Imtezaaj, Urdu Research Journal, UOK - Karachi

امتزا ج

Department of Urdu, University of Karachi, Pakistan
ISSN (print): 2518-9719
ISSN (online): 2518-976X
Abstract

Tilism e Naranj is a rarest Urdu romance (Dastan) belongs to Dastan e Ameer Hamza, one of the popular romance of classic Urdu literature. The authors of Tilism e Naranj is Munshi Ahmed Husain Qamar, who is famous among the writers of Dastan e Ameer Hamza of Newul Kishore Press Lucknow. He wrote several voluminious volumes of Dastan e Ameer Hamza. Besides those volumes he wrote the smallest parts of that particular dastan in the name of Tilism e Naranj which was printed by Munshi Newul Kishore Press Lucknow and published by J Narayan Verma publisher of Lucknow. Tilism e Naranj was published once in 1901, before the death of the writer, actually at the last stage of his life. Detailed introduction of Tilism e Naranj is done in this article and almost every aspect of book and its writer is described. A Dastan critic M Habib Khan claimed that Tilism e Naranj is the part of Dastan e Ameer Hamza of Newul Kishore Press Lucknow but Shamsur Rahman farooqi, renound critic and resarcher of Dastan e Ameer Hamza differ from it and wrote that Tilism e Naranj is not the part of long Dastan e Ameer Hamza of Newul Kishore Press. The writer also had a same openion with M Habib Khan, wrote before in his article, but now he amends his openion in this article and have a same openion with Shamsur Rahman Farooqui.

 

Author(s):

Dr Rafaqat Ali Shahid

Assistant Professor,

Department of Urdu, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore.

Pakistan

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Dr Syed Tanveer Hussain

Assistant Professor,

Lahore Garrison University, Lahore.

Pakistan

Dr Muhammad Ijaz Tabassum

Assistant Professor,

Lahore Garrison University, Lahore.

Pakistan

Details:

Type: Article
Volume: 20
Issue: 20
Language: Urdu
Id: 6589a32e77437
Pages 7 - 29
Published December 31, 2023
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