Bunyad: A Journal of Urdu Studies
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میرا جی اور جدید نظم کی تفہیم کا فریم ورک
No full textBesides Miraji’s relevance and influence as a major modern poet, his critical approach to the study of poetry is very significant and needs more mention. Up till the nineteen thirties, Urdu literary criticism was yet to develop and grow out of a repetitive circle of casual and informal writing into a more serious and analytical discourse. Miraji, in the early forties began to publish on a monthly basis, the study and analysis of a contemporary poem. These writings were the ground work for principles of understanding and interpreting ‘modern’ Urdu poetry. This article reviews Miraji’s contribution to Urdu literary criticism in this context.
(اردو مصنفین اور تحریکِ اتحادِ اسلامی(مولوی عبدالحق کی ایک نادر تحریر
No full textThis article introduces and reproduces, with necessary annotations, a rare piece of writing by Maulvi Abdul Haq. Abdul Haq’s article titled “Mustafa Kamil Pasha” was first published in the Deccan Review in 1908. It reflects his ideas about Pan-Islamism and also highlights the intellectual, religious and political inclinations of the intelligentsia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
اردو میں شکنتلا کی تقلیب: نمائندہ متون کا تحقیقی مطالعہ
No full textAdaptations, in their new social and historical contextualization sometimes result in a considerable shift from the source text, as was the case with some of the works produced at the Fort William College. This article studies the adaptation of Kalidas’ popular Sanskrit drama Shakuntala by Mirza Kazim Ali Jawan and Hafiz Abdullah in its literary and historical context
اردو کا پہلا نثری رسالہ اور اس کا مصنف
No full textSufis and Saints have played a prominent role in the development of early Urdu prose. They prepared the earliest Urdu texts in booklet form for purposes of preaching. Researchers have not yet reached a consensus on the first prose writing in Urdu. According to Prof. Hamid Hasan Qadri, Syed Ashraf Jahangir Samnan’s Risālah-i Taṣavvuf was the first such book whereas Hakim Shamsullah Qadri regards Sheikh Ainuddin Gunj al-llm as the first prose writer of Urdu. Maulvi Abdul Haq considers Merāj al-ʿᾹshiqī, which is wrongly attributed to Khawaja Banda Nawaz Gesu Daraz as the first Urdu prose writing. A few others have named Shams al-Ushaq as the first writer of ancient Dakkani prose. However, more recent studies indicate Miranji Shams al-Ushaq’s eldest son and Khalifa Shah Burhanuddin Janam Dakkani’s book Kalimat ul-Haqāiq as the first prose writing of the Urdu language