An Analysis of Muhammad Khan Majeedi’s Poetry

Authors

  • Dr. Abdul Hafeez Qureshi Author
  • Dr. Shafiq Shahani Author

Keywords:

Muhammad Khan Majeedi, Folk poetry, ‘Nazm’, literary devices, poetic crafts.

Abstract

Muhammad Khan Majeedi was a famous poet of Sindh. His poetry mainly focuses the peasant class of Sindh where he represents the sufferings and pains of the people and inspires them to get awareness. Due to this his poetry flourished from folk poetry of Sindhi. Such type of poetry portrayed village life of Sindh.

This paper is intended to analysis Muhammad Khan Majeedi’s poetry specially the poetic genre ‘Nazam’ in Sindhi poetry where his position is exalted. He not only focused and expressed in ‘Nazm’ but also used a sophisticated language with many poetic devices. This was analyzed through textual analysis of the research design and used Majeedi’s poetry as main subject.

The analysis of the study shows that he composed such type of poetry from every point of literary aspects engaging various impressions, style, engaging poetic devices like metaphors, similes, compound-words, idioms,folk-sayings and many more things to represent the suppressed class. His poetic craftsmanship gave him the position of a wonderful poet of ‘nazm’ and in other devices.

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Published

2026-07-17

How to Cite

An Analysis of Muhammad Khan Majeedi’s Poetry. (2026). Sindhi Boli Research Journal, 19(1st), 1-18. https://journal.sindhila.org/index.php/boli-journal/article/view/151

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