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:*(2)'''Urdu Marsiye K a Safar''': This voluminous book numbering in more than twelve hundred pages has been published by England’s Ashoor Kazmi Foundation in cooperation with India’s Educational Publishing House, which has published it from Delhi. < ref> Dawn Magazine, January, 2007 – Dawn internet edition http://dawn.com </ref>
:*(2)'''Urdu Marsiye K a Safar''': This voluminous book numbering in more than twelve hundred pages has been published by England’s Ashoor Kazmi Foundation in cooperation with India’s Educational Publishing House, which has published it from Delhi. < ref> Dawn Magazine, January, 2007 – Dawn internet edition http://dawn.com </ref>
:*(3)'''Tajzia-i-Yadgar Marsia''', Research and compilation by Dr. Syed Taghi Abedi <ref> http://www.drtaqiabedi.com/ </ref>
:*(3)'''Tajzia-i-Yadgar Marsia''', Research and compilation by Dr. Syed Taghi Abedi <ref> http://www.drtaqiabedi.com/ </ref>
:*(4) '''Intikhab-e-Kalam''': Mir Anis Compiled by Muhammad Reza Kazimi, a former Editorial Consultant of the Oxford University Press. This book contains a selection from the [[Marsias]] (elegiac epics) of Mir Anis, hailed as the greatest exponent of this form, as well as one of the greatest poets of the Urdu language. All [[British]] historians of [[Urdu]] [[literature]] are united in according him a very high stature in Urdu Literature. <ref> ISBN: 9780195479133 9780195479133 published by Oxford University Press, Karachi Pakistan - http://www.oup.com.pk </ref>
:*(4) '''Intikhab-e-Kalam''': Mir Anis Compiled by Muhammad Reza Kazimi, a former Editorial Consultant of the Oxford University Press. This book contains a selection from the [[Marsia]]s (elegiac epics) of Mir Anis, hailed as the greatest exponent of this form, as well as one of the greatest poets of the Urdu language. All [[British]] historians of [[Urdu]] [[literature]] are united in according him a very high stature in Urdu Literature. <ref> ISBN: 9780195479133 9780195479133 published by Oxford University Press, Karachi Pakistan - http://www.oup.com.pk </ref>
:*(5)Another interesting work was produced by Ghulam Imam of [[Lucknow]], a [[lawyer]] by profession. The title of the [[book]] is “'''Shakespeare and Anis'''”, 1950, Lucknow. In this work, the [[author]] has listed selections from Mir Anis [[poetry]] and has found comparable work from [[Shakespeare]]. It is an interesting book. <ref> https://web.archive.org/web/20100822011919/http://www.umaamerica.net/magazine2005/magazine_poetry.asp </ref>
:*(5)Another interesting work was produced by Ghulam Imam of [[Lucknow]], a [[lawyer]] by profession. The title of the [[book]] is “'''Shakespeare and Anis'''”, 1950, Lucknow. In this work, the [[author]] has listed selections from Mir Anis [[poetry]] and has found comparable work from [[Shakespeare]]. It is an interesting book. <ref> https://web.archive.org/web/20100822011919/http://www.umaamerica.net/magazine2005/magazine_poetry.asp </ref>
:*(6)“ '''Rubaiyate-e-Anis'''” Compiled By Mr. Mohammad Hasan Bilgrami and “'''Anis Shakhsiyat Aur Fun'''” by Mr. Fazl-e-Imam published by UP Urdu Akademi, [[India]]. <ref> http://upurduakademi.org/eng/publication2.aspx </ref>
:*(6)“ '''Rubaiyate-e-Anis'''” Compiled By Mr. Mohammad Hasan Bilgrami and “'''Anis Shakhsiyat Aur Fun'''” by Mr. Fazl-e-Imam published by UP Urdu Akademi, [[India]]. <ref> http://upurduakademi.org/eng/publication2.aspx </ref>
:*(7) Books by Dr. Alama Syed Zameer Akhtar Naqvi “'''Mir Anees Ki Shairi'''” (in Urdu Language) & “'''The poets in the family of Mir Anis'''” (published in 1996) 2nd Book is about the life history of 22 family members of Mir Anis that were poets and their poetry. <ref> http://www.allamazameerakhtar.com/zameer_books.html </ref>
:*(8)“'''The immortal poetry & Mir Anis'''” with the versified translation of a Marsia of Mir Anis: by Syed Ghulam Abbas. Published in 1983 by Majlis-e-Milli, [[Pakistan]] in [[Karachi]] - Written in [[English]].


==See also==
==See also==

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Urdu poet of Mughal era
Mir Babbar Ali Anis
Born1802
Faizabad, Oudh
Died1874
Lucknow, North-Western Provinces
Pen nameAnis
OccupationUrdu poet
NationalityIndian
PeriodMughal era
GenreMarsiya, Rubai
SubjectBattle of Karbala
Website
http://www.miranees.com/

Mir Baber Ali Anees (Template:Lang-ur) was an Urdu poet, born in 1802 in Faizabad, Oudh now in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and died in 1874 in Lucknow, North-Western Provinces.

Family and pedigree

Mir Babar Ali, 'Anis' was born in 1802 CE at Faizabad.[1] Mir Anis, a Musavi sayyed, descendent from the 7th Imam, Musa al-Kadhim, belonged to a family of poets. In his book ‘Khandaan- e-Mir Anees ke Naamwar Sho’ara’ (Famous Poets from the family of Mir Anis),Zameer Naqvi (Dr.Syed Zameer Akhter Naqvi) has listed twenty-two poets from Mir Anis’ family and their poetry. Mir Anis was a fifth generation poet and he has mentioned this fact in the first stanza of his famous Marsiya “Namak-e-Khwaan-e-Takallum hai Fasaahat meri.” He says:[2]

Urdu poetry

Namak-e-Khwaan-e-Takallum hai Fasaahat meri -- Naatqein band hai’n sun sun ke balaaghat meri

Rang udte hain wo rangee’n hai ibarat meri -- Shor jiska hai wo darya hai tabeeyat meri

Umr guzri hai isi dasht ki sa’iyaahi mei’n -- Paanchvi pusht hai Shabbir ki maddaahi mei’n

English Translation

My eloquence is the salt of the food of thought
The eloquents are mute when my style they hear
Fly colours when the colour of my ink I jot
The sound of the seas are my ideas clear
Hunting in this forest (for words) spent life I mine
Praising Hussain, fifth in progeny line

His family was famous and known as family of poets. His grandfather, Mir Hasan, composed the monumental Masnavi “Sehrul Bayan”, which had immortalized his name, his father, Mir Mustahsan Khaleeq was also a poet. He grew up to be known as Homer, Virgil and Valmiki, of Urdu poetry. Mir Anis surpassed all his predecessors and contemporaries, and is still unrivalled in the realm of elegy (marsia).[1]

Education and learning

Life

Mir Anis was invited to Lucknow where he reached the zenith of his reputation. Mir Anis did not like to move out of Lucknow apprehending that his art would not be appreciated elsewhere. Yet, after the annexation of Oudh by the British, he was persuaded to visit Azimabad (Patna), Dulhipur (Varanasi), Hyderabad and Allahabad.[3]

In 1870 Nawab Tahwar Jung invited Anis to Hyderabad where he declined to be presented at the court of Mir Mahboob Ali Khan,[1][4][5] the then Nizam of Hyderabad State, the Nizam himself went to the Majlis where the poet was to recite. While returning from Hyderabad, he sojourned at Allahabad in 1871 and recited his marsia in the Imambara of late Lala Beni Prasad Srivastava, Vakil, who was a devotee of Imam Husain.[3]

Mir Anees in Hyderabad in 1871

He died in 1874 CE and is buried at his own residence in Lucknow.[1]

Work and contribution

Mir Anis composed salāms, elegies, nauhas, quatrains. While the length of elegy initially had no more than forty or fifty stanzas, it now was beyond one hundred fifty or even longer than two hundred stanzas or bunds, as each unit of marsia in musaddas format is known. According to Muhammad Hussain Azad "The late Mīr Sahib must certainly have composed at least ten thousand elegies, and salāms beyond count. He composed as easily and casually as he spoke.".[6][7]

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi in his research and published Essay “How to read Iqbal?” provided a comparison of Iqbal with Nazeer Akbarabadi, by saying that "Iqbal was placed better because he had, among others, Bedil (1644–1720) in Persian and Mir Anis (1802–1874) in Urdu." He further asserts that, "The mention of Mir Anis may surprise some of us until we realize it that Mir Anis’s Marsiyas are the best premodern model in Urdu of narrative-historical, narrative-lyrical, and oral-dramatic poetry, and Iqbal’s poetry extends and exploits the possibilities created by Anis."[8]

Anis is also known as pioneer in Rubai, an Urdu poetry branch, and enjoys a famous position alike Mirza Sauda, Khwaja Mir Dard and Dabeer.[9] Besides being a master of the Marsia, Anis was also a specialist of the Rubai, the shortest complete poem in Urdu, containing only four lines. Mir Anees had an extraordinary capability for the writing of Rubais. He immeasurably enriched the contents of the Rubai, making it much more colorful and multi-dimensional. Anis introduced the tragic events of Karbala and their moralistic effect to Rubai. Thus, he widened the scope of Rubai to unfathomable limits. The inclusion of Karbala resulted in the florescence of the Urdu Rubai. Thus, many internal and external aspects of our life found their echo in the Urdu Rubai.[10]

Tribute to poet in Urdu literature

Muharram and Mir Anis have become synonymous in our part of the world. In fact, Mir Anis is a great teacher for the young generation if it wants to feed itself on the gems of Urdu poetry. Undoubtedly, Urdu derives much of its strength from the Marsias of Mir Anis.

Mir Anis has drawn upon the vocabulary of Arabic, Persian, Urdu/Hindi/Awadhi in such a good measure that he symbolizes the full spectrum of the cultural mosaic that Urdu has come to be. No Urdu poet from Ghalib onwards has lagged behind in showering his eulogies on Mir Anis.

The art of Marsia in the hands of Anis has brought to itself the attributes of painting, music and photography. He convinces us that a great artist is at work, making us watch with a sense of wonder all that he has in his repertoire. The moment the bewitched readers or listeners of Mir Anis’s Marsias surrender themselves to the fascination they feel as if they have been transferred to the scene of action aboard the time machine.

Perhaps there is no other poet in the world who has looked after the aesthetic and spiritual satisfaction of his fans so completely as Mir Anis does. It is simply miraculous. [11]

Legacy

The Majlis of 25 Rajab, is historically important Majlis of marsiya in Lucknow, in this majlis Mir Anis used to recite Marsiya. After Mir Anis, well known marsiya writers of Mir Anis's family as Dulaha Sahab Uruj, Mustafa Meerza urf Piyare Sahab Rasheed, Ali Nawab Qadeem and Syed Sajjad Hussain Shadeed inherited the legacy of reciting marsiya.Every year in the month of Rajab,25th Allama, Dr. Syed Ali Imam Zaidi Gauhar Lakhnavi great grand son of Mir Baber Ali Anees recites self composed marsiya in this majlis at Imam Bara Nazim saheb, Lucknow.u.p,India.

The famous marsia writers who inherited the tradition of Mir Anis among his successive generations are Mir Nawab Ali Munis, Dulaha Sahab Uruj, Mustafa Meerza urf Piyare Sahab Rasheed, Syed Muhammad Mirza Uns, Ali Nawab Qadeem, Syed Sajjad Hussain Shadeed and Allama Dr.Syed Ali Imam Zaidi Gauhar lakhnavi great grand son of Mir Baber Ali Anees.

Books on Mir Anis

Given below is description of some books published by various researchers and publishers of Indo-Pak:

  • (1) Two books [12] (i) Marsiya Khawani Ka Funn & (ii) Marka-i-Anis-au-Dabir in Urdu language by Dr. Nayyar Masood, Professor and head of department (computer science) Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan [13] and son of well known Urdu literature research scholar Syed Masood Hasan Rizvi.
  • (2)Urdu Marsiye K a Safar: This voluminous book numbering in more than twelve hundred pages has been published by England’s Ashoor Kazmi Foundation in cooperation with India’s Educational Publishing House, which has published it from Delhi. < ref> Dawn Magazine, January, 2007 – Dawn internet edition http://dawn.com </ref>
  • (3)Tajzia-i-Yadgar Marsia, Research and compilation by Dr. Syed Taghi Abedi [14]
  • (4) Intikhab-e-Kalam: Mir Anis Compiled by Muhammad Reza Kazimi, a former Editorial Consultant of the Oxford University Press. This book contains a selection from the Marsias (elegiac epics) of Mir Anis, hailed as the greatest exponent of this form, as well as one of the greatest poets of the Urdu language. All British historians of Urdu literature are united in according him a very high stature in Urdu Literature. [15]
  • (5)Another interesting work was produced by Ghulam Imam of Lucknow, a lawyer by profession. The title of the book is “Shakespeare and Anis”, 1950, Lucknow. In this work, the author has listed selections from Mir Anis poetry and has found comparable work from Shakespeare. It is an interesting book. [16]
  • (6)“ Rubaiyate-e-Anis” Compiled By Mr. Mohammad Hasan Bilgrami and “Anis Shakhsiyat Aur Fun” by Mr. Fazl-e-Imam published by UP Urdu Akademi, India. [17]
  • (7) Books by Dr. Alama Syed Zameer Akhtar Naqvi “Mir Anees Ki Shairi” (in Urdu Language) & “The poets in the family of Mir Anis” (published in 1996) 2nd Book is about the life history of 22 family members of Mir Anis that were poets and their poetry. [18]
  • (8)“The immortal poetry & Mir Anis” with the versified translation of a Marsia of Mir Anis: by Syed Ghulam Abbas. Published in 1983 by Majlis-e-Milli, Pakistan in Karachi - Written in English.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d History (2005). id=b8KoSKzi6QMC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Mir+Anees+in+Hyderabad&source=bl&ots=kvFRE3SFoO&sig=tJwSxDQ3QWZ5GKAEtnFfjvL9n7E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OIDAUd_GCcaGrgeu24HACA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAjgK#v=snippet&q=Anis&f=false "The Twelver Shîʻa as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears". History. Routledge. pp. 14, 18, 23, 63. Retrieved 18 June 2013. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing pipe in: |url= (help)
  2. ^ http://sirfshia.webs.com/aboutshiapoet.htm
  3. ^ a b "A History of Urdu Literature" by Dr. Ram Babu Saxena, Allahabad, 1927
  4. ^ Hussainia Nawab Inayath Jung
  5. ^ Lallana Rāya (2002). Legacy of the Nizam's. Vani Prakashan. p. 282. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  6. ^ About Mir Babbar Ali Anis in Aab-e-Hayat (Original Urdu)
  7. ^ Aab-e-Hayat (English Translation), Translated and edited by Frances W. Pritchett, in association with Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
  8. ^ How to Read Iqbal? Eassays on Iqbal, Urdu Poetry and Literary Theory by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
  9. ^ Extracted from: Rubai Aik Qadeem Sanaf-e-Sukhan (in Urdu Language) research of Dr. Younus Hassani, published in Midweek Magazine issued by the Daily Jang, Karachi in its issue of 09 July, 2014
  10. ^ http://www.urdushayari.in/2012/01/meer-babar-ali-anees.html
  11. ^ DAWN - Features; March 12, 2003 “Mir Anis and Karbala” http://www.dawn.com/news/1064293/dawn-features-march-12-2003#1
  12. ^ http://www.dawn.com/new/625039/column-the-life-and-works-of-mir-anis
  13. ^ http://www.jinnah.edu.pk/faculty/cv_fulview/param/142/dept/6
  14. ^ http://www.drtaqiabedi.com/
  15. ^ ISBN: 9780195479133 9780195479133 published by Oxford University Press, Karachi Pakistan - http://www.oup.com.pk
  16. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20100822011919/http://www.umaamerica.net/magazine2005/magazine_poetry.asp
  17. ^ http://upurduakademi.org/eng/publication2.aspx
  18. ^ http://www.allamazameerakhtar.com/zameer_books.html

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