Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A large part of Ghalib's poetry focuses on the Naʽat, poems in praise of Muhammad, which indicates that Ghalib was a devout Muslim. [38] Ghalib wrote his Abr-i gauharbar (Urdu: ابر گہر بار, lit. 'The Jewel-carrying Cloud') as a Naʽat poem. [39] Ghalib also wrote a qasida of 101 verses in dedication to a Naʽat. [38]
Diwan-e-Ghalib is a poetry book written by the India born Persian and also Urdu poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib.It is a collection of the ghazals of Ghalib. [1] Though it does not include all of his ghazals as he was too choosy to include them all, still in many other copies of the Diwan Urdu scholars have tried to collect all of his precious works.
Ghalib was a chronicler of a turbulent period. One by one, Ghalib saw the bazaars – Khas Bazaar, Urdu Bazaar, Kharam-ka Bazaar, disappear, whole mohallas (localities) and katras (lanes) vanish. The havelis (mansions) of his friends were razed. Ghalib wrote that Delhi had become a desert. Water was scarce. Delhi was now “ a military camp”.
An illustrated headpiece from a mid-18th century collection of ghazals and rubāʻīyāt. The ghazal [a] is a form of amatory poem or ode, [1] originating in Arabic poetry [2] that often deals with topics of spiritual and romantic love.
Zauq was a prominent contemporary of Ghalib and in the history of Urdu poetry the rivalry of the two poets is quite well known. During his lifetime Zauq was more popular than Ghalib for the critical values in those days were mainly confined to judging a piece of poetry on the basis of usage of words, phrases and idioms. Content and style were ...
Atish-i-Gul (Poetry) 1959 Masud Hassan Rizvi: Urdu Drama aur Stage (History of Urdu drama and stage) 1960 Firaq Gorakhpuri: Gul-i-Naghma (Poetry) 1961 Imtiaz Ali 'Arshi' Diwan-i-Ghalib (A critical edition of Ghalib's poetry) 1962 Akhtar ul Iman: Yadein (Poetry) 1963 Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain: Aandhi Mein Chiragh (Sketches) 1964 Anand Narain Mulla
Yadgar-e-Ghalib (English: In Memory of Ghalib), also spelled Yadgare Ghalib or Yadgar-i-Ghalib, is an 1897 biography of Urdu poet Ghalib, written by his fellow writer and disciple Altaf Hussain Hali (1837–1914). It is considered to be the first authentic work on Ghalib's life, personality, poetry and prose.
Abedi compiled a two-volume book, Kuliyat-e-Ghalib Farsi, collecting the poetry of Mughal-era Mirza Ghalib in Persian, which was published by the Ghalib Institute in Delhi. Abedi believes that, while Mirza Ghalib was well known for his poetry in Urdu, he was more inclined towards Persian and composed excellent poems in that language. [2]