Jamal bin Naseer al-janabi as a Commentator of Qaseeda Burda

Abstract

Jamal bin Naseer al-janabi (1100) is one of those scholar and literary personalities who played an important, vital and dynamic role in the field of Arabic and Islamic literature in Subcontinent. He is an author of many books. This article entitled “Jamal bin Naseer al-janabi as a Commentator of Qaseeda Burda by Bouseeri”. He wrote two commentaries of the said Qaseeda in Arabic and Urdu languages. This paper also provides methodical and stylistic characteristics of Al-Kawakib Al-Durriyyah Fi Madh Khair Al-Bariyyah by Jamal bin Naseer al-janabi. He relies and depends on original and basic sources in rhetoric, grammar and literature of Arabic, Urdu and Persian languages. His approach is characterized by freedom of opinion and comprehensiveness. This article is divided into five parts.

• Short preface
• Introduction to the writer
• Introduction to the commentaries
• Methodological and stylistic beauties
• Results and recommendations

In Short, these commentaries are consist of a lot of artistic, literary and technical beauties. It shows the knowledge and level of the writer in this field.