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Abdul Hameed was born in Talwandi Musa, a village in Gujranwala, Punjab, British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan). [1]He had completed his early education at home and completed his matriculation (10th grade) from Islamia High School, Bhati Gate, Lahore, 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).
Anjuman in India is known as "Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind)" (انجمنِ ترقیِ اردو (ہند. [5] It has 600 branches across India. [5] After the independence of India, Zakir Hussain become the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1949. Anjuman Taraqui Urdu (Hind) was shifted to Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
The following is a List of Urdu-language poets This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
He is also a strong supporter of Urdu mahiya and has been both praised and criticised for his work on mahiya in the poetry circles. [2] [3] He is the editor of the literary Urdu magazine Jadeed Adab, [4] first launched from Khanpur in 1978, and later from Germany. [5] [6] Qureshi's poetry has been translated into English, Arabic, German and ...
Wali Muhammad Wali (1667–1707), also known as Wali Dakhani, Wali Gujarati, and Wali Aurangabadi, was a classical Urdu poet from India.. He is considered by many scholars to be the father of Urdu poetry, [1] being the first established poet to have composed ghazals in the Urdu language and compiled a divan (a collection of ghazals where the entire alphabet is used at least once as the last ...
He performed extensive research on the history of Urdu literature and penned five chronicle volumes with the title Tareekh-e-Adab-e-Urdu, covering 15-20 centuries. [ 6 ] In 1983, Jalibi became Vice-chancellor of Karachi University , where he served until 1987. [ 5 ]
Wazir Agha (Urdu: وزیر آغا; born 18 May 1922 – 8 September 2010) was a Pakistani Urdu language writer, poet, critic and essayist. [3] He has written many poetry and prose books. [4] He was also the editor and publisher of the literary magazine "Auraq" for many decades. [1] He introduced many theories in Urdu literature. His most famous ...