Zoraiz

نوآبادیاتی عہد میں اردو شاعری اور متغیر تانیثی تصورات (مولانا حالی، ز خ ش اور حسرت موہانی کا خصوصی مطالعہ)

ڈاکٹرطارق ہاشمی — 2026-06-24

This article examines the transformation of feminist consciousness and the evolving representation of women in Urdu poetry during the colonial period in India. It situates Urdu poetry within the broader context of colonial modernity, intellectual reform, and socio-cultural change brought about by Western education and Enlightenment thought. Focusing specifically on the poetic works of Maulana Altaf Husain Hali, Zahida Khatoon Sherwania (Z. K. Sheerwaniya), and Hasrat Mohani, the study explores how changing perceptions of womanhood, gender roles, and female agency were articulated through poetic discourse.

The article analyzes Hali’s reformist poems Munajat-e-Bewah and Chup Ki Dad as foundational texts that combine moral persuasion, religious symbolism, and social critique to foreground women’s suffering and demand educational and social reform within an Islamic ethical framework. It further examines Zahida Khatoon Sherwania’s long poem Aaina-e-Haram, highlighting its protest-oriented feminist voice, its dialogic engagement with patriarchal authority, and its transformation of female silence into collective resistance. Her poetry is shown to expand feminist discourse beyond domestic concerns toward political consciousness and global Muslim solidarity.

In contrast, the study reads Hasrat Mohani’s ghazals as representing a subtler but equally significant shift in gender imagination. His portrayal of the beloved departs from the conventional passive and cruel figure of classical Urdu ghazal, presenting instead a socially grounded, emotionally responsive, and corporeally present woman reflective of emerging modern sensibilities.

The article argues that Urdu poetry of the colonial era played a crucial historical and aesthetic role in reshaping feminist thought by negotiating tradition and modernity, reform and resistance, ultimately contributing to a more humanized and empowered representation of women in South Asian literary culture.

ڈیجیٹل عہد میں غالب کی بازیافت

ڈاکٹر عارفہ اقبال — 2026-06-24

This study explores how Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s work is being rediscovered in the digital age. Today, online platforms have made his poetry, letters, and manuscripts easily available to readers around the world. However, this research argues that easy access does not always lead to better understanding.

The study focuses on five main areas: the idea of Digital Humanities, the digitization of manuscripts, and the challenges of digital preservation. It shows that while digital tools have helped preserve and share Ghalib’s work, problems still exist. These include errors in Urdu text recognition, wrong attribution of poetry on social media platforms, and unreliable information generated by artificial intelligence.

The research also looks at computer-based analysis of Ghalib’s poetry and explains that such methods cannot fully capture the depth, complexity, and multiple meanings in his work.

In conclusion, the study finds that the digital age has solved the problem of access but not the problem of understanding. It suggests the need for a reliable Urdu-based digital platform, better cooperation between scholars, and improved digital awareness so that Ghalib’s work can be properly understood, not just widely available.

غزلیاتِ آصف الدَّولَہ: تدوین و تعارف

ڈاکٹر ساجد صدیق نظامی — 2026-06-24

Lucknow had become an important center of Urdu poetry in north India in the late 18th century. Among the many other political cum socio-cultural reasons, patronage by the court of Awadh was also a major reason for the promotion of the poetic tradition at Lucknow. Nawab Vizier Shuja-ul-Doulah and after him, his son and successor Nawab Vizier Asaf-ul-Doulah patronized many prominent poets e.g. Mirza Sauda, Mir Taqi Mir, Mir Soz, Mir Hasan, etc. Asaf-ul-Doulah was also a poet. Many contemporary sources evidenced that his Diwan and Kulliyat had been compiled in his life but his works are still unpublished. Copies of his poetic works are found in different libraries. One of the copies is part of the British Library’s manuscript section in London, UK. This manuscript seems contemporary to him and contains remarkable selections from his poetry.
This article presents Asaf-ul-Doulah as a poet, introduces the of above-said Diwan of him and produces the editing of his Ghazals.

ناصر کاظمی کی شاعری میں عکس ِ جاناں

ڈاکٹر تنویر الرحمٰن — 2026-06-24

A prominent name among the modern Urdu Ghazal poets after the partition of India is Nasir Kazmi. He has a charming blend of classical tradition and modernity of Urdu poetry. In his Ghazal, Nasir Kazmi has described the beauty of nature as well as the subjects of love and affection and the beloved. In his description of love and affection, his tone is gentle and the description is closer to reality. He not only sings songs of love and affection for the beloved, but also describes the bitterness of grief. He has kept local and traditional values in mind in his description of the beloved. He has not presented an imaginary form of the lover and affection, but has presented it in the form of the movements and silences and psychology of a common man of the present era. Nasir Kazmi has beautifully described the attitudes of the beloved as well as his mental and psychological motivations and feelings in his Ghazal. Nasir's love for the beloved rises above the desire for physical connection and descends into the personality of the beloved. This article describes Nasir's concept of love and the beloved.

عشقؔی اورجالؔب کےشعری اشتراکات

امجد علی بُھٹَّہ — 2026-06-24

There are many resemblances between Persian and Urdu literatue. This is a fact that Persian did a major role to build Urdu language and literature. Urdu writers and poets accepted the effects of Persian writers. Urdu poet Habib Jalib was very resembling to Persian poet Ishqi regarding his thinking and style.Ishqi is a famous and trend setter Persian poet. His life is a model of protest that influenced later Iranian poets as well as the Iranian people.Jalib is a Pakistani Urdu poet whose identity is his resistive style of poetry. Since the relationship between Persian and Urdu language is very deep and many genres have been transferred from Persian to Urdu, therefore, despite the abundance of themes, there are similarities between the works of Persian and Urdu poets.Ishqi and Habib Jalib are prominent poepts of this region. They are considered a milestone of resistance poetry. In this article their poetic similarities have been analyzed.

جانگلوس میں پنجاب کے ثقافتی عناصر

حسن محمود — 2026-06-24

Shaukat Siddiqui’s novel Jangloos stands as a remarkable example of socio-cultural realism in Urdu fiction, portraying with depth the rural social structure, class struggle, and cultural consciousness of Punjab. The novel transcends a mere depiction of feudal exploitation to emerge as a cultural and civilizational document that encapsulates the idioms, customs, folk values, and agrarian way of life of Punjab. Through his journalistic insight and keen observation, Siddiqui presents Punjab’s distinctive cultural phenomena in both symbolic and realistic modes. Characters like Lali and Raheem Dad are not mere criminals; they symbolize an oppressed society crushed under the weight of feudal tyranny, class disparity, and social contradictions. The novel’s authentic use of local idioms, dialects, and linguistic textures elevates it into a credible cultural text that mirrors Punjab’s civilization, politics, and popular consciousness. The present study examines Jangloos as a dynamic cultural narrative, exploring how the formative elements of Punjabi culture interact with the broader social consciousness embedded within the novel.