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Mystic Dimensions of Urdu Short Story
Mystic themes and approaches have found their fullest bloom in Urdu literature right from the beginning. Urdu poetry and prose both have exhibited a profound inclination towards Sufism throughout the course of its history. However, at the advent of modernism in the sub-continent, in the middle of the nineteenth century, rationalist and realist movements earned a rapid popularity under the influence of the western culture and education. It resulted in the diminution of the metaphysical trends in life as well as literature. Post-colonial Urdu literature regained this lost momentum in the sixth decade of the twentieth century and Urdu short story demonstrated a number of examples of mystic themes. This article lays out an analysis of the Sufi themes presented in the modern Urdu short stories. These short stories have been divided into five categories and their mystic approach has been identified in their subject, style, diction, approach and characters.