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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 ...
This category may include the literary movements in both in India and Pakistan and some other Urdu speaking countries. Pages in category "Urdu-language literary movements" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in Urdū Lashkari Zaban ("Battalionese language") title in Nastaliq script.. The Urdu movement was a socio-political movement aimed at making Urdu (the standardized register of the Hindustani language) the universal lingua-franca and symbol of the cultural and political identity of the Muslim communities of the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj.
Ahmed Ali (Urdu: احمد علی; 1 July 1910 – 14 January 1994) was a Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar.A pioneer of the modern Urdu short story, his works include the short story collections: Angarey (Embers), 1932; Hamari Gali (Our Lane), 1940; Qaid Khana (The Prison), 1942; and Maut Se Pehle (Before Death), 1945.
The Progressive Writers' Association or the Progressive Writers' Movement of India or Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (Urdu: انجمن ترقی پسند مصنفینِ ہند) or Akhil Bhartiya Pragatishil Lekhak Sangh (Hindi: अखिल भारतीय प्रगतिशील लेखक संघ) was a progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India.
Iqbal's first published work, with likely date of 1904, was an introductory economics textbook which he wrote as result of his first proper job - teaching of history and political economy to students of Bachelor of Oriental Learning (B.O.L.) in Urdu and translation of English and Arabic works into Urdu at the University Oriental College, Lahore.: [3]
In view of the nascent movement's need to have its own periodical that could deal regularly with crucial issues connected to it, two Ahmadi newspapers were established within Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's lifetime, the first of these was the Urdu weekly al-Hakam, established in October 1897 and edited by his disciple Shaykh Yaqub Ali; the second was the Urdu weekly al-Badr which began publishing in ...
Aab-e hayat (Urdu: آبِ حیات, lit. water of life) is a commentary (or tazkira) on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad in 1880. [1] The book was described as "canon-forming" and "the most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century." [1] [2] The book is regarded as the first chronological history of Urdu ...