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Nagri means "of or pertaining to an abode (nagar)". Hence, Sylhet Nagri denotes from the abode or city of Sylhet. In recent times it has come to be known as Sylheti Nagri although this name was not used in the classical manuscripts such as Pohela Kitab by Muhammad Abdul Latif. [13]
Kitab Radd-e-Kufr (কেতাব রদ্দে কুফুর) by Sadeq Ali (1874, Sylhet) [4] [5] Saheeh Sohor Chorit (ছহী সহর চরিত) by Asad (1878, Sylhet) [6] Shitalong Faqir-er Rag (শিতালং ফকিরের রাগ) by Muhammad Salimullah, aka Shitalong Shah (Kazidahar, Sonai) [7]
The Nāgarī script is the ancestor of Devanagari, Nandinagari and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit.The term is sometimes used as a synonym for Devanagari script.
Ibrahim Adil Shah II of the Bijapur Sultanate produced Kitab-e-Navras (Book of the Nine Rasas), a work of musical poetry written entirely in Deccani. [8] In 18the century a collection of Urdu Ghazal poetry, named Gulzar-e-Mahlaqa , authored by Mah Laqa Bai —the first female Urdu poet to produce a Diwan—was published in Hyderabad.
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 (افسانہ).
Sher Muhammad Khan (Urdu: شیر مُحمّد خان), (Punjabi, شیر محمد خان), better known by his pen name Ibn-e-Insha, (Urdu: اِبنِ اِنشا), (Punjabi, ابن انشا) (15 June 1927 – 11 January 1978) [1] [2] [3] was a Pakistani Urdu poet, humorist, travelogue writer and newspaper columnist.
Muzaffar Warsi (23 December 1933 – 28 January 2011; Urdu: مظفر وارثی) was a Pakistani poet, essayist, lyricist, and a scholar of Urdu. He began writing more than five decades ago. He wrote a rich collection of na`ats, as well as several anthologies of ghazals and nazms, and his autobiography Gaye Dinon Ka Suraagh.
Ismail Merathi (1844–1917) was an Indian Urdu poet, schoolteacher, and educationist from the Mughal–British era. His poems for children like Nasihat, Barsaat, Humaari Gaye, Subah Ki Aamad, Sach Kaho, Baarish Ka Pehla Qatra, Pan Chakki, Shafaq, and several others are part of the primary school curriculum in Pakistan. [1]