- A
marsiya (Persian: مَرْثِیَه; Urdu: مرثیہ) is an
elegiac poem
written to
commemorate the
martyrdom and
valour of
Hussain ibn Ali, his family, and his...
- The
Kashmiri Marsiya (Kạ̄shir Marsī کٲشِر مَرثی) is a
commemorative and
devotional literary genre that
closely resembles an
elegiac poem,
which is primarily...
- of Mir Anis may
surprise some of us
until we
realize it that Mir Anis’s
Marsiyas are the best
premodern model in Urdu of narrative-historical, narrative-lyrical...
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excelled and
perfected the art of
Marsiya writing. He is
considered the
leading exponent of
Marsiya Nigari or
marsiya writing along with Mir Anees. Mirza...
- of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law of Muhammad, or of any Sufi saint.
Marsiya (مرثیہ): an
elegy typically composed about the
death of Hasan, Husayn,...
- Khan and
Akhtar Hussain) has a generations-old
tradition of
performing marsiya, noha, and soz-o-salaam
recitations during Muharram to
commemorate the...
- of Karbala.
Marsiya and
Nowheh have the
historical and
social milieu of pre-Islamic
Arabic and
Persian culture. The sub-parts of
Marsiya are
called Nowheh...
- the main
night in Muharram. On this
night people gather to say Noha and
Marsiya.
Mourners beat
their chests,
recite Ziyarat Ashura and take out processions...
- poetry, also
known as shayari.
Examples of
shayari are ghazal, sher, nazm,
marsiya, qita and many more. Traditionally, that this form of
poetry is
often read...
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Following is a list of
Marsiya writers in the Urdu language.
Waheed Akhtar (1934–1996), Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and one of the
leading Muslim...
