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	Urdu Poetry Archive - Ghazals, nazms, Urdu poetry related articles, mailing lists, and more!
		The ghazals and nazms in the Urdu poetry archive have been indexed alphabetically as well as by poet.
		The ghazals and nazms are written in transliterated Urdu (Urdu written in the English script).
		It is always a pleasure to hear from fellow Urdu poetry lovers.
	www.urdupoetry.com (232 words)

	History of Urdu poetry
		Modern Urdu poetry, of which this is the first comprehensive selection, has its own tradition of the new.
		A host of others Urdu poets and translators of English poetry who appeared on the literary scene during the first quarter of this century experimented with non-traditional poetic forms but they ultimately echoed sentiments and adopted forms that were more or less tradition-bound.
		It may not seem quite right to speak of Urdu poetry in terms of Indian and Pakistani poetry, but it would be reasonable to say that the new urdu poetry in Pakistan is remarkable for its variety and vitality.
	www.urdustan.com /history.htm (2346 words)

	Asadullah Khan Ghalib
		Urdu literature enjoyed a great flowering after Aurangzeb's death, but the Muslim conquest was undone by foreign invasion, religious intolerance, British imperialism, ineffective Mughal rulers and the 1857 Mutiny.
		Ghalib's poetry is full of intense grief and yearning — for an earlier love affair, death of an adopted son, for the disappearance of court life and a world of beauty and reflection.
		Urdu, a vernacular fusion of Persian and native Indian languages, appeared as poetry in the courts of Bijapur and Golconda in the 16th century
	www.poetry-portal.com /poets16.html (597 words)

	A Brief History of Urdu Poetry
		Urdu poetry, as it is derived from Persian, Turkish and Arabic, acquired many conventions in its poetry that came from these languages.
		Urdu poetry is based on a system of measure—it is a quantitative expression and its form is very rigid.
		As a result, the poetry, which at that time was mainly for the consumption of the royalty, began to express the sentiments of the love of the male for the male.
	niazi.com /Neurons/a_brief_history_of_urdu_poetry.htm (2817 words)

	Urdu poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like other languages, the history of Urdu poetry does not have a firm starting point and shares origins and influences with other linguistic traditions within the Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani mix.
		This is because in the ghazal form, the poet would usually incorporate his or her pen name into the final couplet (maqta) of each poem as a type of 'signature'.
		Urdu Ghazal, Nazm and Interesting Info about poets and poetry Site/blog on classical and modern Urdu poetry in nastaliq Urdu font and English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urdu_poetry (500 words)

	The Hindu : Literary Review / Book Review : Aesthetics of resistance
		Urdu poets had a dominant presence in the movement and the way they posited a radical aesthetics of resistance against oppressive hegemonies of all kinds had few parallels in South Asian literature.
		The authors argue that though PWM lost steam for a number of reasons, the spirit of resistance still survives, which is notably visible in the strand of feminist Urdu poetry in Pakistan.
		It is a celebration of the spirit of resistance encapsulated in a particular phase of Urdu poetry.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2006/06/04/stories/2006060400080200.htm (717 words)

	All-Info About Poetry - History of Urdu Literature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unlike the Hindi poetry, which grew out of the Indian soil, Urdu poetry was initially fed with Persian words and imagery.
		1831) emerged as a distinct poet, whose poetry was distinguished by its purity of idiom and simplicity of language and thought.
		Akbar Allahabadi (1846-1921) was the pioneer among the Urdu humorists and satirists.
	poetry.allinfo-about.com /features/urdu.html (1617 words)

	Forms of Urdu Poetry
		Some commonly used terms in Urdu poetry are defined in the glossary.
		In its stricter sense, traditionally accepted in Urdu, a marsiya is an elegy written specifically in honour of the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Husain and his comrades at Karbala.
		A self-sufficient quartrain, rhyming (a, a, b, a) and dealing generally with a single idea, which is customarily introduced and developed with the aid of similes in the first three lines, and concluded, with concentrated effort and impact, in the fourth line.The most well known rubaayis in Persian were written by Omar Khayyam.
	www.urdupoetry.com /poetryforms.html (838 words)

	Urdu Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This Urdu Poetry section is focused for people who don't know Urdu that well and are not conversant with the Urdu alphabets and their English pronunciations (like capitalization of alphabets in middle of a letter or usage of "." or "'").
		In its stricter sense, traditionally accepted in Urdu, a marsiya is an elegy written specifically in honour of the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Husain and his comrades at Karbala.
		A self-sufficient quartrain, rhyming (a, a, b, a) and dealing generally with a single idea, which is customarily introduced and developed with the aid of similes in the first three lines, and concluded, with concentrated effort and impact, in the fourth line.The most well known rubaayis in Persian were written by Omar Khayyam.
	www.learningurdu.com /learning-urdu/urdu-poetry.htm (1133 words)

	Mirza Asadullah Khan: Ghalib and Urdu poetry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Urdu, a vernacular fusion of Persian and native Indian languages, appeared as poetry in the courts of Bijapur and Golconda in the 16th century and spread to the courts of Lucknow and Delhi in the late 18th century.
		The poetry is quantitative and formal, the common forms including qasida (panegyric), haju (satire) masnavi (reflective narrative) and ghazal (love, erotic or metaphysical).
		Useful books on Ghalib and Urdu poetry include A. Ali's An Anthology of Urdu Poetry (1992), the Ghazal of Ghalib entry in A. Ahad's Encyclopedia of Islam (1971), D. Matthew and C. Shackle's An Anthology of Classical Urdu Love Lyrics (1972) and M. Memon's Studies in the Urdu Ghazal and Prose Fiction (1979).
	www.poetrymagic.co.uk /poets/ghalib.html (538 words)

	ShaikhSiddiqui Urdu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is a common assumption that Urdu was born in the Mughal camps of Emperor Mohammad Shah Jahan (1628–58 CE) some time during the first half of the seventeenth century.
		The first recorded Urdu sentence that we know of came in the form of a dialogue between Baba Fareed (died 1264 CE) and the maid of another famous Sufi, Khawaja Burhanuddin.
		Akbar Allahabadi (1846-1921 CE) was the pioneer among the Urdu humorists and satirists.
	www.shaikhsiddiqui.com /urdu.html (3560 words)

	Urdu Poetry Community & Forum
		Urdu Poetry of New Indian & Pakistani Poets
		Urdu Poetry Qitaat - Abhi Tuk Sada Rakha Hai
		Urdu Poetry Forum Contests during the month of December 2007.
	www.hallagulla.com (296 words)

	Department of Asian Studies
		These examples of Urdu calligraphy are the names of the artists written in Urdu script and transformed into a picture.
		Urdu students are also welcome to join the Arabic Calligraphy Club, as the script is similar.
		Introduces the development of Hindi and Urdu poetry from the fifteenth century to the present, including the epic, devotional, dramatic, and romantic genres.
	www.unc.edu /depts/asia/program_hindi-urdu.html (860 words)

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		I have often wondered why, despite these > > challenging rigors, Urdu poets have done so well on the whole; one > > reason presumably has to do with the fact that their idiom, coming from > > a variety of sources, is so rich.
		The questions you have asked will give you quite a good grounding for you to lay a foundation for understanding Urdu poetry, and questions with regards to meter are not only asked by you but by a great many of us on this forum.
		But before you go about bringing in comparisons of Urdu poetry with English or Russian poetry, try to get a firm grasp of some of the fundamentals of Urdu poetry, and then most of your questions will be answered themselves.
	www.urdustan.com /alup/bahar02-05.txt (1071 words)

	Urdu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taken by itself, Urdū is approximately the twentieth most populous natively spoken language in the world, and is the national language of Pakistan as well as one of the 23 national languages of India.
		The official language of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and their successor states, as well as the cultured language of poetry and literature, was Persian, while the language of religion was Arabic.
		Urdenglish, a portmanteau of the words Urdu and English, is the arbitrary usage of Urdu and English, combining both, in one sentence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urdu (6514 words)

	The Beauty that is URDU
		Urdu, distinguished from Hindi by its script and vocabulary, is the national language of Pakistan and one of the official languages of India.
		It is one of the most widely spoken languages of South Asia, and has acquired a wider distribution in other parts of the world, notably the UK, where it is regarded as their major cultural language by most Muslims from Pakistan and northern India.
		Urdu Poetry: The works of Iqbal, Ghalib, et al.
	www.cs.uh.edu /~ahmed/urdu.html (186 words)

	URDU
		Urdu started with the advent of Islam in the area, muslim armies had people from Arabia, Persia, Central Asia and Turkey.
		Hindi a spin off of Urdu, has mostly the same vocublary and is spoken the same way, but its written in a different script.
		The Urdu Vocublary has a word for every shade of emotions, it gives a different level of meaning to the poetry and prose written in it.
	members.tripod.com /~NAJEEBS/urdu.htm (381 words)

	A.A. Kudrolli
		Here I have presented a sample of my writings, some of them are about Urdu poetry.
		Urdu is an aurally pleasing language that is spoken in India and Pakistan whose natural flow lends itself well to the motion of poetry.
		I have found a number of spectacular poems written by a variety of poets that are in danger of being forgotten.
	www.geocities.com /aakudrolli (204 words)

	Urdu POetry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You are now looking at the new Urdu Poetry section of World of Urdu Poetry.
		Urdu is a very popular language spoken in South Asia.
		All graphics,Design, and poetry on this site are copyrighted and may not be used in any shape or formunless otherwise noted.
	www.ionline.de /urdu/html/poetry/poetry.htm (202 words)

	Uma's Ghazal Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Persian gave way to Urdu as the language of poetry and culture in India, the ghazal, the fruit of Indo-Iranian culture, found its opportunity to grow and develop.
		Of these, Wali Deccany (1667-1707) may be called the Chaucer of Urdu poetry.
		Wali's poetry awakened the minds of the Persian-loving North to the beauty and richness of Urdu language, and introduced them to the true flavor of ghazal, thus encouraging its rapid growth and popularity.
	www.msci.memphis.edu /~ramamurt/ghazal.html (713 words)

	The Writers Cafe - Urdu Poetry
		The grammar and syntax of Urdu are that of Hindi, whereas most of the vocabulary is drawn from Arabic and Persian.
		The Urdu poetry which is being written today in Britain is a combination of all these strands, both traditional and progressive, classical and existential.
		He was the first Urdu poet to have started the practice of expressing love from the man's point of view, as against the prevailing convention of impersonating as a woman.
	www.neukol.org.uk /outlet/index.php/writerscafe/2006/02/17/urdu_poetry (4014 words)

	Ahmedabad.com :: Arts :: Chinese man recites Urdu poetry
		That was how I attended an Urdu school where no fee was charged.
		According to Yung, Urdu, a language that played a vital role in India’s freedom struggle, was not the language of a particularly community.
		"Urdu originates in the hearts of the people," he said.
	www.ahmedabad.com /blogs/post/index/80/Chinese-man-recites-Urdu-poetry (202 words)

	KARACHI: Urdu poetry assessed -DAWN - Local; 14 August, 2004
		KARACHI, Aug 13: The Ombudsman of Sindh, Mr Yusuf Jamal, gave an assessment of Urdu poetry "After Faiz, Josh and Firaq." It was the speaker's favourite topic, so he enlivened the evening with his oration, quoting fluently couplets and verses, he found landmarks in literature.
		Although the speaker covered the entire Urdu poetry, but at the end he found that literature was losing its grip and the number of readers was diminishing by each passing day.
		As for Josh, he was an ocean of knowledge with tremendous command on languages - Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Yousuf Jamal said.
	www.dawn.com /2004/08/14/local8.htm (446 words)

	Allama Iqbal - Full Collection of Allama Iqbal @ Love Urdu
		By the time Iqbal appeared on the scene poetry was no longer the monopoly of a tiny minority.
		Click here for a superb and enchanting selection of poetry from this great poet.
		Comprehensive portal of Urdu Poetry, Urdu News, Urdu Ghazal, Urdu Shayari and more.
	www.urdulove.com /poet_intros_english/Allama_Iqbal.html (219 words)

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