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Aab-e Hayat (Azad) in 1880.Introduction to Excerpts from Aab-e Hayat http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/12029 The book was described as "canon-forming" and "the most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century." The book is regarded as the first chronological history of Urdu poetry.
Aab-e hayat became the single most influential source for both anecdotes and historical theories about Urdu poetry. Its second edition in 1883 was incorporated into the officia ...
Aab-e hayat ( ur, آبِ حیات, lit. ''water of life'') is a commentary (or ''tazkira'') on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad Muhammad Husain Azad ( ur, — ; 5 May 1830 – 22 January 1910) was a scholar and an Urdu writer who wrote both prose and poetry, but he is mostly remembered for his prose. His best known work is Aab-e-Hayat ("Elixir of Life"). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tazkira (other)
Tadhkirah (), Arabic for "memorandum" or "admonition", is frequently used as part of the title of literary works of the nature of authoritative collections or summaries. It may refer to the following works: *''al-Tadhkira al-Harawiya fi al-hiyal al-harabiya'' ("al-Harawi's admonition regarding war stratagems") by Ali ibn abi bakr al-Harawi (d. 1215) *''Tazkirat ul Khwas'' by Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256) *Tazkirat al-Awliya (13th century), biographies of Sufi saints *''Al-Tadhkirah fi'ilm'' (13th century) by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274) * Tadhkirat al-huffaz (14th century), biographies of hadith masters *''Sharh al-tadhkirah'' (16th century), a commentary on al-Tusi's ''tadhkirah'' by Al-Birjandi *a work by Dawud al-Antaki (d. 1599) on medicine, natural history and the occult sciences *''Tadhkirat al-Nisyan'' (c. 1750), a biographical dictionary of the Moroccan rulers of Timbuktu, see Askiya dynasty * ''Tazkirat al-umara'' (1830), a Persian-language work by James Skinner (East I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Husain Azad
Muhammad Husain Azad ( ur, — ; 5 May 1830 – 22 January 1910) was a scholar and an Urdu writer who wrote both prose and poetry, but he is mostly remembered for his prose. His best known work is Aab-e-Hayat ("Elixir of Life").Profile of Muhammad Husain Azad on Urdu Adab website Published 11 July 2009, Retrieved 25 September 2020 Early life and family Muhammad Hussain was born in to a Persian immigrant family. His mother died when he was four years old. His father, Moulvi Muhammad Baqir was educated at the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880 Books
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscianus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 941 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 188 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes pro-consul of Africa from 188 to 189. Japan * Queen Himiko (or Shingi Waō) begins her reign in Japan (until 248). Births * April 4 – Caracalla (or Antoninus), Roman emperor (d. 217) * Lu Ji (or Gongji), Chinese official and politician (d. 219) * Sun Shao, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 241) Deaths * March 17 – Julian, pope and patriarch of Alexandria * Fa Zhen (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (b. AD 100) * Lucius Antistius Burrus, Roman politician (executed) * Ma Xiang, Chine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Indian Books
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
