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Poetry of the modern-day region called Afghanistan has ancient roots, which is mostly written in Dari and Pashto. [1] Afghan poetry relates to the culture of Afghanistan and is an element of Afghan literature .
The poetry reflects diverse spiritual traditions within the country. In particular, many Afghan poets have been inspired by mystical and Sufism experiences. Afghan poetry is the oldest form of literature and has a rich written and oral tradition. In Afghanistan, poetic expression exists for centuries. The great poet Rumi was an Afghan poet who ...
Qahar Asi (Dari: قهار عاصی; September 26, 1956 – September 28, 1994) was a poet and agriculturist from Afghanistan.. He was born in Malima in Panjshir province.He is considered to be Afghanistan's most famous modern poet who has practiced both "New" and "Classic" poetry styles.
The Dari, which is a variety of Persian spoken in Iran and Tajikistan. A broader, more contextualized, study of Afghan proverbs would include comparisons of Afghan proverbs with Persian proverbs from Iran (for which several volumes are available in English) and with Tajik proverbs (e.g. comparing with those in Bell 2009) from Tajikistan.
He was the son of the treasurer Masdjidi Khan and grew up in an intellectual Afghan family. He was interested in music, art and literature since being a youth. He was a scholar of Ghulam Mohammad Maimanagi (born 1873; died 1935), who was a well-known painter, professor of visual arts and founder of the first art school in Afghanistan. After ...
Khalili was born in Kabul Province to an ethnic Tajik family, and came from the same village as Habibullah Kalakani. He wrote exclusively in Persian. [1] His father, Mirzā Muhammad Hussein, a Tajik was King Habibullah Khan's finance minister and owned mansions in Kabul and Jalalabad, but was later dismissed and hanged by Habibullah Khan's son and successor, Amanullah Khan. [2]
The book won the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. [6] Tess Taylor described the book's poetry in NPR as feeling "both anonymous and universal" and commented on the window it offered to the lives of women living in Afghanistan. [7] The book was described as a "rich and graceful collection" by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. in the Harvard Review.
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