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CRITICAL VISION OF MIAN MUHAMMAD BUKHSH AN ANALYTICAL STUDY

  • Ismatullah Zahid/
  • June 30, 2014
Keywords
Punjab, Punjabi, Waris Shah, Ahmad Yaar, Hafiz Barkhurdar, Mian Muhammad Bukhsh, Hashim, Ganimat Kunjahi, Saiful Mulook, Gulazar-e-Faqr
Abstract

There is a long list of poets who enriched Punjabi language and literature through their valuable literary contributions. Mian Muhammad Bukhsh is one of them. He is truly termed to be the representative of Potohar/semi Lehnda dialect of Punjabi language. His contributions range from creative works to translations from Persian to Punjabi. But his main claim to fame is his legendry poetic work namely Saiful Mulook. This book covers all aspects of human life from moral to spiritual, religious to mundane and economic to social. Given its dealing of human emotions, this book got unprecedented popularity in the Punjab. Many of its couplets have become proverbial in the Punjab. This article is an analytical study of the master piece of Punjabi language Saiful Mulook of Mian Muhammad Bukhsh

 

References

(1)  Maula Bakhsh Kushta: Punjabi Sha'iran da Tazkira, Kushta  and Sons,   

     Lahore.1960, p198

(2) Akhtar Jafary, Hazrat Mian Muhammad Bukhsh:Hayati te Sha'ri, Maqsood Publishers, Lahore, 2007, p12

(3) Ghulam Husain Azhar; Mian Muhammad;Qutb Minar, Anarkali, Lahore, 1980, p70

(4)  Ismatullah Zahid: Perkh Pragey, Al-Tehrir, Urdu Bazar Lahore, 1980, p197

(5) Dante (1265-1321) was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. He is widely known for his master piece namely Divine Comedy. 

(6) John Ruskin (1819 -1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. 

(7) John Galsworthy (1867 -1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.

(8) Sir Philip Sidney (1554 -1586) was an English poet, courtier, and soldier. He is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.

(9) Sajjad Baqir Rizvi:Maghrab ke Tanqidi Usool, Muqtadira Qaumi Zaban, Islamabad, 1987, p153

(10) Sajjad Baqir Rizvi:Maghrab ke Tanqidi Usool, p249

(11) Edgar Allan Poe[A.E.Poe] (1809 - 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. 

(12) Saiful Malook, Mian Muhammad Bukhsh,Mian Muhammad Bukhsh Library, Mirpur Azad Kashmir, 2010, p206

(13)Thomas Stearns Eliot [T.S Eliot] (1888 - 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and finally one of the twentieth century's major poets.

(14) Mian Muhammad Bukhsh: Sohni Mahiwal, p17 

(15) Saiful Malook ,p 23 (16) Ibid, p23 (17) Ibid, p23

(18) Ibid, p2 (19) Ibid , p2 (20) Ibid , p437

(21) Ibid , p438 (22) Ibid, p437 (23) Ibid , p437

(24) Ibid, p437 (25) Ibid, p22 (26) Ibid, p22

 

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Zahid, I. (2022). CRITICAL VISION OF MIAN MUHAMMAD BUKHSH AN ANALYTICAL STUDY. ORIENTAL COLLEGE MAGAZINE, 89(2), 3–14. https://ocm.pu.edu.pk/website/journal/article/635223303c989/page

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