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Aijaz Ahmad. Aijaz Ahmad ( Hindi: ऐजाज़ अहमद, Urdu: اعجاز احمد; 1941 – 9 March 2022) was an Indian-born American Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, and political commentator. He was the Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Humanities’ Department of Comparative Literature. [1]
Habib Jalib was born as Habib Ahmad on 24 March 1928 in a village near Hoshiarpur, Punjab, British India. [1] He migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India. [1] [5] [6] Later he worked as a proofreader for Daily Imroze of Karachi. [1] He was a progressive writer and soon started to attract the audience with his enthusiastic recitation of ...
Mohsin-ul-Mulk was an outstanding person [citation needed] who organized the Muslims in defense of Urdu language. Towards the beginning of the 20th century, the Hindi-Urdu controversy again flared up in the United Provinces. Mohsin-ul-Mulk took up the pen in defense of Urdu in collaboration with the Urdu Defense Association.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was a noted Urdu poet, having written a number of Urdu ghazals. While some part of his opus was lost or destroyed during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 , a large collection did survive, and was compiled into the Kulliyyat-i-Zafar.
Bulleh Shah was a "revolutionary" and "rebel" poet who spoke against powerful religious, political and social institutions of his time [1] [3] [31] and, thus, his influence can be seen on many noted socialists, progressives and workers and women rights activists like Jam Saqi, [30] Taimur Rahman, [35] Bhagat Singh, [31] Faiz Ahmad Faiz, [36 ...
In the modern era, the notion of jihad has lost its jurisprudential relevance and instead given rise to an ideological and political discourse. [5] [18] While modernist Islamic scholars have emphasized the defensive and non-military aspects of jihad, Islamists have advanced aggressive interpretations that build off of and go beyond the ...
Native speakers of Urdu are spread across South Asia. [note 1] [13] [14] The vast majority of them are Muslims of the Hindi–Urdu Belt of northern India, [note 2] [15] [16] [17] followed by the Deccani people of the Deccan plateau in south-central India (who speak Deccani Urdu), most of the Muhajir people of Pakistan, Muslims in the Terai of Nepal, and Muslims of Old Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Iranian protesters burning the flag of the United States along with a US Dollar in Tehran, November 2018. Death to America [a] is an anti-American and anti-terrorist political slogan widely used in North Korea (as Death to the United States imperialists [b]), [1] [2] Iran, [3] Afghanistan, [4] Lebanon, [5] Yemen, [6] Iraq, [7] [8] and Pakistan.