Noha & Marsiya

Mir Babar Ali Anees (c. 1803–1874)

Mir Babar Ali Anees was born in Faizabad and died in Lucknow on 10 December 1874. The son of the marsiya poet Mir Khaliq, he is the best-known master of the Urdu marsiya: long poems in six-line bands that tell the day of Ashura, from the dawn prayer to the lament of the women of the Prophet’s family. More on Wikipedia