A Course in Urdu Poetry
We are trying to recruit a few more students in the DC area for a possible seminar (A Course in Urdu Poetry) at SAIS/Johns Hopkins --
Teacher: Dr. Moazzam Siddiqi
Time Frame: May-July
Plese communicate with Maggie Ronkin (mronkin1@jhu.edu) if you are in the DC area and may be interested . . . .
Thanks in advance if you can provide some assistance in helping us link up with possibly interested folks in the area, Nazo.
Also proposed:
A SAIS-Johns Hopkins Advanced-Level Urdu Seminar: Urdu Poetry in Society
This course highlights the evolution of Urdu poetry from its beginnings in the sixteenth century Deccan to its linguistic and literary development in other important urban literary centers, e.g. Delhi (early eighteenth century), Lucknow (nineteenth century), and Lahore (twentieth century), and the advent of the modern era, including influences of European social and literary movements, and the Progressive Writers Movement.
For more information on the possible seminar, please contact Maggie Ronkin at mronkin1@jhu.edu .
A Course in Urdu Poetry
A historical perspective, highlighting the evolution of Urdu poetry from its beginnings in the 16th century Deccan to its development in other important literary centers of Delhi (early 18th century), Lucknow (19th century) and Lahore (early 20th century), and the advent of the modern era. A discussion of the literary environment in which this poetic tradition grew. The Indian and Indo-Persian elememts influencing this poetry in its formative years. The Hindi influences. The European, largely English influence. Religious and political influences in the wake of post-Industrial Revolution literary movements brought over largely from Britain. The impact of socialism and communism and the Progressive Writers Movement.
Study of selected writings of representative poets from each period.
The Dakhani Period: Quli Qutub Shah and Wali Dakhani
The Delhi Period: Mir Taqi Mir, Khwaja Mir Dard, Mirza
Rafi Sauda, Mir Hasan and Nazir Akbarabadi. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. Dagh.
The Lucknow Period: Jur’at, Insha and Mushafi. Nasikh and Atish. The Marsia poems and Mir Anis and Dabir.
The Modern Age
Ghalib’s response to the intellectual awakening ushered in by the Industrial Revolution.
Ghalib’s younger contemporaries, Hali and Azad and the modern elements in their poetry.
Muhammad Iqbal, the Poet-Philosopher of the East and West.
Some poets of the Progressive Writers Movement and other Modern Poets: Mira Ji, Akhtarul Iman, Ali Sardar Jafri, Majaz Lucknawi, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, N. M. Rashid.
Teacher: Dr. Moazzam Siddiqi
Time Frame: May-July
Plese communicate with Maggie Ronkin (mronkin1@jhu.edu) if you are in the DC area and may be interested . . . .
Thanks in advance if you can provide some assistance in helping us link up with possibly interested folks in the area, Nazo.
Also proposed:
A SAIS-Johns Hopkins Advanced-Level Urdu Seminar: Urdu Poetry in Society
This course highlights the evolution of Urdu poetry from its beginnings in the sixteenth century Deccan to its linguistic and literary development in other important urban literary centers, e.g. Delhi (early eighteenth century), Lucknow (nineteenth century), and Lahore (twentieth century), and the advent of the modern era, including influences of European social and literary movements, and the Progressive Writers Movement.
For more information on the possible seminar, please contact Maggie Ronkin at mronkin1@jhu.edu .
A Course in Urdu Poetry
A historical perspective, highlighting the evolution of Urdu poetry from its beginnings in the 16th century Deccan to its development in other important literary centers of Delhi (early 18th century), Lucknow (19th century) and Lahore (early 20th century), and the advent of the modern era. A discussion of the literary environment in which this poetic tradition grew. The Indian and Indo-Persian elememts influencing this poetry in its formative years. The Hindi influences. The European, largely English influence. Religious and political influences in the wake of post-Industrial Revolution literary movements brought over largely from Britain. The impact of socialism and communism and the Progressive Writers Movement.
Study of selected writings of representative poets from each period.
The Dakhani Period: Quli Qutub Shah and Wali Dakhani
The Delhi Period: Mir Taqi Mir, Khwaja Mir Dard, Mirza
Rafi Sauda, Mir Hasan and Nazir Akbarabadi. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. Dagh.
The Lucknow Period: Jur’at, Insha and Mushafi. Nasikh and Atish. The Marsia poems and Mir Anis and Dabir.
The Modern Age
Ghalib’s response to the intellectual awakening ushered in by the Industrial Revolution.
Ghalib’s younger contemporaries, Hali and Azad and the modern elements in their poetry.
Muhammad Iqbal, the Poet-Philosopher of the East and West.
Some poets of the Progressive Writers Movement and other Modern Poets: Mira Ji, Akhtarul Iman, Ali Sardar Jafri, Majaz Lucknawi, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, N. M. Rashid.
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