While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, ...

Sharjeel Imam, a PhD scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), completed five years behind bars. Meanwhile, his bail ...

Tahir Masood ...

Jamia Millia Islamia has enriched its manuscript collection with the Urdu translation of Kamashastra. The university also ...

He lauded Sufism as India’s pluralistic heritage, saying its saints recited the verses of Quran and also listened to the Vedas ... a precursor to modern Hindi and Urdu. 2. Much of what we know about ...

Hassan Abbas, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. and author of the “Return of the Taliban,” ...

In Urdu, prose poetry or ‘nasri nazm’ is purported to have begun with Sajjad Zaheer, and subsequently crafted, among others, by Meeraji, Ahmad Hamesh, Wazir Agha, Kishwar Naheed, M.

Hybrid languages such as Arwi and Arabi-Malayalam were prevalent in Tamil Nadu and Kerala until the 19th century. Now, a U.K.

He remained associated with Radio Pakistan. During his radio career, Nasir Kazmi wrote sketches of classical Urdu poets Mir Taqi Mir, Nazir, Wali, Insha and so on, which became very popular. His first ...