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Ghazal vs Mushaira - What's the difference?

ghazal | mushaira |

As nouns the difference between ghazal and mushaira

is that ghazal is a poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry while mushaira is a poetic symposium in Pakistan or North India at which poets gather to perform their works, traditionally ghazals.

ghazal

English

(wikipedia ghazal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
  • * 2001 , Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red , tr. Erda? M. Göknar:
  • Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.
  • * 2005 , Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown , Vintage 2006, p. 100:
  • A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.

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    mushaira

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia mushaira)
  • A poetic symposium in Pakistan or North India at which poets gather to perform their works, traditionally ghazals.