Persian immensely influenced so much so that nearly half of Urdu vocabulary is either directly borrowed from Persian or is an altered form of Persian usage. Without knowing some basic Persian ...

Marsiya is one of the genres that Urdu language has borrowed from Persian literature, which in turn had borrowed it from Arabic. Despite the fact that the Persian marsiya and the Iranian influence ...

Mirza Ghalib, born on December 27, 1797, in Agra, was a well-known poet in the Persian and Urdu languages. Today, he remains one of the most popular and influential masters of the Urdu language ...

He lived at a time when the Urdu language and poetry was at a formative stage – and his instinctive aesthetic sense helped him strike a balance between the indigenous expression and new enrichment ...

At no time in Afghanistan’s history did Urdu have more influence in the corridors of power in Kabul than in the 1930s. After Persian, Urdu was also the most widely spoken language by the ...