اردوفلیشفکشن ُ کارتقاء و تاری ُکُُتحقیقی مطالع

Abstract

  When the history of 'flash fiction' in Urdu literature is explored, many traces of it are found in folk literature, including stories of kings, animal stories, fables, sayings, proverbs, riddles, maxims, parables, idioms and expressions, jokes, etc.This type of literature has been passed down from generation to generation since ancient times for the improvement of human civilization, the increase of intellect and understanding, the reform of social and moral values, and the development of spiritual power. The first example of this type is found in the "Sumerian literature" which is about three and a half thousand years old. Similarly, in about three centuries BC, the name of a great storyteller of India, Vishnu Sharman, is found. He wrote the shortest stories in an allegorical and instructive style in a book called "Panch Tantra" in Sanskrit. In the thirteenth century AD, the books of stories of the famous Persian poets of Iran, Sheikh Saadi Shirazi, "Gulistan Saadi" and "Bustan Saadi", Fariduddin Attar Nishapuri's book "Mantik Al-Tayr" and Maulana Rumi's "Hakayat-e-Rumi" also contain such stories, which are called "Hakayats" in Persian literature, in which the colors of flash fiction are prominent.