Urdu poetry

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Urdu poet)
Jump to: navigation, search

Urdu poetry (Urdu: اردو شاعری, Urdu Shayari) is one of the most dominant and prominent poetries of times and has many different colours & types. It has generated its root from Arabic and mainly from Persian and is an important part of Indian culture and Pakistani culture.

Like other languages, the history of Urdu Poetry does not have a firm starting point and shares origins and influences with other linguistic traditions within the Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani mix. Literary figures as far back as Kabir (1440 - 1518) and even Amir Khusro (1253-1325 AD) deserve mention as influences later Urdu poets draw on for inspiration as well as intellectual and linguistic sources. Meer, Dard, Ghalib, Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz are among the greatest poets of Urdu. The tradition is centered in the subcontinent. Following the Partition of India in 1947, it found major poets and scholars residing primarily in modern Pakistan and India. Mushairas (or poetic expositions) are today held in almost every major metropolitan area in the world. Over this period, Urdu poets have produced a large number of primarily poetic works.

Contents

The major genres of poetry found in Urdu are:

In the Urdu poetic tradition, most poets use a pen name called the takhallus. This can be either a part of a poet's given name or something else adopted as an identity. The traditional convention in identifying Urdu poets is to mention the takhallus at the end of the name. Thus, Ghalib, whose given name was Mirza Asadullah Beg (the prefix Mirza and suffix Beg identifying him as a Chughtai) and official name and title was Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan is referred to formally as Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, or, in common parlance, as just Mirza Ghalib. An interesting sidebar to this is that some poets end up having a part of their name repeated; thus, Faiz Ahmad Faiz.

The word takhallus is derived from Arabic, meaning "ending". This is because in the ghazal form, the poet would usually incorporate his or her pen name into the final couplet (maqta) of each poem as a type of 'signature'.

The most acclaimed pre-partition Urdu poets include Khwaja Mir Dard, Mir, Mir Baber Ali Anees, Ghalib, Zauq, Daag, Momin, Wali, Jigar Moradabadi, and Iqbal. Post-partition poets include Ali Sardar Jafri, Josh, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Akbar Ilahabadi, Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Amjad Hyderabadi Charagh Dehalvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Akhtar ul Iman, Kaifi Azmi, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Waheed Akhtar, Khalil ur Rahman Azmi, Shahriyar -- Kumar Mohd Akhlaq,Shakeb Jalali, Qateel Shifai, Nasir Kazmi, Sahir, Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, Ibne Insha, Fahmida Riyaz, Tabish Dehlvi, Safi Lakhnavi, Jon Elia, Parveen Shakir, Ahmed Faraz, Syed Al-e-Ahmad, Sahir, Nida Fazli, Abdul Ahad Saaz, Hasan Kamal, Javed Akhtar, Mumtaz Rashid, Bismil Azeemabadi, Shauq, Gulzar Dehlavi and Obaid Azam Azmi. See List of Urdu poets for a more comprehensive list.

In both India and Pakistan, Urdu poetry is written in the beautiful Nasta'liq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script. However, in India, where Urdu poetry is very popular, the Perso-Arabic is often found transliterated into the Devanāgarī script, as an aid for those Hindī-speakers, who can comprehend Urdu, but cannot read the Perso-Arabic script. With the dawn of the internet and globablisation, this poetry is often found written in Roman Urdu today. One of the more modern poets of Urdu poetry is Farhat Shahzad.

The following is a verse from an Urdu ghazal by Sher Khwaja Mir Dard:

Roman Urdu:

dosto dekhā tamāśhā yaāN kā bas.
tum raho ab hum to apne ghar chale

English translation:

Friends, I've seen the spectacle of this place- enough!
You stay here; I'm heading home.

 The external links in this article may not comply with Wikipedia's content policies.
Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links.
v • d • e
Poetry of different cultures and languages
American · Anglo-Welsh · Arabic · Australian · Bengali · Bishnupriya Manipuri · Biblical · British · Byzantine · Canadian · Chinese · Classical Sanskrit · Cornish · English · Finnish · French · Greek · Guernésiais · Hindi · Hebrew · Indian · Indian epic · Irish · Italian · Japanese · Javanese · Jèrriais · Kannada · Kashmiri · Korean · Latin · Latin American · Latino · Manx · Marathi · Malayalam · Nepali · Old English · Old Norse · Ottoman · Pakistani · Pashto · Persian · Rajasthani · Scottish · Serbian epic · Sindhi · Slovak · Spanish · Tamil · Telugu · Turkish · Urdu · Vedic Sanskrit · Welsh
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_poetry"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.