غَزَل (ḡazal) or غَزِلَ (ḡazila) - To sweet-talk, to flirt, to display amorous gestures.
The root syllables Gh-Z-L have three possible meanings in Arabic: The word ghazal originates from the Arabic word غزل ( ġazal).
9.1 Notable poets who composed ghazals in English.
7 Translations and performance of classical ghazal.
4.3 Introduction into Indian subcontinent.
4.2.3 Late Persian poetry in the Early Mongol Period (1221–).
4.2.2 Early Persian ghazal poetry (12th to early 13th century).
4.2.1 Early Arabo-Persian ghazals (10th to 11th century).
In style and content, due to its highly allusive nature, the ghazal has proved capable of an extraordinary variety of expression around its central themes of love and separation. The structural requirements of the ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan sonnet. Ī ghazal commonly consists of five to fifteen couplets, which are independent, but are linked – abstractly, in their theme and more strictly in their poetic form. The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate, and is now most prominently a form of poetry of many languages of the Indian subcontinent and Turkey. The ghazal form is ancient, tracing its origins to 7th-century Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The ghazal ( Arabic: غَزَل, Bengali: গজল, Hindi-Urdu: ग़ज़ल/ غزَل, Persian: غزل, Azerbaijani: qəzəl, Turkish: gazel, Turkmen: gazal, Uzbek: gʻazal, Gujarati: ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. He was emotionally collapsed because of the death of his adopted son.An illustrated headpiece from a mid-18th century collection of ghazals and rubāʻīyāt He then adopted his nephew called ‘Arif’ who also died at the age of 16. All of his kids died during their infancy. Ghalib led a miserable life for he started taking wine at a very young age when he was just a boy whereas his financial condition was not good moreover he had no children of his own. Ghalib was also a poetry teacher of the King, Bahadur Sha Zafar, who himself was a very nice poet. Despite this income, Ghalib remained nearly destitute for most of his life. In 1826, on the death of Ghalib’s uncle, the British government began providing Ghalib and his family with a small pension for the military services of his uncle. soon after the publication of his Urdu poetry collection Ghalib switched to writing entirely in Persian, also known as Farsi. Deewan e Ghalib, Nuskha e Hamida was Published in 1828. In 1821 he compiled his first collection of Urdu verse. Ghalib was introduced to the elite circle of intellectuals and artists that surrounded the Indian royal family in Delhi because of his father in law. It got married in 1810 to Umrao Begum, the niece of Nawab Ahmad Baksh Khan who was the ruler of Ferozepur and Loharu at that time. Ghalib had no formal education, but was tutored in Persian by Muhammad Mu’azzam, a noted scholar of the time. Ghalib was born in Agra, in northern India, and was raised by his uncle. In a ghazal, each couplet is self-contained and generally unconnected with the next. He is best known for his lyrical and spiritual ghazals.
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Mirza Ghalib, full name Mirza Asadullah Khan Beig, pen name ‘Ghalib’ (1797-1869) was a famous Urdu- and Persian-language poet of India.