Ab-e hayat ('Water of Life') (1880) by Muhammad Husain Azad (1830-1910) has been described as the 'most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century'. Azad's masterpiece was the last classical anthology of Urdu poetry, and the first--and incomparably the most influential--modern literary history. It was also the earliest attempt to analyse along modern lines the historical and linguistic development of the Urdu ...
The Flower-Lit Road: Essays in Urdu Literary Theory and Criticism
