SRINAGAR: Department of Kashmiri, University of Kashmir organized its 2-day National Seminar Kaeshir Sufi Shayiri: Fikr Te Fann which concluded at KU on Thursday.
Dean Academic Affairs KU Prof. MA Wani inaugurated the two-day seminar on Wednesday in the auditorium hall of the Humanities Block of KU.
He said that such seminars are the backbone for any literary discourse and hoped that the present generation of students, scholars and academicians would undertake meaningful and result-oriented research in the field of Kashmir Studies including Sufi Shayari so that new and unexplored facets and dimensions of this rich legacy of Kashmir would come to fore .
The seminar was presided over by Prof. Margoob Banhali and Prof. M.Z. Azurdah. Head Dept of Kashmiri Prof. Shad Ramzan presented the welcome address and provided an insight of the two-day national seminar.
Prof Ramzan said that even the western scholars, critics and poets have acknowledged the richness of Kashmiri Sufi poetry and the works of our great ancestors.
M.Y. Taing former Secretary Cultural Academy J&K State presented the keynote paper Sufi Shayiri: Fikr Te Fann during which he traced the history of Sufi Poetry in Indian Sub-continent and its evolution in the valley of Kashmir
Two books viz. departmental journal Anhaar and Ze Pather by R.K. Braro were also released during the inaugural session.
During the technical session Ghulam Nabi Khayal, Rafiq Raaz and Ranjoor Tilgami presented their papers whereas on the concluding day of the seminar Prof. Margoob Banhali, Prof. Mashal Sultanpuri, Prof. Bashar Bashir, M.Y. Mashoor, Dr. Afaq Aziz, Dr. Maroof Shah and Dr. Aziz Hajni presented their papers.
During the two-day seminar experts, academicians, writers and poets reiterated that Kashmiri language should be given the classical status as it is one of the oldest spoken languages of the sub-continent.
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