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Ghazal poets frequently use this story as a simile or reference point to portray their love as similarly obsessive and pure. [40] Urdu ghazal is a form of lyrical poetry that originated in the Urdu language during the Mughal Empire. It consists of rhyming couplets, with each line sharing the same meter. [42]
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.
Qamar Jalalvi is regarded as one of the best classical Urdu Ghazal poets. His ghazal poetry has a unique simplicity of expression. A poet from the age of eight, Qamar Jalalvi's writing had become quite popular by the time he was in his 20s. He lived a life of financial hardship, working for many years at bicycle repair shops.
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. Aatish is mostly known for his ghazals, and for his amazing and different style of poetry.
Mahirul Qadri (Urdu ماہر القادری) whose real name was Manzoor Hussain, was a writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in village Kesar Kalan Tahsil Debai on 30 July 1906, in Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh India. [1] [2] He studied at Aligarh Muslim University. In 1947 he migrated to Karachi Pakistan.
In 1996, Ali compiled and edited the world's first anthology of English-language ghazals, published by Wesleyan University Press in 2000, as Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. (Fewer than one in ten of the ghazals collected in Real Ghazals in English observe the constraints of the form.) A ghazal is composed of couplets, five or more.
Mirza Ghalib is considered one of the leading literary authority on Urdu poetry. [3] He lived in Delhi [4] and died in 1869. The literal meaning of shayar (shaa'ir) is poet. [5] There are more than 30 types of Urdu poetry, also known as shayari. Examples of shayari are ghazal, sher, nazm, marsiya, qita and many more. [6]
Ghulam Muhammad Qasir (Urdu: غلام محمد قاصر 4 September 1944 – 20 February 1999) was a Pakistani Urdu poet. [1] He was considered to be one of the finest modern poets of Urdu Ghazal. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi first introduced him in his famous literary journal "Fanoon" in 1977. [ 4 ]