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Urdu literature ادبیاتِ اُردُو
Urdu literature
By category Urdu language
Major figures
Amir Khusrau (father of Urdu literature) - Wali Dakhani (father of Urdu poetry) - Mir Taqi Mir - Ghalib - Abdul Haq (Baba-e-Urdu)
Urdu writers
Writers – Novelists – Poets
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Ghazal – Fiction
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Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu Urdu movement Literary Prizes
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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). Urdu literature is popular mostly in Pakistan, where Urdu is the national language, and in India, where it is an Eighth Schedule language.
Urduliterature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While, It tends to be dominated by...
later gave us the Hindi and Urdu languages. Matthews, David John; Shackle, C.; Husain, Shahanara (1985). Urduliterature. Urdu Markaz; Third World Foundation...
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...
Urdu (/ˈʊərduː/; اردو, [ʊɾˈduː] ; ALA-LC: Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of...
Pakistani literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947...
preserving Urdu, Persian and Arabic literature, compiling them into his Thulatha Ghusala. Shortly after the Bengali Language Movement of 1952, Urdu culture...
The Persian language and Urdu have had an intricate relationship throughout the history of the latter. Persian historically played a significant role in...
"Parrot of India" (Tuti-e-Hind), and has been called the "father of Urduliterature." Khusrau is regarded as the "father of qawwali" (a devotional form...
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. It...
Assamese, Odia, and Maithili appeared. Thereafter literature in various dialects of Hindi, Persian and Urdu began to appear as well. In 1913, Bengali poet...
The Urdu movement was a socio-political movement aimed at making the Urdu standard of the Hindostani language as the universal lingua-franca and symbol...
people. The historical form of Deccani sparked the development of Urduliterature during the late-Mughal period. Deccani arose as a lingua franca under...
not capable of this secret, sing about red wine and sweet lips. In Urduliterature, red poppies, or "Gul-e-Lalah", are often a symbol of martyrdom, and...
although the name "Urdu" did not exist at the time for the language. Urduliterature originated some time around the 14th century in present-day North India...
Hindi. Matthews, David John; Shackle, C.; Husain, Shahanara (1985). Urduliterature. Urdu Markaz; Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies....
India's struggle for independence, and a scholar of Islam and Urduliterature. It was the only Urdu university in India until the second university was built...
contains Urdu text. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters running left to right or other symbols instead of Urdu script. The Urdu alphabet...
brought a distinctive feminine voice to Urduliterature. Since her death, the "Parveen Shakir UrduLiterature Festival" has been held every year in Islamabad...
the 19th century. Today Urdu drama has been developed as a separate branch of Urduliterature. Urdu, Drama. "Collection of Urdu dramas". Rekhta. Saksina...
those poets who wrote on Varanasi in Urdu. In comparison to literature in the other two languages, English literature has fewer works that give Varanasi...
Urdu and Persian. Although his Persian Divan (body of work) is at least five times longer than his Urdu Divan, his fame rests on his poetry in Urdu....
182 Ali Jawad Zaidi, A History of Urduliterature, Sahitya Akademi (1993), p. 181 D.J. Matthews, UrduLiterature, South Asia Books (1985), p. 86 A website...
Muhajir culture (Urdu: مہاجر ثقافت) is the culture of the various Muslims of different ethnicities who migrated mainly from North India (after the partition...
promoting Urduliterature. Under his leadership, the Rekhta Foundation has curated the Rekhta website, a comprehensive repository of Urdu literary works...
Hindi and Urdu styles of the Hindustani language. He was the son of Munshi Premchand, a pioneer of modern Urduliterature and of Hindi literature. A prolific...