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Songs of Kabir (New York: MacMillan, 1915) [1] is an anthology of poems by Kabir, a 15th-century Indian spiritual master. It was translated from Hindi to English by Rabindranath Tagore , a Nobel Prize-winning author and noted scholar.
Some scholars state that the sexual imagery in some of Kabir's poems reflect a mystic Sufi Islam influence, wherein Kabir inverts the traditional Sufi representation of a God-woman and devotee-man longing for a union, and instead uses the imagery of Lord-husband and devotee-bride. [53]
Poetry analysis was also employed in other forms of medieval Arabic poetry from the 9th century, notably, for the first time, by the Kufan grammarian Tha'lab (d. 904) in his collection of terms with examples Qawa'id al-shi'r (The Foundations of Poetry), [30] by Qudama ibn Ja'far in the Naqd al-shi'r (Poetic Criticism), by al-Jahiz in the al ...
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Vol. 2. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-18572-6. Moreh, S. (1976). Modern Arabic Poetry 1800–1970: The Development of its Forms and Themes under the Influence of Western Literature. Studies in Arabic Literature, 5. Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-04795-6
Ajmal Khan Khattak with Kabir Stori and Afzal Khan Lala. Ajmal Khan Khattak (Pashto: اجمل خټک; Urdu: اجمل خٹک; 15 September 1925 – 7 February 2010) was a Pakistani politician, writer and Pashto language poet from North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), who served as the President of Awami National Party.
Another theme present throughout Punjabi poetry is the paradoxical idea of life and how although wealth and knowledge is presented to a person, it is that wealth and knowledge that can distance them from the real meaning and truth of life. [14] Punjabi poetry is written in a Perso-Urdu style with some Arabic and Persian vocabulary.
Many of Yusuf al-Nabahani's poems, books, and teachings have remained, but very little is printed about his personal life and activities. [citation needed] He worked and campaigned against the Wahhabi movement and the reformers in Cairo like Muhammad Abduh and al-Afghani who were changing Sunni Islam.
Kabir (Indian Sufi) Muhammad Mojlum Khan (Bangladesh-born British) Kan Chun (also known as Mohamad Omar) Kaykobad (Bangladesh)(also known as Kazem Ali Quereshi) Kazi Kader Newaj (Bangladesh) Kazi Nazrul Islam (India /Bangladesh) Khaled Hosseini (Afghan-American) Khondakar Ashraf Hossain (Bangladeshi) Khurram Murad (Pakistan) Khurshidbanu ...