Urdu poetry. Essentially, bahr is a specific pattern, combining the arkaan of Urdu prosody that define the "length" of a sher. However, generally bahr is...

In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in...

Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India...

Naʽat (Urdu: نعت; Bengali: নাত and Punjabi) is poetry in praise of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. The practice is popular in South Asia (India, Pakistan...

Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (Arabic: أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري, romanized: Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī; c. 776–868/869)...

Johann Karl Bähr (1801–1869) was a German painter and writer. Bähr was born in Riga on 18 August 1801. He studied under Matthaei in Dresden and completed...

A shayar is a poet who composes sher or couplet in Urdu poetry (Urdu shayari). A shayar is someone who writes ghazals, nazms using the Urdu, Hindi & Bangla...

Triveni is a form of Hindi/Urdu poetry initiated by the poet Gulzar. Unlike sher, a triveni consists of three "hemistichs" (misras). The first two are...

the metre of Bahr Khafif [Wikidata] in Arabic poetry, and it is composed of 457 verses. Al-Busiri Al-Burda Madeeh Durood Islamic poetry الحسني, أبي العباس...

the Ahl al-Bayt. His poetry about the Battle of Karbala is recited all over Pakistan. Naqvi published multiple books of poetry during his lifetime. He...