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Musaddas logo #21000 Musaddas (مسدس) is a genre of Urdu poetry in which each unit consists of 6 lines-sestain- (misra). Famous early writers employing this form are Mir Anis and Dabeer. Maulana Altaf Husain Hali and Waheed Akhtar are other well-known poets to find expression in this form of poetry. Particularly iconic is Hali`s Madd-o-Jazr-e-Islam as an exemplary....
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musaddas logo #21003(from the article `Islamic arts`) ...called a tarkb-band (literally `composite-tie`). True stanzas of varying lengths were also invented. Among these, mainly in Urdu and Turkish, a ... ...gained the tenor and magnitude of epic poetry. The two great masters of that 19th-century period were Mr Ans and Mrz Dabr, who together ... ...
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