Farāz, Aḥmad

by Oesterheld, Christina

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Aḥmad Farāz , one of the most popular Urdu poets of the twentieth century, was born Sayyid Aḥmad Shāh in Kohat (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) on 14 January 1931. His mother tongue was Pashto, but in keeping with the family’s tradition he received a firm grounding in Persian. From 1950 he worked as author and producer for Radio Pakistan, first in Karachi and then in Peshawar, where in 1960 he was awarded a master’s degree in Persian and Urdu and began teaching both languages at Peshawar Universi…

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Aḥmad Farāz , one of the most popular Urdu poets of the twentieth century, was born Sayyid Aḥmad Shāh in Kohat (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) on 14 January 1931. His mother tongue was Pashto, but in keeping with the family’s tradition he received a firm grounding in Persian. From 1950 he worked as author and producer for Radio Pakistan, first in Karachi and then in Peshawar, where in 1960 he was awarded a master’s degree in Persian and Urdu and began teaching both languages at Peshawar University. In 1964 he

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1993

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eng Islam

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Oesterheld, Christina

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