Tues 14 Mar: Second Nishist on Urdu Poet Mir Taqi Mir with Qasim Jafri

Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts 

Open Invitation to a Second Nishist on Urdu Poet Mir Taqi Mir 
with Syed Qasim Jafri 

محمد تقی مِیرؔ

Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Programme: Syed Q Jafri will present the poetry of Mir Taqi Mir (1722-1810)

Venue: Hastoneest Lahore, 
3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Canal Park, Shariff Colony, Gulberg II.

(including tea and refreshments).

His complete works, Kulliaat, consist of six Diwans containing 13,585 couplets, comprising all kinds of poetic forms. His masnavi Mu'amlat-e-Ishq (The Stages of Love) is one of the greatest known love poems in Urdu literature.

Born in Agra, Mir's philosophy of life was formed primarily by his father, a religious man with a large following, whose emphasis on the importance of love and the value of compassion remained with Mir throughout his life and imbued his poetry. 

One of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal Mir lived much of his life in Mughal Delhi, Kuchha Chelan, in Old Delhi. In 1748, he eventually moved to the court of Asaf-ud-Daulah in Lucknow.

Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com/03008493170

Sun 12 March: Ghayb (The Hidden World) & The Reality of Heaven - Syed Uzair Abdullah Qadri

Hast o Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts 

Open Invitation to The Daily Quranic Word 

Ghayb (The Hidden World) & 

the Reality of Heaven

Syed Uzair Abdullah Qadri

Sunday, 12 March 2017 at 6:30 pm at Hastoneest, 3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II, Lahore

Syed Uzair Abdullah Qadri holds special interest in Kalam, Exegesis, the Science of Hadith, Arabic Language & Poetry.

Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com/03008493170

4-5 March: 8 pm: Weekend Session on بدھ مت - Aspects of Buddhism - Dr. Zamir

Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts
Open Invitation to a Weekend Session with Dr. Rizwan Zamir on
بدھ مت - Aspects of Buddhism
(via Skype - English/Urdu)

4th & 5th March, Saturday & Sunday at 8:00 pm
Hastoneest 3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II, Lahore.


Dr. Zamir currently teaches introductory and advanced courses in the area of Islamic studies, specializing in Islamic thought and spirituality at Davidson College, USA.

Queries: 0300 8493170. 

Wed 8 March 6:30 pm: Takiya Hastoneest: Sitar Concert with Dr. Allyn Miner

Hast o Neest 
Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Open Invitation 

TAKIYA HASTONEEST

Classical Music Sitting

Concert and Talk by Dr. Allyn Miner on the Sitar

Wednesday, 8th March 2017

6:30 pm

Allyn Miner is a concert performer on the North Indian sitar. She is a Lecturer in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and publications relate to the history of the sitar, the social history of music in South Asia, and Sanskrit, Hindi, and Urdu musicological literature.

Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com/0300 8493170

Tues, 28 Feb: Open Invitation: Evening on the Urdu Poet Mir Taqi Mir with Q Jafri

Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts 

Open Invitation to a Commemorative Evening Nishist 
on Urdu Poet Mir Taqi Mir with Syed Qasim Jafri 

محمد تقی

مِیرؔ

Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Programme: Syed Q Jafri will present the poetry of Mir Taqi Mir (1722-1810)

Venue: Back Garden, Hastoneest Lahore, 
3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Canal Park, Shariff Colony, Gulberg II.

(including tea and refreshments).

His complete works, Kulliaat, consist of six Diwans containing 13,585 couplets, comprising all kinds of poetic forms. His masnavi Mu'amlat-e-Ishq (The Stages of Love) is one of the greatest known love poems in Urdu literature.

Born in Agra, Mir's philosophy of life was formed primarily by his father, a religious man with a large following, whose emphasis on the importance of love and the value of compassion remained with Mir throughout his life and imbued his poetry. 

One of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal Mir lived much of his life in Mughal Delhi, Kuchha Chelan, in Old Delhi. In 1748, he eventually moved to the court of Asaf-ud-Daulah in Lucknow.

Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com/03008493170

Sun 26 Feb: Open Lecture: Introduction to the Art of the Book - Fyza Noon

Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts
Open Lecture Series on the Arts

Introduction to the Art of the Book
Fyza Noon

Sunday 26 February 2017
6:00 pm
at Hastoneest Lahore, 3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II


Fyza Noon is a NCA graduate and a miniature student of Bashir Ahmed sahib. She teaches miniature at Hastoneest and is a founding member of the Institute.

Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com/03008493170

Sat 25 Feb: Open Lecture: 'The Word Illumined: Language of Traditional Manuscript Illumination' - Azma Salman

Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts - Open Lecture Series on the Arts

The Word Illumined: Language of Traditional Manuscript Illumination
Azma Salman

Saturday, 25 Feb, 2017
6:00 pm
at Hastoneest Lahore,
3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II

Azma Salman's area of specialization is "Tezhib" or Illumination - an art form used to ornament the holy verses of the Quran - for which she received training from three present day Turkish masters e.i Ayten Tiryaki, Emel Turkman and Nilofer Kurfeyz.  She holds a Masters of Arts in Visual Islamic and Traditional Art from the Princes School of Traditional Arts, London and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National College of Arts.

Currently she is the only illuminator in Pakistan who has a formal degree in this area of Islamic Art. She lives and works in Lahore.

Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com/03008493170