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Illustrated page from a diwan (poetry collection) of the Pashtun Sufi poet Rahman Baba. Abdur Rahman Baba died in 1706 CE, and his tomb is housed in a large domed shrine, or mazar, on the southern outskirts of Peshawar (Ring Road Hazar Khwani). The site of his grave is a popular place for poets and mystics to gather to recite his popular poetry.
Khwaja Hafiz recites his poetry in the 17th century. The Urdu ghazal is a literary form of the ghazal-poetry unique to the Indian subcontinent, written in the Urdu standard of the Hindostani language. It is commonly asserted that the ghazal spread to South Asia from the influence of Sufi mystics in the Delhi Sultanate. [1]
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 .
Sarkash Sindhi – Prominent poet of Sindhi language Sawan Faqir – Sindhi poet Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Shah Abdul Latif – 18th-century Sindhi Sufi writer Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Poets of Punjabi language (Shahmukhi: پنجاب دے شاعر, Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੇ ਕਵੀ). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
There is a nascent language movement, [4] and in recent decades Hindko-speaking intellectuals have started promoting the view of Hindko as a separate language. [5] There is a literary tradition based on Peshawari , [ 6 ] the urban variety of Peshawar in the northwest, and another one based on the language of Abbottabad in the northeast. [ 7 ]
Ustad Bukhari (Sindhi: اُستاد بُخارِي) Urdu (استاد بخاری) (16 January 1930 – 9 October 1992), born "Punhal Shah", a name he later changed to Syed Ahmed Shah Bukhari, was a prominent progressive Sindhi-language poet of Sindh, Pakistan.
Most of Shakir's ghazalyaat contain five to ten couplets, often - though not always - inter-related. Sometimes, two consecutive couplets may differ greatly in meaning and context [For example, in one of her works, the couplet 'That girl, like her home, perhaps/ Fell victim to the flood' is immediately followed by 'I see light when I think of you/ Perhaps remembrance has become the moon'].