhammad Iqbal (1877 – 1938) was a prolific writer who authored many works covering various fields and genres such as poetry, philosophy and mysticism. His philosophical writings and poetical works had a notable impression on the religio-cultural and social revival of the East particularly subcontinent Muslim. [1] The central theme of his philosophical thought throughout his works, prose and ...
Nazm. Nazm ( Urdu: نظم) is a major part of Urdu and Sindhi poetry that is normally written in rhymed verse and also in modern prose-style poems. Nazm is a significant genre of Urdu and Sindhi poetry; the other one is known as ghazal ( Urdu: غزل ). Nazm is significantly written by controlling one’s thoughts and feelings, which are ...
Ghazal. An illustrated headpiece from a mid-18th century collection of ghazals and rubāʻīyāt. The ghazal [a] is a form of amatory poem or ode, [1] originating in Arabic poetry. [2] Ghazals often deal with topics of spiritual and romantic love and may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation from the ...