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Takhallus
In Persian language, Persian, Turkic languages, Turkic, Hindustani language, Hindustani and Punjabi language, Punjabi, the word ''takhallus'' (from Arabic , ; ; ; ; , ) means a pen name. Pen names were widely adopted by Persian, Turkic, Urdu and Punjabi poets. The ''takhallus'' is often included in the ''maqta''', the last couplet (''Bayt (poetry), bayt'') of a ''ghazal''. History While ''ghazal'' originated in Arabia evolving from ''qasida'', some of the common features of contemporary ''ghazal'', such as including the ''takhallus'' in the ''maqta'', the concept of ''matla''', etc., did not exist in Arabic ''ghazal''. It was Persian ''ghazal'' which added these features. Common ''takhallus''es List of ''takhallus''es of some Persian poets: * ''Attar of Nishapur, Suman'' * ''Hafez'' * ''Jami'' * "''Khamushn''" (Rumi) * 'Saadi Shirazi, Sadi'' * "Ashfaq Attari" ''(Fani Badayuni)'' List of ''takhallus''es of some Urdu poets: * ''Faiz'' – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Faiz Ahmed ''Faiz'' * ''Fa ...
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Ghazal
''Ghazal'' is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry that often deals with topics of spiritual and romantic love. It may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss, or separation from the beloved, and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The ghazal form is ancient, tracing its origins to 7th-century Arabic poetry. It spread into the Indian subcontinent in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Ghurid Sultanate, Islamic Sultanate, and is now most prominently a form of poetry of many languages of South Asia and Languages of Turkey, Turkey. A poem of ghazal commonly consists of five to fifteen couplets, which are independent, but are linked – abstractly, in their theme; and more strictly in their poetic form. The structural requirements of ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan sonnet. In style and content, due to its highly allusive nature, ghazal has proved capable of a ...
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Maqta'
In Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry, the maqta (from Arabic ; ; ; ; ; ) is the final '' bayt'', or couplet, of a ''ghazal''. In this sense, it is the opposite of the '' matla'''. The poet's ''takhallus'', or pen name, is usually employed in the ''maqta'', often in very creative ways. A '' shayar'' can use the ''maqta'' in a variety of interesting ways. He can "talk to himself", "to somebody else", "refer to something" etc. For example ''Firaq'' Gorakhpuri, whose ''takhallus'' is the word for the common theme in Urdu poetry of the state of pining for the beloved, plays on his pen name and the word ''firaq'': Urdu: تو یہ نہ سمجھنا کے فِراق تیری فِراق میں ہیں فِراق اُسکی فِراق میں ہہ جو تیری فِراق میں ہہ Roman Urdu: :''Tu yeh na samajh ke Firaq teri Firaq mein hai'' :''Firaq uski Firaq mein hai jo teri Firaq mein hai'' English Translation: :Don't think that Firaq pines for you :Firaq pines for the one who pines ...
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Altaf Hussain Hali
Altaf Hussain Hali ( – ; 1837 – 31 December 1914), also known as Maulana Khawaja Hali, was an Urdu poet and writer. Early life He was born in Panipat to Khwaja Ezad Baksh and was a descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a Companions of the Prophet, close companion of the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad. Hali belonged to the Ansari (Panipat), Panipat Ansari clan, whose members included Lutfullah Khan Sadiq, the Diwan-i-Khalisa and governor of Old Delhi, Shahjahanabad in the Mughal empire, and Sher Afgan Panipati, the governor of Multan. Hali's father died when he was nine years old and his mother suffered from dementia. He was in the care of his elder brother Khwaja Imdad Husain after the death of his parents and when he was fifteen, upon the forcing of the elder brother, married his cousin Islam-un-Nisa.Hameed, 'Introduction', p. 26. Hali studied, and memorized, the Quran under Hafiz Mumtaz Husain, Arabic under Haji Ibrahim Husain and Persian lang ...
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Fani Badayuni
Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1961), better known as ''Fani Badayuni'' (his takhallus), was an Indian Urdu poet. Early life and education He was schooled at Government High School and graduated from Bareilly College in 1901, studied law at Aligarh Muslim University, earning L.L.B. degree in 1906. Career Badayuni started composing poetry around Eleven years of age. In Hyderabad ''Fani'' migrated to Hyderabad, India after the Nizam's diwan Maharaja Kishan Prasad 'Shad', an Urdu lover and poet, got Fani appointed in the department of education. Bibliography His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press. His other published works are: * Baqiyat-e-Fani (1926) published by Maktab-e-Agra * Irfaniyat-e-Fani (1938) published by Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu * Fani ki nadir tahriren: Havashi, tasrihat aur tanqidi ja'ize ke sath by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1968) * Intikhab-i Fani (Silsilah-yi matbu°at) by Shaukat °Ali Khan Fani Badayuni * Irfa ...
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Pen Name
A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to merge multiple persons into a single identifiable author, or for any of several reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's real identity may be known only to the publisher or may become common knowledge. In some cases, such as those of Elena Ferrante and Torsten Krol, a pen name may preserve an author's long-term anonymity. Etymology ''Pen name'' is formed by joining pen with name. Its earliest use in English is in the 1860s, in the writings of Bayard Taylor. The French-language phrase is used as a synonym for "pen name" ( means 'pen') ...
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Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer), was an Urdu poetry, Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal Empire, Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ''ghazal'' and is often remembered as one of the best poets of the Urdu language. His pen name (''takhallus'') was Mir. He spent the latter part of his life in the court of Asaf-ud-Daulah in Lucknow. His father's name was Meer Muttaqi. After his father's death, his step-brothers took control over his property. His step-uncle took care of him after he was orphaned and after the death of his step-uncle (paternal) his maternal step-uncle took care of him. The signature of his poetry is the grief he expresses. He has expressed a lot of grief over the downfall of his city, Delhi. Life The main source of information on Mir's life is his autobiography ''Zikr-e-Mir ...
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Persian Language
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible standard language, standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari, Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964), and Tajik language, Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate society, Persianate history in the cultural sphere o ...
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Persian Poetry
Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Caucasus, and Turkey, regions of Central Asia (such as Tajikistan), South Asia and the Balkans where the Persian language has historically been either the native or official language. For example, Rumi, one of the best-loved Persian poets, born in Balkh (in modern-day Afghanistan) or Wakhsh (in modern-day Tajikistan), wrote in Persian and lived in Konya (in modern-day Turkey), at that time the capital of the Seljuks in Anatolia. The Ghaznavids conquered large territories in Central and South Asia and adopted Persian as their court language. There is thus Persian literature from Iran, Mesopotamia, Azerbaijan, the wider Caucasus, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Tajikistan and other parts of Centra ...
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List Of Urdu-language Poets
The following is a List of Urdu-language poets. 13th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century * Mirza Muhammad Rafi, ''Sauda'' (1713–1780) * Siraj Aurangabadi, ''Siraj'' (1715–1763) * Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi, ''Soz'' (1720-1799) * Khwaja Mir Dard, ''Dard'' (1721–1785) * Qayem Chandpuri, Muhammad Qyamuddin Ali ''Qayem'' (1722–1793) * Mir Taqi Mir, ''Mir'' (1723–1810) * Nazeer Akbarabadi, ''Nazeer'' (1740–1830) * Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat, ''Jurat'' (1748–1810) * Mashafi Shaikh Ghulam Hamdani, ''Mas'hafi'' (1750–1824) * Insha Allah Khan 'Insha', ''Insha'' (1756–1817) * Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin, ''Rangin'' (1757–1835) * Bahadur Shah, ''Zafar'' (1775–1862) * Imam Baksh Nasikh, ''Nasikh'' (1776–1838) * Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish, ''Atish'' (1778–1846) * Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, ''Zauq'' (1789–1854) * Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, ''Ghalib'' (1797–1869) * Chhannu Lal Dilgeer, ''Ghulam Hussain'' (1780–1848) 19th century ...
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List Of Azerbaijani-language Poets
The following is a List of Azerbaijani-language poets. North Azerbaijan *Ashig Alasgar * Mammad Araz *Hamid Arzulu * Aşık Khanlar *Babi Badalov *Abbasgulu Bakikhanov * Vagif Bayatly Oner * Mirvarid Dilbazi * Piruz Dilenchi *Teymur Elchin *Fuzûlî * Fikrat Goja * Madina Gulgun * Mahammad Hadi * Izzeddin Hasanoglu * Almas Ildyrym * Hamlet Isakhanli *Jafar Jabbarly *Jafargulu agha Javanshir * Ahmad Javad *Huseyn Javid * Nusrat Kasamanli *Mikayil Mushfig *Imadaddin Nasimi *Khurshidbanu Natavan *Ali Nazmi *Mammed Said Ordubadi *Baba Punhan *Suleyman Rustam *Mirza Alakbar Sabir *Abbas Sahhat *Bahar Shirvani *Seyid Azim Shirvani *Khalil Rza Uluturk * Mehdigulu Khan Vafa *Molla Panah Vagif * Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh * Aliagha Vahid * Mirza Shafi Vazeh * Molla Vali Vidadi *Samad Vurgun * Gasim bey Zakir * Hikmat Ziya Iranian Azerbaijan * Kishvari * Piruz Dilenchi * Madina Gulgun * Habib Saher *Ismail I * Habibi *Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar References {{DEFAULTSORT:Azerbaijani-language p ...
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List Of Persian Poets
The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere. From the 7th to the 8th centuries * Bassam Kurd, poet (بسام کُرد) *Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi, poet (ابوالعباس مروزی) 9th century 10th century * Ferdowsi فردوسی * Abusaeid Abolkheir ابوسعید ابوالخیر * Rudaki رودکی * Abu Mansur Daqiqi ابومنصور دقیقی * Mansur Al-Hallaj منصور حلاج * Unsuri عنصری * Rabi'a Balkhi رابعه بلخی * Asjadi عَسجَدی * Farrukhi Sistani فرخی سیستانی * Isma'il Muntasir اسماعیل منتصیر * Kisai Marvazi کسائی مروزی * Abu Shakur Balkhi ابوشکور بلخی * Abu Tahir Khosrovani (ابوطاهر خسروانی) * Qabus, Qabus ibn Wushmagir, poet (died 1012) ...
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Bahadur Shah Zafar
Bahadur Shah II, (Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad; 24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862), usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah ''Zafar'' (; ''Zafar'' ), was the twentieth and last List of emperors of the Mughal Empire, Mughal emperor and a Hindustani language, Hindustani poet. His spouse was Zeenat Mahal. He was the second son and the successor to his father, Akbar II, who died in 1837. He was a titular Emperor, as the Mughal Empire existed in name only and his authority was limited only to the walled city of Old Delhi (Old Delhi, Shahjahanbad). Following his involvement in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British Raj, British deposed him and exiled him to Yangon, Rangoon in British rule in Burma, British-controlled Burma in late 1858, after convicting him on several charges. The title of Emperor of India, Empress of India was subsequently assumed by Queen Victoria (but only after 1876). Bahadur Shah Zafar's father, Akbar II, had been imprisoned by the British an ...
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