Akbarabadi's influence, through Altaf Husain Hali and Muhammad Husain Azad in the 19th century, has continued in Urdu poetry to this day. One of the great beneficiaries of this influence was Allama ...

In poetry and fiction written in Pakistan ... In the pre-independence phase, Allama Iqbal gave Urdu ghazal a makeover, and the post-independence ghazal embraced the realities of a changing world ...

The 85th death anniversary of great philosopher, thinker and Poet of East, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal is being observed today to acknowledge his struggle and services for a separate homeland for the ...

Of the seven lectures that Dr Allama Iqbal delivered in Muslim congregations in Madras, Hyderabad and Aligarh in the late 1920s and which were subsequently published in 1930 in a compendium under ...

By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long ...

Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, saw the Bangla language movement in 1952 against the imposition of Urdu by Pakistan. Five ...

In hand this week is a thick volume of reflections on Urdu poetry, a language that started ... In times to come it was taken ...

The 76th death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, was commemorated at the National Press Club in Dhaka with Urdu songs and poetry on ... "Why should we change the ...

The 64th death anniversary of Urdu poet Jigar Muradabadi ... e-Jigar and Shola-e-Tuur while his poetry collection 'Aatish-e-Gul was published in 1959. Jigar Muradabadi was only second poet, after ...

Also in later decades, Allama Iqbal, too, wrote in Persian ... did give some support to Urdu poetry and literature but not sufficient to make it acceptable at the administration level.