By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long ...

through poetry, ghazals and bhajans. Chitale traces his journey back to translating Rumi’s Persian verses to Urdu for his own understanding six years ago. After translating more than 1,008 ...

The Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic journal (est. 2010) devoted to the poetry, life, thought, and legacy of Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), the Islamic Sufi poet who authored some 60,000 lines of ...