Intikhab-e-Kalam: Vali

Description

Vali was the most prominent North Indian Urdu poet of the seventeenth century. He forms a link between the Deccani poets who wrote in the southern dialect, and the poets of Delhi who wrote in the northern dialect which was more Persianised. His diwan became the trendsetter for other poets. Most of his poetry consists of ghazals but his divan also includes rubai, naat, mukhammis, etc. His most favourite themes were mystical and earthly love. He is also known as the architect of the modern poetic language which is a blend of Persian and Hindi vocabulary.

Author Biography

Zafar Iqbal is former Chairman of the Department of Urdu, University of Karachi, and an eminent critic of Urdu literature.