• Ahmadullah Aziz

This research is conducted under the title of “Brief History of Pashto Literature”. I have tried enough to collect and concise the necessary information about the history of Pashto literature from the most authentic and reliable sources. The first written literary poem in Pashto Literature is that of Amir Kror’s (Praise) written in about 2nd Hijjre Islamic century accords with (9th A.D Century). Suliman Makoo’s Tazkirat-ul-awlya is the earliest sample of Pashto Prose exists today is written in the 7th Hijjre Century accords with (14th A.D Century). It does not mean that Pashto literature had no poems and prose before these. The truth is that, this land has been invaded by the plunders and invaders so often across the time. It was the major cause that most of the physical and spiritual properties of the Pashto culture was ruined and destroyed. And the above mentioned literary works are the only earliest works we have at our hands. Many literary figures and authors have written a lot about the history of Pashto literature and have divided it into several periods in order to be easily studied. Currently, the most acceptable division is that of Mohammad Sediq Rohi, Chief Researcher, each division contains four periods. In each of the periods there were several individual patterns that have been followed by a group of writers and poets and finally have become individual schools. Lots of artistic prose and research works have come into being and hundreds of rhythmic and poetic books (Divan) have been published and this sequence is still going on.

History, Pahsto Literature

"A Brief History of Pashto Literature", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.608-614, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906K74.pdf

"A Brief History of Pashto Literature", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp608-614, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906K74.pdf