Sunday, March 12, 2017

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

Thursday, March 9, 2017

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

Friday, March 3, 2017

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