WHO was Urdu’s first essay writer? This may be a tricky question. Dr Jameel Jalibi thinks it was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. In his Tareekh-i-adab-i-Urdu, or history of Urdu literature, Dr Jalibi has ...
‘MAZMOON’, or essay, is an Arabic word. The Arabic root from which the word ‘mazmoon’ is derived means ‘to contain, comprise or include’. Therefore, the contents or subject matter of a letter or a ...