Abstract
Shia majalis is a broad term which encompasses variety of religious gatherings adorned with diversity of speech acts. In Pakistan, Shia majalis are performed into different lingual and cultural backgrounds. Urdu majalis surpass the rest of lingual expressions in the popularity and number of performances. This paper, after describing the language based ontological and epistemological differences in the performance of majalis, argues that a remarkable change has been occurred in the composition and commencement of Urdu Shia Majalis over a period of time. It intends to bring the language in majalis discourse by analytically explaining the historical evolution of Urdu majalis. It maintains that Urdu majalis have gone through existential changes over the course of time. These changes can be periodically categorized in the reformatory, polemical and excommunicative trends in Urdu majalis in an evolutionary manner. During this course both genre and language are reflecting the surrounding social process. Argument is verified by analyzing the transitional behavior of structural components of majalis which include content, space and personalities
Muhammad Yasir Ali , Dr. Muhammad Farooq, Dr. Syed Ammar Haider Zaidi. (2018) Historical Evolution of Shia Urdu Majalis in Pakistan, Journal of Research (Urdu), Volume 34, Issue 1.
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