mars̄iyeh
literary genre
Also known as: marsia
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major reference
- In South Asian arts: Mars̄iyeh
Mars̄iyeh means “elegy,” but in Urdu literature it generally means an elegy on the travails of the family and kinsmen of Ḥusayn (grandson of Muḥammad) and their martyrdom in the field of Karbalā, Iraq. These elegies and other lamentatory verses were read at public…
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Islamic poetry
- In Islamic arts: Other poetic forms
…the form used for the mars̄īyeh (dirge for the martyrs of Karbala). Because it had come to be associated with lofty feeling and serious thought, musaddas later was used for the first reformist modern poems.
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place in Sindhi literature
- In Sindhi literature
…Sindhi but also initiated the marsia genre, an elegy on the deaths of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī and his followers at the Battle of Karbalāʾ.
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