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Āb-e Hayāt

Shaping the Canon of Urdu Poetry

by Muḥammad Ḥusain Āzād · 2001

ISBN: 0195653580 9780195653588

Category: Literary Criticism / Asian / Indic

Page count: 474

This is a brilliant translation of the Aab-e-hayat (Water of Life), the last classical anthology of Urdu poetry. First published in 1880, it has exerted enormous influence over modern Urdu literary history.