Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While, It tends to be dominated by...

later gave us the Hindi and Urdu languages. Matthews, David John; Shackle, C.; Husain, Shahanara (1985). Urdu literature. Urdu Markaz; Third World Foundation...

Urdu (/ˈʊərduː/; اردو, [ʊɾˈduː] ; ALA-LC: Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of...

Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India...

The Persian language and Urdu have had an intricate relationship throughout the history of the latter. Persian historically played a significant role in...

preserving Urdu, Persian and Arabic literature, compiling them into his Thulatha Ghusala. Shortly after the Bengali Language Movement of 1952, Urdu culture...

Pakistani literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947...

"Parrot of India" (Tuti-e-Hind), and has been called the "father of Urdu literature." Khusrau is regarded as the "father of qawwali" (a devotional form...

Assamese, Odia, and Maithili appeared. Thereafter literature in various dialects of Hindi, Persian and Urdu began to appear as well. In 1913, Bengali poet...

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...

people. The historical form of Deccani sparked the development of Urdu literature during the late-Mughal period. Deccani arose as a lingua franca under...

Haq (Urdu: مولوی عبد الحق) (20 April 1870 – 16 August 1961) was a scholar and a linguist, who some call Baba-e-Urdu (Urdu: بابا اردو) (Father of Urdu). Abdul...

India's struggle for independence, and a scholar of Islam and Urdu literature. It was the only Urdu university in India until the second university was built...

Hindi. Matthews, David John; Shackle, C.; Husain, Shahanara (1985). Urdu literature. Urdu Markaz; Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies....

although the name "Urdu" did not exist at the time for the language. Urdu literature originated some time around the 14th century in present-day North India...

Judeo-Urdu (Urdu: یہود اردو, romanized: yahūd urdū; Hebrew: אורדו יהודית, romanized: ūrdū yehūdīt) was a dialect of the Hindustani language spoken by...

182 Ali Jawad Zaidi, A History of Urdu literature, Sahitya Akademi (1993), p. 181 D.J. Matthews, Urdu Literature, South Asia Books (1985), p. 86 A website...

not capable of this secret, sing about red wine and sweet lips. In Urdu literature, red poppies, or "Gul-e-Lalah", are often a symbol of martyrdom, and...

Urdu literary web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature....

those poets who wrote on Varanasi in Urdu. In comparison to literature in the other two languages, English literature has fewer works that give Varanasi...

Urdu and Persian. Although his Persian Divan (body of work) is at least five times longer than his Urdu Divan, his fame rests on his poetry in Urdu....

Muhajir culture (Urdu: مہاجر ثقافت) is the culture of the various Muslims of different ethnicities who migrated mainly from North India (after the partition...

brought a distinctive feminine voice to Urdu literature. Since her death, the "Parveen Shakir Urdu Literature Festival" has been held every year in Islamabad...

contains Urdu text. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters running left to right or other symbols instead of Urdu script. The Urdu alphabet...

promoting Urdu literature. Under his leadership, the Rekhta Foundation has curated the Rekhta website, a comprehensive repository of Urdu literary works...

Movement in Urdu literature was the strongest movement after Sir Syed's education movement. The progressives contributed to Urdu literature some of the...

The Hindi–Urdu controversy arose in 19th century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen...

(1916–1994), Pakistani author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics Abdul Latif Siddiqui (born 1943), Bangladeshi politician...

there are some original early Urdu masnawīs. Middle Urdu masnawī became prominent in the 12th/18th century, when Urdu literature broke away from the Dakkanī...

Origin and development of Hindi/Urdu literature. Deep & Deep Publications. p. 204. He was influenced by Persian and Urdu poetry, especially by Omar Khayyam...