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NEW FORMS OF MODERN GHAZAL
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Every genre of literature transforms with time by the means of form and content. Ghazal is the most popular and form-based genre of Urdu Literature. Though very confirmed and defined in its structure and form, Ghazal has also changed its structure and form with time. Especially in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, when new experiments are being performed particularly with the casting of this ancient kind of literature, Ghazal underwent many transformations in the name of modernity. This article encompasses these changes and modernization of Urdu Ghazal in the contemporary era and near past.
Department of Islamic Studies, Riphah International University
Title: NEW FORMS OF MODERN GHAZAL
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Every genre of literature transforms with time by the means of form and content.
Ghazal is the most popular and form-based genre of Urdu Literature.
Though very confirmed and defined in its structure and form, Ghazal has also changed its structure and form with time.
Especially in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, when new experiments are being performed particularly with the casting of this ancient kind of literature, Ghazal underwent many transformations in the name of modernity.
This article encompasses these changes and modernization of Urdu Ghazal in the contemporary era and near past.
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