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Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد غزالی توسی), known commonly as Al-Ghazali (Persian: غزالی; UK: / æ l ˈ ɡ ɑː z ɑː l i /, [26] US: / ˌ æ l ɡ ə ˈ z ɑː l i,-z æ l-/; [27] [28] c. 1058 – 19 December 1111), known in medieval Europe by the Latinized Algazel or Algazelus, was a Persian ...
The Urdu ghazal makes use of a store of common characters, settings, images, and metaphors that inform both readers and poets of how to navigate the aforementioned ghazal universe. [33] These tropes have been cultivated for hundreds of years and are meant to deeply resonate with listeners of the ghazal, invoking their expectations of meaning. [33]
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).
An illustrated headpiece from a mid-18th century collection of ghazals and rubāʻīyāt. The ghazal [a] is a form of amatory poem or ode, [1] originating in Arabic poetry. [2] ...
Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali al-Saqqa (1917–1996) (Arabic: الشيخ محمد الغزالي السقا) was an Islamic scholar whose writings "have influenced generations of Egyptians". The author of 94 books, he attracted a broad following with works that sought to interpret Islam and its holy book, the Qur'an , in a modern light.
Urdu is written in the Nastaliq style (Persian: نستعلیق Nastaʿlīq). The Nastaliq calligraphic writing style began as a Persian mixture of the Naskh and Ta'liq scripts. After the Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent, Nastaʻliq became the preferred writing style for Urdu. It is the dominant style in Pakistan and many Urdu writers ...
The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 1 March 2025, it has 218,309 articles, 191,144 registered users and 7,561 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over 150,000 ...
Maqasid al Falasifa (Arabic: مقاصد الفلاسفة), or The Aims of the Philosophers was written by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazali.Influenced by Avicenna's works, he wrote this book presenting the basic theories of philosophy. [1]