Urdu poetry is full of allusions to Arabic, Persian, Islamic, and Hindu traditions. Some shers may require an understanding of some difficult philosophical-theological concepts or need some light ...

I found vast amounts of poetry written by Hindu and Sikh poets ... considered a prophet in Islam). With Urdu gradually freeing itself from its ‘Muslim’ tag and reclaiming its rightful place ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), Dr Muhammad Yousuf Khushk lauded the valuable contribution of noted Urdu poet, dramatist, critic, columnist and fiction writer, Amjad ...

Poetry readings will be in Urdu with English translation in a special co-presentation ... This program has been supported by Dr. Azra Raza and is part of Creative Voices of Islam in Asia, supported by ...

Though it could not escape criticism for its shortcomings and some Islamic scholars ... still lingers on in Urdu’s critical and research works: categorising Urdu poetry on the basis of Delhi ...

Urdu belongs to no dogma—it’s a language of dissent.

Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a recognizable Urdu diction (Hindvi ... At the same time, classical images and symbols of Islamic poetry from ...

So he began translating his favorite poetry from Islam’s mystical Sufi tradition ... translated from their original Arabic, Turkish, Urdu and Persian, including those by the 13th-century Sufi ...