Urdu Poetry Fall 2016

اردو ��ى उद 셍ू शायरी Urdu Poetry Fall 2016 Course Code: ISLA 555 Hours: F 2:35-5:25pm Classroom: Morrice Hall Rm. 328 Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University Instructor: Prof. Pasha M. Khan [email protected] Office: Morrice Hall Rm. 312 Office Hours: W 4pm-5pm, F 12pm-1pm by appointment (please schedule an appointment online) Students will be introduced to the Urdu poetry of the past 2 centuries, beginning with modern poets, and moving backwards in time, covering Faiz, Rashed, Iqbal, Ghalib, and Mir, among others. We will read, analyze, and listen primary to poems in the ghazal genre. Students with Urdu-Hindi language abilities at the intermediate or advanced level are welcome. Students may read poetry in either the Urdu or Hindi (Devanagari) script. For students with intermediate abilities, advanced grammar topics will be covered, such that this course can be considered a continuation of the Intermediate Urdu-Hindi course. Required Text: This text is available at The McGill Bookstore. • Pritchett, Frances. Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. All other readings (listed in the Class Schedule) will be made available to you via myCourses. If you do NOT have access to the myCourses page for this class, please notify me A.S.A.P.! On Technology in Class: Students are discouraged from using mobile phones in class. Fixating on your phone, surreptitious texting and so on will result in a lowered participation mark. Laptops and tablets (iPads, etc.) are allowed in class, but solely for the purpose of referring to the readings for the day. I encourage the use of paper and pen if you need to take notes. The use of laptops and tablets should not interfere with your participation in the class discussion; this will obviously cause your participation mark to take a nosedive. Make eye contact and stay away from email, social media, and so on—stick to the readings. Students with Disabilities: If you have a disability, whether physical or mental (anxiety, depression, etc.) please do not hesitate to let me know in person or via email as soon as you can, and we will plan out a course of action. I strongly recommend getting in touch with the Office of Students with Disabilities. Grading Scheme: Participation 40% Attendance and participation in class discussions makes up a significant portion of your grade. Please come to class (on time) and engage in the discussion. During each class, we will read the assigned poems aloud and discuss them in detail together. For a better understanding of how participation is graded, see the Participation Rubric (next section). Because each class is 3 hours in duration, presence in class is very important. It is imperative to have a doctor's note to avoid losing marks due to absence. This year Prof. Akbar Hyder, of the University of Texas, Austin, will be giving a talk on the poet Josh Malihabadi (time and location TBA). You will receive a participation mark for attending his lecture. Marks will also be given for attending the last class, where you will have the chance to complete the course evaluation. You may need to bring your laptop to class for this, or you may send me a screen shot of the top of the review page. You are welcome to opt out by indicating this decision to me via email. Class attendance: 7% Participation: 30% Special Event Participation: 2% Course Evaluation/Opt-out: 1% Final Project Topic 5% Email me your brief topic description by October 16, 11:59 PM. Describe what you are thinking of writing about. Consider in particular the feasibility of the project in terms of its scope. You must submit it to me via email according to the following instructions; failure to follow them will result in a reduced mark: 1. You must send the email from your McGill email address, not your personal address. 2. The email must be a new email. Please don’t reply to an email I’ve sent you or to an existing email thread. Send me a new email with a new subject. 3. Your topic should be stated in the body of the email. Please do not send attachments. 4. You must send the email to the following special email address: [email protected]. Please do not send it to my McGill address. Final Project 20% The final project is your chance either to go deeper into some of the readings for the course, or to work on Urdu-Hindi language/literature in more depth. The project’s form is proposed by you, but must be validated by the professor (see Final Project Topic above). Some examples of possible projects include: a research paper, a thesis chapter, a piece of writing in Urdu/Hindi, a close-reading of a poem, an oral recitation and examination on two poems of your choice, etc. Due December 9, 11:59 PM. Assuming that the project is a written one, you must submit it to me via email according to the following instructions. If you do not follow the instructions, in the best case you will be emailed back with an error message; in the worst case your project will go off the radar and be docked marks, or not be marked at all. However the process is fairly simple: 1. You must send the email from your McGill email address, not your personal address. 2. The email must be a new email. Please don’t reply to an email I’ve sent you or to an existing email thread. Send me a new email with a new subject. 3. Your assignment must be attached to the email in PDF format. Alternatively, Word and OpenOffice documents are also fine. 4. You must send the email with your assignment attached to the following special email address: [email protected]. Please do not send it to my McGill address. Test 25% The final test will take place on December 2. It will be closed-book, and will last for one hour and a half. It may involve passage recognition, explication of verses, identification of rhetorical devices, and vocabulary recognition. Mushā‘irah 10% On December 2, you will recite one of the poems from the course to the rest of a class, with a brief introduction. Participation Rubric: For each class, students receive a participation mark of 0 to 5 on the basis of the following rubric: 0 0% • Absent. 1 35% • Present but disruptive. 2 55% • Present, not disruptive. • Tries to respond when called on but does not offer much. • Demonstrates very infrequent involvement in discussion. 3 70% • Demonstrates adequate preparation: knows the readings and the issues, but does not show evidence of trying to interpret or analyse them. • Offers straightforward information (e.g. straight from the readings), without elaboration, or does so very infrequently (perhaps once a class). • Does not offer to contribute to discussion, but contributes to a moderate degree when called on. • Demonstrates sporadic involvement. 4 85% • Demonstrates good preparation: knows reading well, has thought through implications. • Offers interpretations and analysis of readings (more than just facts) to class. • Contributes well to discussion in an ongoing way: responds to other students' points, thinks through own points, questions others in a constructive way, links own opinions to others’, offers and supports suggestions that may be counter to the majority opinion. • Demonstrates consistent ongoing involvement. 5 100% • Demonstrates excellent preparation: has analysed readings exceptionally well, relating it to other readings for the class and other material (e.g., discussions, experiences etc.). • Offers analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of readings; for example, puts together pieces of the discussion to develop new approaches that take the class further. • Contributes in a very significant way to ongoing discussion: keeps analysis focused, responds very thoughtfully to other students' comments, contributes to the cooperative argument-building, suggests alternative ways of approaching material and helps class analyse which approaches are appropriate etc. • Demonstrates very active involvement that is ongoing. Class Schedule: September 9 Introduction, Syllabus, About the Ghazal �ي ياارر: ددل � � � اادداا : ��ن � � September 16 Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Parveen Shakir � � � � :�� ؤ ��: � �� ؤ ن ش ت شاا�: � � �� ي يت ش �پھ شاا�: � � � يل � September 23 Habib Jalib, Mahendra Singh Bedi Sahar, Jaun Eliya, Kishwar Naheed ت �� بت : ددل � ي بااب �� بت : د � ر �: ااُ� �اا� ن �ن : � ااك رر� ن ياا�: � � ؤؤ�ه September 30 Ahmad Faraz, N. M. Rashed ن ��راارر: بااب � � �ے ن ��راارر: رر� � � ن ڈ رراا�: ر�� درر� �؟ ن رراا�: �وودد � خدداا� October 7 Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Kaifi Azmi, Sahir Ludhianwi � �: � � په � ي � ن �: �ن � رريگ ن �: آ ا بج ي باارراارر � ن ك ي� ي: �ن شاا�: �س � � � October 14 Muhammad Iqbal اا�ل: � ااے �ِ � اا�ل: �دد�وون � � ��ن ت اا�ل: �� ياا�اارر ن اا�ل: ِ�دد �ن October 21 Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib �� بت : س بب �ن � ن �� بت : ه ه�رااررووں �اا� ت �� بت : � ِب �ه ن �� بت : ي با ا ر �ٴ اا�ل October 28 Shaikh Ibrahim Zauq, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Momin Khan Momin ن ت دذووق: �� ب آ ا� ن � دذووق: بااب � ھ� ب�راا � ن ت �: دد� اانساان �ك � يپي� ن ت ��: اا� ااس � درراا � � ي ا November 4 Imam Bakhsh Nasikh, Haidar 'Ali Atish, Mah Laqa Ba'i Chanda ن ن ن ياا�: � رزب ب ِاان � � ت آ ا�: � ِب �ه ٴ د ي يدداارر � �� ن آ ا�: � آ ا ررررؤؤ � � � � ررؤؤيبرروو �� اا: ددل � � � November 11 Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi, Pandit Daya Shankar Nasim, Inshaullah Khan Insha, Qalandar Bakhsh Jur'at ن ش اانساا: � ياا�� ب ت ؤ ي �: �ي ياا اا ي يك ��ر � ي ي يں �: � � ددل � � ت �آ آت : ااے دد� � �� November 18 Khwajah Mir Dard, Mirza Rafi'uddin Sauda, Qalandar Bakhsh Jur'at ددرردد : � � ن ددرردد : ااررض ؤؤ � �ن � د ا : � � � ن ن � د ا : ر� ؤؤه ِ� ��رآ ان November 25 Mir Taqi Mir �: �� ؤؤ �ن � �: � اا� ب�ب � � � � � � � � � :� �: ااُ� � � س بب �� December 2 Test, Mushā‘irah McGill University values academic integrity.

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