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Javaid delivers lectures on various topics of philosophy, religion, and literature. He is known for his comprehensive analyses of the literature of Rumi, Saadi Shirazi, Meer Taqi Meer, Ghalib, and other notable Persian and Urdu poets. [2] [3] [4]
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).
The most common form of Persian poetry comes in the ghazal, a love-themed short poem made of seven to twelve verses and composed in the monorhyme scheme. [14] Urdu poetry is known for its richness, multiple genres, traditions of live public performances through Mushairas, Qawwali and Ghazal singing in modern times.
Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi, the poet first believed to have coined the name "Urdu" around 1780 AD for a language that went by a multiplicity of names before his time. [1] Mirza Muhammad Rafi, Sauda (1713–1780) Siraj Aurangabadi, Siraj (1715–1763) Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi, Soz (1720-1799) Khwaja Mir Dard, Dard (1721–1785)
Miraji's literary output was immense but he published very little of his poetry during his lifetime. However, Khalid Hasan, in his article "Meera Sen's forgotten lover," [citation needed] records that during Miraji's lifetime four collections of Miraji's works were published by Shahid Ahmed Dehlavi, and one by Maktaba-e-Urdu, Lahore.
The Urdu ghazal is a literary form of the ghazal-poetry unique to the Indian subcontinent, written in the Urdu standard of the Hindostani language. It is commonly asserted that the ghazal spread to South Asia from the influence of Sufi mystics in the Delhi Sultanate .
The "Khizr-i-Rah" ("The Guide of the Path") is a poem in Urdu written in 1922 by Sir Muhammad Iqbal [1] and published in his 1924 collection Bang-i-dara. [2] It deals with the subject of the political future of Muslims. The poem is an imaginary conversation between Iqbal and Khizr (The Guide).
Bait Bazi (Urdu: بیت بازی) is a verbal game and a genre of Urdu poetry played by composing verses of Urdu poems. The game is common among Urdu speakers in Pakistan and India . It is similar to Antakshari , the Sistanian Baas-o-Beyt , the Malayalam Aksharaslokam and, more generally, the British Crambo .