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Rekhta (website) Rekhta is an Indian web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5]
Urdu. v. t. e. Urdu developed during the 13th century, although the name "Urdu" did not exist at the time for the language. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu. He was thus called, the "father of ...
From 1950 to 1954, he served as co-editor of an Urdu monthly by the name of Saqi and wrote a monthly column Baatein. He also started a quarterly magazine by the name of Naya Daur. [5] He performed extensive research on the history of Urdu literature and penned five chronicle volumes with the title Tareekh-e-Adab-e-Urdu, covering 15-20 centuries ...
Ali Jawad Zaidi. Syed Ali Jawad Zaidi (10 March 1916 – 6 December 2004) was an Indian Urdu poet, scholar, and author of over 80 books in several languages. He was also an Indian independence activist, lawyer and later, a civil servant, but is best known for his work in Urdu literature.
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 poetry.
Died. 22 January 1910. Lahore, British India. (now in Punjab, Pakistan) Notable work. Aab-e-Hayat. Muhammad Husain Azad (Urdu: مُحمّد حُسَین آزاد — Mọḥammad Ḥusẹ̅n Āzād; 5 May 1830 – 22 January 1910) was a scholar and an Urdu writer who wrote both prose and poetry, but he is mostly remembered for his prose. His ...
India. Anjuman in India is known as "Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind)" (انجمنِ ترقیِ اردو (ہند. [5] It has 600 branches across India. [5] After the independence of India, Zakir Hussain become the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1949. Anjuman Taraqui Urdu (Hind) was shifted to Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh ...
David Matthews (Urdu: ڈیْوِڈ مَیتھِیُوز; 1942 – 5 March 2021) was a British scholar, author, and translator of Urdu literature and translator of Muhammad Iqbal and Mir Anees poetry in English. [3] He taught Urdu language and Urdu literature for over 30 years (1965–99) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University ...