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Anwar opined that Amir, through Nyanyi Sunyi, brought a new style to the Indonesian language, with its "compactly violent, sharp, and yet short" sentences. [1] In a 1945 article he wrote (translation by Raffel), "Before Amir (Hamzah) one could call the old poetry a destructive force; but what a bright light he shone on the new language". [1]
Amir Khusrau was a prolific classical poet associated with the royal courts of more than seven rulers of the Delhi Sultanate. He wrote many playful riddles, songs and legends which have become a part of popular culture in South Asia. His riddles are one of the most popular forms of Hindavi poetry today. [25]
An illustrated manuscript of one of Amir Khusrau's poems. A page of Amir Khusrow's riddles. The Riddles of Amir Khusrow were developed during the royal courts of more than seven rulers of the Delhi Sultanate. During this time, Khusrow wrote not only many playful riddles, but songs and legends which have been a part of popular culture in South ...
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. The topics ...
Illuminated frontispiece of the poetry of Rumi, c. 1461. The Sufi conception of love was introduced first by Rabia of Basra, a female mystic from the eighth century. Throughout Rumi's work the "death" and "love" appear as the dual aspects of Rumi's conception of self-knowledge. Love is understood to be "all-consuming" in the sense that it ...
A notable stylistic innovation by Amir Khosrow is the introduction of each significant section with a passage resembling andarz, followed by an anecdote (hekayat), the narrative of Alexander, and concluding with a saqi-nama or moghanni-nama. Key Persian story components are present in Amir Khosrow's version: the journey to China, the ...
Eren reveals his plan was much bigger than Armin thought. He purposely became an object of hate, triggered the Rumbling, and awaited his friends to come and put an end to him.
In the literatures of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, a jangnama is an epic or heroic poem.The word is of Persian origin. In Kashmiri, jangnama refers to epic poetry generally; but jangnama also identifies a specific genre of poetry that deals with Islamic conquests.