Abdur Rauf Ishrat Lakhnavi
خواجہ عبد الرؤوف عشرت لکھنوی
Works by Abdur Rauf Ishrat Lakhnavi
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First two chapters freeJan-e-Urdu (The Soul of Urdu)
جان اردو
Abdur Rauf Ishrat Lakhnavi
Khwaja Abdur Rauf Ishrat's Jan-e-Urdu, a short book on speaking and writing correct Urdu by the Lucknow master who claimed the rules of Mir Taqi Mir by inheritance: an essay arguing that Urdu and Hindi are one language best written in the Urdu script, the story of Delhi and Lucknow as the two mints of the language, notes on common words such as koi, kuchh, kya and apna, a long collection of idioms built on everyday verbs, and a list of faulty sentences from the newspapers and books of western and eastern India with their corrections. Complete Urdu text (Wikisource) and a facing English translation, with introduction and glossary. Cite as: Abdur Rauf Ishrat, Jan-e-Urdu, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/jan-e-urdu. The first two chapters are free to read.
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First two chapters freeQawaid-e-Mir (The Rules of Mir)
قواعد میر
Abdur Rauf Ishrat Lakhnavi
Khwaja Abdur Rauf Ishrat's Qawaid-e-Mir, a short handbook of Urdu usage whose rules, the author says, came down by word of mouth from the poet Mir Taqi Mir through Mir Kallu Arsh and Shaikh Muhammad Jan Shad. A fighting preface on the state of Urdu and the claims of Lucknow, then chapters on the infinitive, the plural, gender, the adjective, metaphor and metonymy, the difference between word, convention, everyday speech and idiom, and the faults of speech and taste in recent poetry. Complete Urdu text (Wikisource) and a facing English translation, with introduction and glossary. Cite as: Abdur Rauf Ishrat, Qawaid-e-Mir, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/qawaid-e-mir. The first two chapters are free to read.
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