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  2. Adab (gesture) - Wikipedia

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    Adab (Hindustani: آداب (Nastaleeq), आदाब (Devanagari)), from the Arabic word Aadaab (آداب), meaning respect and politeness, is a hand gesture used in the Indian subcontinent, by the Urdu -speaking while greeting. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It involves raising the right hand in front of the eyes with palm inwards, while the upper torso is bent ...

  3. Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu - Wikipedia

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    India. Anjuman in India is known as "Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind)" (انجمنِ ترقیِ اردو (ہند. [5] It has 600 branches across India. [5] After the independence of India, Zakir Hussain become the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in 1949. Anjuman Taraqui Urdu (Hind) was shifted to Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh ...

  4. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu. v. t. e. Urdu developed during the 13th century, although the name "Urdu" did not exist at the time for the language. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu. He was thus called, the "father of ...

  5. Masud Husain Khan - Wikipedia

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    First published in 1948, the book, originally his PhD dissertation, has run into many editions in India and Pakistan. His second book Urdu Zaban-o-Adab written in 1954 was equally popular. Husain was the first to analyse the words of Urdu from the phonetic and phonological point of view.

  6. Mir Taqi Mir - Wikipedia

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    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. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and is often remembered as one of the best ...

  7. Gopi Chand Narang - Wikipedia

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    Gopi Chand Narang. Gopi Chand Narang (11 February 1931 – 15 June 2022) [1] was an Indian theorist, literary critic, and scholar who wrote in Urdu and English. His Urdu literary criticism incorporated a range of modern theoretical frameworks including stylistics, structuralism, post-structuralism, and Eastern poetics.

  8. Aziz Ahmad (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Aziz Ahmad (writer) Aziz Ahmad (11 November 1914 in Hyderabad, India – 16 December 1978 in Toronto, Canada) was a Pakistani-Canadian academic who worked as a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Toronto and is best known for his work in Islamic history with a focus on South Asia. In addition, he was a noted Urdu poet, novelist ...

  9. Khurshid Rizvi - Wikipedia

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    Rizvi was born in Amroha, British India to a Sunni Saddat family on 8 December 1940. In 1948, he immigrated with his family to Montgomery (now Sahiwal) in Punjab, Pakistan. He studied at Islamia High School and Government High School and graduated from Government College, Montgomery in 1959. He moved to the Oriental College, Lahore for higher ...