Ghazal

The ghazal (Arabic/Persian/Urdu/Hindi/Punjabi/Turkish)is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. The form is ancient, originating in 6th century pre-Islamic Arabic verse. In its style and content it is a genre which has proved capable of an extraordinary variety of expression around its central themes of love and separation. It is one of the principal poetic forms which the Indo-Perso-Arabic civilization offered to the eastern Islamic world & to the Music world.