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![]() ![]() Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Dari poetry and Urdu poetry, today it is found in the poetry of many languages of the Indian sub-continent. 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. Its root term in Arabic is “gh-zl” and is derived from the Arabian panegyric qasida. The term Ghazal is of North African and Middle Eastern origin. ![]() The form is ancient, originating in ancient Arabic poem in Arabia long before the birth of Islam. 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 is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter.
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