| Summary: | Ahmad Showqi: (1868 - 1932) is an eminent poet in this era, and he is also leader in Egypt, Arabic World and Europe. He is pioneer in Modern Arabic History. He followed his mentor Mahmood Saami Al-Baroodi. He spent his life in grooming. Arabic thinking and was beginner and elevator of Arabic poetry. He highlighted great civilization of Arabs. This modern movement of Arabic Literature is zeal and zest of this period. Ahmad Showqi experienced many of those events took place in Arab world and the whole Islamic world. Events of freedom struggle against France played a vital role in his life and poetry. Showqi remained present in the freedom movement of Arab world and in his movement leaded by Mustafa Kamil and Mohammad Fareed. While studying Shaowqi poetry one feels special feeling and he feels climax of Egypt, Arabic and Eastern poetry. His poetry includes all emotions from patriotism to religion. Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi: (1916-2006) an eminent writer, was born in Punjab (District Khusab). He did his Bachelor’s Degree in 1935, and then started doing different jobs. During 1936 to 1942, he worked a sub-inspector in excise department (Punjab Civil Service). He worked as a well-known editor of the journals “Phool” and “Tahẕeeb-e-Niswan” in 1942. He also became the editor of an influential litrary journal of Urdu literature entitled “Adab-e-lateef” in 1943. He set up a very influential journal “Fanoon” in 1962, in which the literary works of young writers of so many Pakistani Urdu writers. He is a renowned poet, novelist, columnist and critic. Qasmi is author of eleven volumes of poems, eighteen collections of short stories, as well as novels, and criticism. He was one of Pakistan’s most distinguished men of letters. His early poetry shows the strong influence of Progressive political ideology vis à vis British colonialism and the independence movement. After 1947 his focus shifts to his country’s political and social shortcomings, and blunders and the fraught, unending search for social and economic justice there.
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