By Fahad Hashmi
Reading Faruqi has always given me an impression that a certain form of decolonisation of the Urdu adab is at play.
Tag: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
By Irfan Ahmad
It is true that the most used Urdu word for criticism is tanqīd. However, it is wrong to say, as Faruqi did, that its Persian and Arabic equivalents, intiqād and naqd, are not deployed in Urdu. They are.