A na’at is a poem expressing the poet’s devotion to the Prophet of Islam. A rubai is a four-line poem on a specific theme like The Ruba’iat of Omar Khayyam. Humorous and satirical poetry is also ...
In this book of essays, Rakhshanda Jalil shines a light on the inclusive and pluralistic nature of Urdu poetry ...
Among those who bled the evocation of the lost city in their accounts were Munshi Faizuddin, Rashid-ul-Khairi, Nasir Nazeer ...
What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...
In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... Like T S ...
Such attacks on Urdu, many believe, is part of a larger push to marginalise India's Muslim population ... choice for some of India's most famous poets and writers. Some of India's most acclaimed ...
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 Wednesday ... Another speaker, ...
The movement of Islam into the countries around the South ... where they are part of north Indian and Pakistani Urdu poetic performance traditions of recitation, music, and poetry. In West Java, the ...
When reading poetry a reader will interpret what it means to them. Everyone's response is different. What is imagery? Learn about how writers use imagery, the impact of imagery and how it appeals ...
‘There’s not a single Muslim student’ here. Sidra village has become the region’s Urdu ‘influencer’. Sidra (Tonk): A village ...
Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...