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Shahr Ashob
Urdu poetic genre / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shahr Ashob (Persian: شهر آشوب; literary written as Shahr-e-Ashob (lit. 'The city's misfortune' [1]), sometimes spelled Shahar-i-Ashob, is an ancient Urdu poetic genre in South Asia with its roots in lamented classical Urdu poetry.[2][3] It was existed and widely used by the poets between the 16th and 19th centuries during the Mughal Empire. Ashob remained an historical genre in Persian, Urdu and Turkish literature used by the writers, predominantly by the Mughal poets to express their anguish and sorrows over political and social shifts.[4][5]
Shahr Ashob | |
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![]() Khawaja Hafiz reciting poetry at Mughal court | |
Stylistic origins | Mughal Empire |
Authors | Masud Sa'd Salman Mir Taqi Mir Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda Qaim Chandpuri |
Related genres | |
Qasida, Marsiya |
The Ashobs are generally describing emotional thoughts of a writer in a narrative poem based on several competencies.[6] It reads naturally or conversationally and begins as a kind of photographic depiction of a moment (such as war, invasion etc.) in anguish. It consists of five to six stanzas normally written in rhymed verse for the first four lines. The first line rhymes with the second, third and fourth, and the fifth line rhymes with none, but combines the thoughts collectively.[lower-alpha 1]