Urdu literature has a long history. It tends to be dominated by poetry specially its some verses forms: ghazal and nazm has led to its expansion into other styles of writing, including afsana or short story. Urdu literature is most popular in India, Afghanistan, foreign countries but special in Pakistan due to national language of Pakistan.
Urdu literature may be said to find its origin sometime around the 14th century in North India amongst the sophisticated gentry of Persian courts. The color of Urdu language with a vocabulary almost split between Arabo-Persian and Sanskrit-derived Prakrit words. Amir Khusro, who exercised great influence on the initial growth of Urdu literature and language also. The couplets that come from him in are representative of a later-Prakrit Hindi bereft of Arabo-Persian vocabulary, but a century after his passing Quli Qutab Shah was seen to take a language that may be safely to be Urdu.
Urdu literature was generally composed of poetry as compare to prose. The prose component of Urdu literature infact mainly restricted to the ancient from long stories called “Dastan” often written in Persian. Dastan as a genre originated in Iran and was disseminated by folk storytellers. Some famous Dastans in Urdu are: Nau tarz-i murassa’, Nau ain-i hindi, Jazb-i ’ishq, Ara’ish-i mahfil, Bagh o bahaar, Dastan-i Amir Hamza.
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