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Poetry of the modern-day region called Afghanistan has ancient roots, which is mostly written in Dari and Pashto. [1] Afghan poetry relates to the culture of Afghanistan and is an element of Afghan literature .
Through his poetry, he commends the beautiful rivers, mountains, ranches and deserts of Afghanistan and how expresses pride in them. In his Wraka Mayna (lost home) poetry collection, Jahani expresses his deep love and compassion for his homeland Afghanistan. The title of the book means lost homeland.
The landay is a style of poetry from Afghanistan. They are generally twenty-two syllables long, with nine in their first line, and thirteen in the second and final. [1] The American poet Eliza Griswold traveled around Afghanistan with Seamus Murphy, a photographer, to collect landays from remote places around the nation. [2]
The poetry reflects diverse spiritual traditions within the country. In particular, many Afghan poets have been inspired by mystical and Sufism experiences. Afghan poetry is the oldest form of literature and has a rich written and oral tradition. In Afghanistan, poetic expression exists for centuries. The great poet Rumi was an Afghan poet who ...
There are nine syllables in the first line, and thirteen syllables in the second. These short poems typically address themes of love, grief, homeland, war, and separation. [1] The poetic form, traditionally sung aloud, was likely brought into Afghanistan by Aryan nomads thousands of years ago.
Topographic map of northeastern Afghanistan with Koh-i-Baba on the left. The Baba Mountain range (Pashto: بابا غر Bâbâ Ǧar; Persian: کوه بابا Kōh-i Bābā; or Kūh-e Bābā; [2] Kōh or Kūh meaning ′mountain′, Bābā meaning ′father′) is the western extension of the Hindu Kush, and the origin of Afghanistan's Kabul, Arghandab, Helmand, Farah, Hari, Murghab, Balkh, and ...
Nazo Tokhi was born into a powerful and wealthy Pashtun family in the village of Spozhmayiz Gul, near Thazi, in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan, in or about the year 1651. Her father, Sultan Malakhai Tokhi, was a prominent head of the Tokhi Pashtun tribe and governor of the Ghazni region. [ 5 ]
Khalili was born in Kabul Province to an ethnic Tajik family, and came from the same village as Habibullah Kalakani. He wrote exclusively in Persian. [1] His father, Mirzā Muhammad Hussein, a Tajik was King Habibullah Khan's finance minister and owned mansions in Kabul and Jalalabad, but was later dismissed and hanged by Habibullah Khan's son and successor, Amanullah Khan. [2]