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Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan . According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d.1874), Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) and ...
Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1764 –1846) of Lucknow was an Urdu poet. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the giants of Urdu literature. Aatish and Imam Baksh Nasikh were contemporary poets whose rivalry is well known. Both had hundreds of disciples. The era of Aatish-Nasikh was a golden era for Urdu poetry in Lucknow.
Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer ), was an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and is often remembered as one of the best ...
Shahbaz Khan Khattak. Khošāl Khān Khaṭak ( Pashto: خوشال خان خټک; Urdu, Persian: خوشحال خان خٹک; 1613 – 20 February 1689), also known as Khushal Baba ( Pashto: خوشال بابا ), was a 17th-century Pashtun poet, chief, and warrior. [ 2] Khushal Khan served the Mughal Empire protecting them from Pashtun warriors ...
Jaun Elia. Syed Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, [ 1] commonly known by his pen-name Jaun Elia ( Urdu: جون ایلیا, 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was a Pakistani poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar. One of the most prominent modern Urdu poets, popular for his unconventional ways, he "acquired knowledge of philosophy, logic, Islamic ...
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 ...
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 .
Wasif was born to Malik Muhammed Arif into a family of the Punjabi Awan clan on 15 January 1929 in Khushab, Punjab. [1]After getting his early religious education from his father, he matriculated from Government High School Khushab in 1944 before moving to Jhang, where his maternal grandfather was the headmaster of a Government High School, later graduating from Government Degree College Jhang ...