Abstract
The importance of Maulana Altaf Husain Hali [Alṭāf Ḥusain
Ḥālī] in the evolution of Urdu literature is sufficiently known, and we
don’t need to emphasize it here again.i
It is sufficient to say that his
Muqaddama, or ‘Introduction” (originally intended as a rather long
preface to his Divān, published in 1893) was and still partly is
considered the modern ars poetica for Urdu poetry. “Hali and Shibliii
were the two great literary dictators of their age: writes Dr. Vahid
Quraishi in the preface to his valuable re-edition of the Muqaddama
published by the Maktaba-e Jadid in Lahore with interesting notes and
appendicesiii—they studied the old and new literary criticism and after
having clearly fixed the limits of the old frame they tried to pour into it
the leaven of Western ideas”. Such first attempts to create a fusion of
Eastern and Western ideals in Art I consider extremely interesting both
for their theoretical value (nobody can possibly know the intricacies
and depths of the Muslim poetical style as much as an oriental poet)
and their practical results. From the latter point of view it is sufficien
Alessandro Bausani. (2016) Altaf Hussain Hali’s Ideas on Ghazal, Bazyaft, Vol 28-29, Issue 1.
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