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Rangila Rasul or Rangeela Rasool (transl. Colourful Prophet [5]) is a book published anonymously in Urdu [1] in 1924. [4]The book was considered highly controversial due to its satire of the marital life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Raz is noted for repeatedly playing with the Urdu word aa'ina [mirror in English] in his poetry, and integrating it into his work in different ways. Poet and reviewer Afsar Mahpuri notes in his article, "Rafiuddin Raaz – A dreaming poet," the "focal position and importance" that the mirror has been awarded over time, and presents the following partial list of couplets, containing the word aa ...
Choudhri Mohammed Naim (born 3 June 1936) is an American scholar of Urdu language and literature. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Naim is the founding editor of both Annual of Urdu Studies and Mahfil (now Journal of South Asian Literature), as well as the author of the definitive textbook for Urdu pedagogy in English.
Sabrang Digest was founded on January 1, 1970 by Shakeel Adilzada.The earliest editorial team included Shafique Hassan (editor-in-chief), Shakeel Adilzada (editor), and Hassan Hashmi (associate editor).
Urdu Digest has started many new projects, such as Urdu Forum. Wasi Shah has been selected as first Safeer-e-Urdu for 2012. Many other prominent scholars are on the panel of Urdu Digest. Since 2003, the administration of Urdu Digest has also run the Karwan-e-Ilm Foundation, a noncommercial charitable organization to save and promote talent of ...
Court piece (also known as Hokm (Persian: حکم), Rung (Urdu: رنگ) and Rang) [1] is a trick-taking card game similar to the card game whist in which eldest hand makes trumps after the first five cards have been dealt, and trick-play is typically stopped after one party has won seven tricks. A bonus is awarded if one party wins the first ...
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).
Memon wrote a total of five novels, but three of his novels – Parado Soyee Sadd (The Echo is the Call), Maran Moun Se Aa (Come Die With Me) and Tuhinji Duniya Sabh Rang Sanwal (Your World Has All The Colours) – are considered to be some of the most widely acclaimed novels in Sindhi literature. He also translated T. S. Eliot in Urdu.