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List of Urdu poets, the Glossary

The following is a List of Urdu-language poets.^[1]

259 relations: Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Abdur Rauf Urooj, Abid Ali Abid, Abr Ahasani Gunnauri, Ada Jafri, Adil Mansuri, Aftab Iqbal Shamim, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Agha Shorish Kashmiri, Ahfazur Rahman, Ahmad Faraz, Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Aijaz Siddiqi, Akbar Allahabadi, Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, Akhtar Raza Saleemi, Akhtar Sheerani, Akhtar ul Iman, Alam Muzaffarnagari, Ali Adil Shah I, Ali Akbar Natiq, Ali Sardar Jafri, Altaf Hussain Hali, Amir Khusrau, Amir Meenai, Amjad Hyderabadi, Amjad Islam Amjad, Anand Narain Mulla, Anjum Rehbar, Anwar Masood, Anwer Zahidi, Arsh Malsiani, Arzoo Lakhnavi, Asghar Gondvi, Ashfaq Hussain, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Baksh Nasikh, Bande Nawaz, Bashar Nawaz, Bashir Badr, Bekal Utsahi, Bekhud Badayuni, Bekhud Dehlvi, Bhupendra Nath Kaushik, Bismil Saeedi, Brij Mohan Dattatreya Kaifi, Brij Narayan Chakbast, ... Expand index (209 more) »
Urdu-language poetry

Abdul Hamid

ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ALA-LC romanization of عبد الحميد, عبدالحمید), also spelled as Abdulhamid, Abd-ul Hamid, and Abd ol-Hamid, is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname.

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Khanzada Mirza Khan Abdul Rahim (17 December 1556 – 1 October 1627), popularly known as simply Rahim and titled Khan-i-Khanan, was a poet who lived in India during the rule of Mughal emperor Akbar, who was Rahim's mentor.

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Abdul-Qādir Bedil

Abul-Ma'ānī Mīrzā Abdul-Qādir Bēdil (مولانا ابوالمعانی میرزا عبدالقادر بیدل, or Bīdel, بیدل), also known as Bedil Dehlavī (بیدل دهلوی; 1642–1720), was an Indian Sufi, and considered one of the greatest Indo-Persian poets, next to Amir Khusrau, who lived most of his life during the reign of Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor.

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Abdur Rauf Urooj

Abdur Rauf Urooj (17 May 1990) was a Pakistani poet, critic, journalist, and research scholar.

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Abid Ali Abid

Abid Ali Abid (Urdu/Persian: سید عابد علی عابد) was a Pakistani Urdu and Persian poet and educator who was born on 17 September 1906 in Dera Ismail Khan, British India and died in Lahore, Pakistan on 20 January 1971.

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Abr Ahasani Gunnauri

Abr Ahsani Gunnauri was an Indian poet who wrote ghazal and nazm in Urdu.

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Ada Jafri

Ada Jafarey (ادؔا جعفری), often spelled Ada Jafri (22 August 1924 – 12 March 2015), was a Pakistani poet who is regarded as the first major female Urdu poet to be published and has been called "The First Lady of Urdu Poetry".

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Adil Mansuri

Farid Mohammed Ghulam Nabi Mansuri (18 May 1936 – 6 November 2008), better known by his pen name Adil Mansuri, was an Indian poet, playwright, and calligrapher, primarily responsible for the development of modern Gujarati ghazal poetry and plays.

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Aftab Iqbal Shamim

Aftab Iqbal Shamim (آفتاب اقبال شمیم.; born 16 February 1933 in Jhelum, Pakistan) is an Urdu language poet and an educator from Pakistan.

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Afzal Ahmed Syed

Afzal Ahmed Syed (افضال احمد سيد) is a contemporary Urdu poet and translator, known for his mastery of both classical and modern Urdu poetic expression.

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Agha Shorish Kashmiri

Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975; آغا شورش کاشمیری) was a Pakistani scholar, writer, debater, and a leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party.

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Ahfazur Rahman

Ahfaz-ur-Rahman (احفاظُ الرّحمٰن.) (born 4 April 1942 – 12 April 2020), was a Pakistani journalist, writer and poet.

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Ahmad Faraz

Syed Ahmad Shah, better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, (12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding Director General (later Chairman) of Pakistan Academy of Letters.

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Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi

Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (احمد ندیمقاسمی) born Ahmad Shah Awan (احمد شاہ اعوان) (20 November 1916 – 10 July 2006) was an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author.

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Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Qadri (14 June 1856 – October 1921), known reverentially as A'la Hazrat, was an Indian Islamic scholar and poet who is considered as the founder of the Barelvi movement and the Razvi branch of the Qadri Sufi order.

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Aijaz Siddiqi

Aijaz (اعجاز.) Siddiqi (1911–1978) was an Urdu writer and poet.

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Akbar Allahabadi

Syed Akbar Hussain, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi (16 November 1846 – 9 September 1921) was an Urdu poet from Indian subcontinent in the genre of satire.

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Akhlaq Mohammed Khan

Akhlaq Mohammad Khan (16 June 1936 – 13 February 2012), better known by his takhallus Shahryar, was an Indian academician, and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India.

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Akhtar Raza Saleemi

Akhtar Raza Saleemi (اختر رضا سلیمی) is a Pakistani Urdu, Hindko, and Potohari poet, novelist, writer, critic and editor.

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Akhtar Sheerani

Akhtar Sheerani (born Muhammad Davud Khan; 4 May 1905 – 9 September 1948; also spelled Sheerani or Sherani) was an Urdu poet.

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Akhtar ul Iman

Akhtar ul Iman (12 November 1915 9 March 1996) was a noted Urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema, who had a major influence on modern Urdu nazm.

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Alam Muzaffarnagari

Alam Muzaffarnagari (1901-1969), born as Muhammad Ishaaq in Muzaffarnagar, then part of the North-West Provinces of British India, was a poet and writer.

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Ali Adil Shah I

Ali Adil Shah I (علی عادل شاه; 1558–1579) was the fifth Sultan of Bijapur Sultanate. On the day of his coronation Ali abandoned the Sunni practices and reintroduced the Shi’ah Khutbah and other practices. The Persian doctors of religion were granted full freedom to preach the Shi’ah doctrine and were paid by the State for their missionary activities.

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Ali Akbar Natiq

Ali Akbar Natiq (born 22 December 1974) is a Pakistani poet, novelist and short-story writer.

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Ali Sardar Jafri

Ali Sardar Jafri (29 November 1913 – 1 August 2000) was an Indian writer of Urdu language.

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Altaf Hussain Hali

Altaf Hussain Hali (–; 1837 – 31 December 1914), also known as Maulana Khawaja Hali, was an Urdu poet and writer. List of Urdu poets and Altaf Hussain Hali are Urdu-language poets.

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Amir Khusrau

Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253 – 1325 AD), better known as Amīr Khusrau, was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived during the period of the Delhi Sultanate. List of Urdu poets and Amir Khusrau are Urdu-language poets.

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Amir Meenai

Ameer Minai or Amir Meenai (امیر مینائی; 1829 — 13 October 1900) was a 19th-century Indian Urdu poet.

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Amjad Hyderabadi

Amjad Hyderabadi Birth name Syed Ahmed Hussain(سيد احمد حسين&lrm;; 1888–1961), better known by the pen-name Amjad Hyderabadi (امجد حيدرابادى), was an Urdu and Persian Ruba'i poet from Hyderabad, India.

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Amjad Islam Amjad

Amjad Islam Amjad, PP, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (امجد اسلامامجد; 4 August 1944 – 10 February 2023) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, screenwriter, playwright and lyricist.

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Anand Narain Mulla

Anand Narain Mulla (October 1901 – 13 June 1997) was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Anjum Rehbar

Anjum Rehbar (born 17 September 1962) is an Indian poet writing in Urdu and Hindi.

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Anwar Masood

Anwar Masood (انورمسعود, انورمسعود ਅਨਵਰ ਮਸਊਦ; born 8 November 1935) is a Pakistani poet and educationist known for his comic poetry.

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Anwer Zahidi

Anwer Zahidi (انور زاہدی.)(born July 9, 1946) is a Pakistani Urdu author of more than twelve books of poetry, short stories, travelogue and translations.

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Arsh Malsiani

Bal Labhu Ram Mukand (1908–1979), better known by his penname Arsh Malsiani, was an Indian Urdu poet and writer.

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Arzoo Lakhnavi

Arzoo Lakhnavi (born Syed Anwar Hussain; 16 February 1873 17 Apr 1951), also known by the honorary title Allamah Arzoo Lakhnavi, was an Urdu poet and lyricist.

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Asghar Gondvi

Asghar Husain Asghar (1884–1936) popularly known by his pen name Asghar Gondvi, born in 1884 in Gorakhpur.

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Ashfaq Hussain

Ashfaq Hussain Zaidi, PP, (born 1 January 1951) is an Urdu Pakistani poet and an author of more than 10 books of poetry and literary criticism.

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Bahadur Shah Zafar

Bahadur Shah II (born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862), usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar), was the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and a Hindustani poet. He was the second son and the successor to his father, Akbar II, who died in 1837. List of Urdu poets and Bahadur Shah Zafar are Urdu-language poets.

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Baksh Nasikh

Imam Baksh Nasikh (اِمامبخش ناسِخ; 1776–1839) was an Urdu poet of the Mughal era who has been noted for his role in promoting Lucknow as a centre of poetry and innovation.

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Bande Nawaz

Syed Muhammad ibn Yousuf al-Hussaini (7 August 1321 − 10 November 1422), commonly known as Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz, was a Hanafi Maturidi scholar and Sufi saint from India of the Chishti Order.

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Bashar Nawaz

Bashar Nawaz (18 August 1935 – 9 July 2015) was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist, who penned the song Karoge Yaad in the Bollywood film Bazaar. List of Urdu poets and Bashar Nawaz are Urdu-language poets.

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Bashir Badr

Bashir Badr (born Syed Muhammad Bashir; 15 February 1935) is an Indian poet.

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Bekal Utsahi

Muhammad Shafi Ali Khan (1 June 1928 – 3 December 2016), popularly known as Bekal Utsahi, was an Indian poet, writer and politician.

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Bekhud Badayuni

Muhammad Abdul-Hayy Siddiqui (1857–1912), writing under the pen-name Bekhud Badayuni, was one of the leading Urdu poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India.

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Bekhud Dehlvi

Bekhud Dehlvi (21 March 1863 – 2 October 1955), born Syed Wahid-ud-Din Ahmed, was the son of Syed Shams-ud-Din "Salim", also an Urdu language poet.

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Bhupendra Nath Kaushik

Bhupendra Nath Kaushik (भूपेंद्र नाथ कौशिक "फ़िक्र") (7 July 1924 – 27 October 2007) was a Hindi and Urdu language poet, writer and satirist.

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Bismil Saeedi

Bismil Saeedi (1901–1977) (بسمل سعیدی), hailing from Tonk, India was an Urdu poet who mainly wrote ghazals.

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Brij Mohan Dattatreya Kaifi

Pandit Brij Mohan Dattatreya Kaifi Dehlavi (13 December 1866 1 November 1955) was an Indian Urdu language writer, poet, playwright, novelist and essayist.

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Brij Narayan Chakbast

Brij Narayan Chakbast (19 January 1882 12 February 1926), also spelled as Brij Narain Chakbast, was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Chandar Bhan Brahman

Chandar Bhan Brahman also known as Chandra Bhan and Chandrabhan was a Punjabi poet of the Persian language born in Lahore of the Mughal Empire.

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Chandu Lal

Chandu Lal Malhotra (1766 – 15 April 1845), better known as Maharaja Chandu Lal was the prime minister (1833–1844) for 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad Sikandar Jah.

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Chhannu Lal Dilgeer

Chhannu Lal Dilgeer, a marsiya poet of Urdu, was born about 1780 at Lucknow, British India in the current Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and died in 1848.

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Daagh Dehlvi

Nawab Mirza Khan Daagh Dehlvi (نواب مرزا خان داغ دہلوی, 25 May 1831 – 17 March 1905) was a poet known for his Urdu ghazals.

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Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim

Daya Shankar Kaul "Nasim" (1811 1845) was an Urdu poet of the 19th century who is best known for his epic Gul Bakawali.

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Dil Shahjahanpuri

Dil Shahjahanpuri (1875–1959), was the takhallus of Zameer Hasan Khan, the renowned Urdu ghazal writer, who was born in Shahjahanpur, North Western Provinces, British India in the year 1875.

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Dilawar Figar

Dilawar Figar, (8 July 1929 – 25 January 1998) was a Pakistani humorist and poet.

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Dushyant Kumar

Dushyant Kumar Tyagi (1 September 1931 – 30 December 1975) was an Indian poet of modern Hindi literature.

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Ehsan Danish

Ehsan Danish (17 November 1914 – 22 March 1982), born Ehsan-ul-Haq), was an Urdu poet, prose writer, linguist, lexicographer and scholar from Pakistan. Ehsan Danish had penned down over 100 scholastic books on poetry, prose, linguistics, lexicography and prosody. At the beginning of his career his poetry was very romantic but later he wrote his poems more for the labourers and came to be called "Šhāʿir-e Mazdūr" (Poet of the workmen) by his audience.

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Fahmida Riaz

Fahmida Riaz (فہمیدہ ریاض) (28 July 1946 – 21 November 2018) was an Urdu writer, poet and activist from Pakistan.

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz (Punjabi, فیض احمد فیض, فیض احمد فیض; 13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) was a Pakistani poet and author of Punjabi and Urdu literature.

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Faiz-ul Hassan Shah

Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, known by some as Khatib-ul-Islam, was a Pakistani Islamic religious scholar, orator, poet, and writer.

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Fani Badayuni

Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1941), better known as Fani Badayuni (his takhallus), was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Fareed Parbati

Fareed Parbati (فرید پربتی), born Ghulam Nabi Bhat (غلامنبی بھٹ) on 4 August 1961 died 14 December 2011, was an Indian Urdu language poet and writer from Jammu and Kashmir, India. List of Urdu poets and Fareed Parbati are Urdu-language poets.

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Fikr Taunsvi

Fikr Taunsvi real name Ram Lal Bhatia (7 October 1918 – 12 September 1987) was an Urdu poet, born in a village of Taunsa Sharif, then part of India.

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Firaq Gorakhpuri

Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India.

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Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri

Fuzail Ahmad Nāsirī (born 13 May 1978) is an Indian Deobandi Islamic scholar, Urdu writer and poet, who is a professor of hadith and vice-administrator of education at the Jamia Imam Muhammad Anwar Shah.

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Ghalib

Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan (1797–1869), also known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet. List of Urdu poets and Ghalib are Urdu-language poets.

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Ghulam Bhik Nairang

Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang (26 September 1876 – 16 October 1952) was a distinguished lawyer, poet and Pakistan Movement leader.

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Ghulam Hamdani Mas'hafi

Ghulam Hamdani (1751–1844), known by the takhallus (nom de plume) of Mas'hafi (مصحفی maṣḥafi), was an Urdu ghazal poet.

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Ghulam Muhammad Qasir

Ghulam Muhammad Qasir (غلاممحمد قاصر 4 September 1944 – 20 February 1999) was a Pakistani Urdu poet.

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Gopal Mittal

Gopal Mittal (1906–1993) (Urdu: گوپال مِتّل) was an Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist.

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Gul Khan Nasir

Gul Khan Naseer (Balochi:; Urdu) also known as Malek o-Sho'arā Balochistan (Balochi:; Urdu); 14 May 1914 – 6 December 1983) was a Pakistani politician, poet, historian, and journalist from Balochistan. Most of his work is in Balochi language, but he also wrote in English, Urdu, Brahui and Persian.

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Gulzar

Gulzar (born Sampooran Singh Kalra; 18 August 1934) is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema. List of Urdu poets and Gulzar are Urdu-language poets.

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Habib Jalib

Habib Jalib (24 March 1928 – 13 March 1993) was a Pakistani revolutionary poet and left-wing political activist who opposed martial law, authoritarianism, military dictatorship and state oppression.

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Hafeez Jalandhari

Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jalandhari PP HI (ابو الاثر حفیظ جالندھری; 14 January 1900 – 21 December 1982) was a Pakistani poet who wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Pakistan and the Anthem of Azad Kashmir.

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Haider Qureshi

Haider Qureshi (حیدر قر یشی), Qureshi Ghulam Haider Arshad (قر یشی غلا محیدر ارشد) born on 1 September 1953 in Rabwah, Punjab, is a Pakistani Urdu poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, editor and journalist.

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Hakim Ahmad Shuja

Hakim Ahmad Shuja MBE (sometimes written as 'Hakeem Ahmed Shujah' and 'Hakim Ahmad Shuja Pasha') (4 November 1893 – 4 January 1969), was a famous Urdu and Persian poet, playwright, writer, film writer and lyricist, scholar and mystic, from former British India, later Pakistan.

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Harbans Bhalla

Harbans Bhalla (7 May 1930 – 5 April 1993) was the author of Peelay Pattar, a long Urdu epic poem, a creation realized after 14 years of writing. List of Urdu poets and Harbans Bhalla are Urdu-language poets.

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Harichand Akhtar

Pandit Harichand Akhtar (15 April 1901 – 1 January 1958) (Urdu:ہری چند اختر) was a well-known journalist who was also a renowned Urdu Ghazal poet. List of Urdu poets and Harichand Akhtar are Urdu-language poets.

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Harris Khalique

Harris Khalique (حارث خلیق; born 20 October 1966) is a Pakistani poet in Urdu, English and Punjabi and a civil society activist.

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Hasrat Mohani

Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan (1 January 1875 – 13 May 1951), known by his pen-name Hasrat Mohani, was an Indian activist, freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement and a noted poet of the Urdu language. List of Urdu poets and Hasrat Mohani are Urdu-language poets.

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Hassan Raza Khan

Hassan Raza Khan Bareilwi was an Indian islamic scholar, sufi and poet and the younger brother of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan, the main leader of the Ahle Sunnat movement.

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Himayat Ali Shair

Himayat Ali Shair (حمایت علی شاعر; 14 July 1926 – 15 July 2019) was an Urdu poet, writer, film songwriter, actor and radio drama artist from Pakistan.

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Hindustani language

Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).

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Ibn-e-Insha

Sher Muhammad Khan (شیر مُحمّد خان), (Punjabi), better known by his pen name Ibn-e-Insha, (اِبنِ اِنشا), (Punjabi) (15 June 1927 – 11 January 1978) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, humorist, travelogue writer and newspaper columnist.

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Ibrahim Adil Shah II

Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1570 – 12 September 1627) was Sultan of the Sultanate of Bijapur and a member of the Adil Shahi dynasty.

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Ibrahim Ali Tashna

Shāh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ʿAlī (শাহ মোহাম্মদ ইবরাহীম আলী; 1872 – 11 September 1931) was a Bengali Islamic scholar, poet and activist of the Khilafat Movement. List of Urdu poets and Ibrahim Ali Tashna are Urdu-language poets.

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Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali

Ibrahim Qutb Shah Wali (1518 – 5 June 1580), also known by his Telugu names Malki BhaRama and Ibharama Chakravarti, was the fourth monarch of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India.

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Idris Azad

Idris Azad (ادریس آزاد, Idrees Ahmad ادریس احمد) born on 7 August 1969, is an author, philosopher, novelist, poet, dramatist and columnist.

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Iftikhar Arif

Iftikhar Hussain Arif (افتخار حسین عارف; born 21 March 1944), is an Urdu poet, scholar and littérateur from Pakistan.

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Insha Allah Khan

Insha Allah Khan (اِنشا اللہ خاں; c. 1752 Murshidabad –1817), known as Insha, was an Urdu poet in the courts of Lucknow and Delhi in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

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Irshad Kamil

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Ismail Alam

Abū al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ʿAlī (আবুল আজীজ মোহাম্মদ ইসমাঈল আলী; 1868–1937) was a Bengali politician, teacher and activist of the Khilafat Movement. List of Urdu poets and Ismail Alam are Urdu-language poets.

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Jagan Nath Azad

Jagan Nath Azad (5 December 1918 – 24 July 2004), List.No.380 was an Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician.

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Jamal Ehsani

Jamal Ehsani (جمال احسانی) (April 21, 1951 – February 10, 1998), was a Pakistani poet noted for his work in the ghazal form and was a favourite poet in the student's circle of Urdu literature.

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Jan Nisar Akhtar

Jan Nisar Akhtar (18 February 1914 – 19 August 1976) was an Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood.

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Jaun Elia

Syed Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, commonly known by his pen-name Jaun Elia (جون ایلیا, 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was a Pakistani poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar.

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Javed Akhtar

Javed Akhtar (born 17 January 1945) is an Indian screenwriter, lyricist and poet.

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Jayant Parmer

Jayant Parmar (born 11 October 1954) is an Indian Urdu language poet known for raising Dalit issues in his poetry.

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Jazib Qureshi

Jazib Qureshi (جاذب قریشی) (born 3 August 1940) is an Urdu poet, writer and critic from Pakistan.

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Jigar Moradabadi

Ali Sikandar (6 April 1890 – 9 September 1960), known by his pen name as Jigar Moradabadi, was an Indian Urdu poet and ghazal writer. List of Urdu poets and Jigar Moradabadi are Urdu-language poets.

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Josh Malihabadi

Josh Malihabadi (born Shabbir Hasan Khan; 5 December 1898 – 22 February 1982) popularly known as Shayar-e-Inqalab (poet of revolution) was a Pakistani poet.

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Josh Malsiyani

Labhu Ram (1883-1976), better known by his pen name Josh Malsiyani, was an Indian Urdu poet who much acclaimed during his time.

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Kabir

Kabir (8 June 1398–1518 CE) was a well-known Indian mystic poet and sant.

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Kaif Bhopali

Kaif Bhopali (20 February 1920 – 24 July 1991) was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.

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Kaifi Azmi

Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Kanwal Ziai

Kanwal Ziai (born Hardayal Singh Datta) (15 March 1927 – 27 October 2011) was an Urdu and Hindi language poet and author from India.

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Kashmiri Lal Zakir

Kashmiri Lal Zakir (7 April 1919 – 31 August 2016) was an Indian poet, novelist, dramatist and short story writer of Urdu literature.

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Kazim Jarwali

Kazim Jarwali (کاظمجاروالی) (born 15 June 1955) is an Indian Urdu language poet.

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Khalid Irfan

Khalid Irfan (خالد عرفان.; born 3 July 1977 in Karachi, Pakistan) is an American-Pakistani comic poet.

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Khumar Barabankvi

Khumār Barabankvi (15 September 1919 – 19 February 1999) was the pen name of a Urdu poet and lyricist from Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. List of Urdu poets and Khumar Barabankvi are Urdu-language poets.

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Khushtar Girami

Khushtar Girami (1902–1988) (Urdu: خوشتر گرامی, Hindi: खुश्तर गिरामी) born Ram Rakha Mal Chadda, was a renowned Urdu writer and poet.

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Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1764 –1846) of Lucknow was an Urdu poet.

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Khwaja Mir Dard

Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) (خواجہ میر درد) was a poet of the Delhi, known for his contribution to Urdu poetry. List of Urdu poets and Khwaja Mir Dard are Urdu-language poets.

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Kishen Pershad

Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur Yamin us-Sultanat (1864 – 13 May 1940) was an Indian noble who served as Prime Minister of Hyderabad twice.

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Kishwar Naheed

Kishwar Naheed (کشور ناہید) (born 18 June 1940)In official documents her date of birth is recorded as 3 February 1940 which is not correct.

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Krishan Mohan

Krishan Mohan (28 November 1922 – 2004) was an Indian Urdu poet who gained prominence after India gained independence from the British Raj.

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Krishna Kumar Sharma

Krishna Kumar Sharma "Betaab" (1922 Muzaffarnagar – 2001 New Delhi) was a prominent activist in the Indian Independence Movement.

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Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi Sahar

Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi, pen name Sahar, was an Indian Urdu poet.

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List of Pakistani poets

This is a list of noted Pakistani poets, poets born or raised in Pakistan, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the languages of Pakistan.

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M. G. Gupta

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Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi

Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi (3 March 1900 – 26 September 1966) was a political activist from Bihar, prominent in the Indian independence movement.

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Mah Laqa Bai

Mah Laqa Bai (7 April 1768 – August 1824), born Chanda Bai, and sometimes referred to as Mah Laqa Chanda, was an Indian 18th century Urdu poet, courtesan (tawaif) and philanthropist based in Hyderabad.

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Mahmood Shaam

Mahmood Shaam (محمود شام) born Tariq Mahmood (طارق محمود) on 5 February 1940, is a Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet, writer and news analyst.

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Majaz

Asrar-ul-Haq (19 October 1911 to 5 December 1955), better known as Majaz Lakhnawi, was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Majeed Amjad

Majeed Amjad (Punjabi, مجید امجد) (29 June 1914 – 11 May 1974) was an Urdu poet from Pakistan.

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Majrooh Sultanpuri

Asrar ul Hassan Khan (1 October 1919 − 24 May 2000), better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in the Hindi language film industry.

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Makhdoom Mohiuddin

Makhdoom Mohiuddin, or Abu Sayed Muhammad Makhdoom Mohiuddin Khudri, (2 February 1908 – 25 August 1969) was an Urdu poet and Marxist political activist of India who founded the Progressive Writers Union in Hyderabad and was active with the Comrades Association and the Communist Party of India, and at the forefront of the 1946–1947 Telangana Rebellion against the Nizam of the erstwhile Hyderabad state.

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Makhmoor Saeedi

Makhmoor Saeedi (31 December 1938 – 2 March 2010) (Urdu: مخمور سعیدی) was an Urdu poet, writer, translator and journalist from Tonk, Rajasthan, India.

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Mashal Sultanpuri

Mohammed Ramzan Bhat (1937 October 2020), known by his pen name as Mashal Sultanpuri, was a Kashmiri poet, writer and critic.

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Masud Husain Khan

Masud Husain Khan (28 January 1919 – 16 October 2010) was an Indian linguist, the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi.

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Mazhar Imam

Mazhar Imam (12 March 1928 – 30 January 2012), born in Darbhanga District of Bihar, was an Urdu poet and critic.

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Meena Kumari

Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano; 1 August 1933 – 31 March 1972) was an Indian actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films.

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Meeraji

Mohammad Sanaullah Dar (25 May 1912 – 3 November 1949), better known as Meeraji was an Indian Urdu poet. List of Urdu poets and Meeraji are Urdu-language poets.

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Mir Anees

Mir Babar Ali Anees (مير ببر على انيس, 1800-1874), also known as Mir Anees was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Mir Taqi Mir

Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer), was an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself.

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Mirabai

Meera, better known as Mirabai, and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna.

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Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan

Mirzā Mazhar Jān-i Jānān (مرزا مظہر جانِ جاناں), also known by his laqab Shamsuddīn Habībullāh (13 March 1699 – 6 January 1781), was a renowned Hanafi Maturidi Naqshbandī Sufi poet of Delhi, distinguished as one of the "four pillars of Urdu poetry."And Muhammad is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic piety, by Annemarie Schimmel (Chappel hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985) He was also known to his contemporaries as the sunnītarāsh, "Sunnicizer", for his absolute, unflinching commitment to and imitation of the Sunnah.

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Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda

Mirza Mohammad rafi 'Sauda' (مِرزا مُحمّد رفِیع سَودا), (1713–1781) was an Urdu poet in Delhi, India.

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Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer

Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer (مِرزا سلامت علی دبِیر), (29 August 1803 – 6 March 1875) was an Urdu poet who excelled and perfected the art of Marsiya writing.

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Mohammad Ali Jauhar

Muhammad Ali Jauhar Khan (10 December 1878 – 4 January 1931) was an Indian Muslim freedom activist, a pre-eminent member of Indian National Congress, journalist and a poet, a leading figure of the Khilafat Movement and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia.

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Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq

Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq (1790 – November 1854) was an Urdu poet and scholar of literature, poetry and religion. List of Urdu poets and Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq are Urdu-language poets.

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Mohinder Pratap Chand

Mohinder Pratap Chand (1 August 1935 – 19 October 2020) was an Urdu writer and poet of India who promoted Urdu language and literature in India.

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Mohsin Bhopali

Mohsin Bhopali (مُحسِن بھوپالی.) (born 1932 - 17 January 2007) was a Pakistani poet.

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Mohsin Naqvi

Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi (سید محسن رضا نقوی.; born 28 October 1978) is a Pakistani politician and Senator who is the current Interior Minister of Pakistan, in office since 11 March 2024 and the current Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, in office since 6 February 2024.

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Mohsin Zaidi

Mohsin Zaidi (10 July 1935 – 3 September 2003) was an Indian Urdu poet who used the pen name 'Mohsin'.

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Momin Khan Momin

Momin Khan Momin (1800 – 14 May 1852) was a late Mughal era poet known for his Urdu ghazals.

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Muhammad Iqbal

Sir Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 187721 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. List of Urdu poets and Muhammad Iqbal are Urdu-language poets.

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Muhammad Izhar ul Haq

Muhammad Izhar ul Haq (born 14 February 1948) is a poet of Urdu language, a columnist and analyst from Pakistan.

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Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar

Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar (محمد مصطفٰی جوہر) (10 May 1895 – 24 October 1985) was a Pakistani scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher.

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Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (4 April 156511 January 1612) was the fifth sultan of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golkonda and founded the city of Hyderabad, in South-central India and built its architectural centerpiece, the Charminar. List of Urdu poets and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah are Urdu-language poets.

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Munavvar Lakhnavi

Munavvar Lakhnavi (Urdu: منوّر لکھنوی) was an Urdu poet who gained repute as a poet and also as a translator.

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Munawwar Rana

Munawwar Rana (26 November 1952 – 14 January 2024) was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Munir Niazi

Munir Ahmed Niazi (Punjabi, Urdu:; 19 April 1923 – 26 December 2006), was a Pakistani poet of the Punjabi and Urdu languages.

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Murtaza Birlas

Murtaza Birlas (مرتضیٰ برلاس.) (also spelled Barlas) is a poet of modern Urdu Ghazal from Pakistan.

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Mustafa Zaidi

Mustafa Zaidi (born Syed Mustafa Hasnain Zaidi; 10 October 1930 – 12 October 1970) was a Pakistani Urdu poet and a civil servant.

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Muzaffar Warsi

Muzaffar Warsi (23 December 1933 – 28 January 2011; مظفر وارثی) was a Pakistani poet, essayist, lyricist, and a scholar of Urdu.

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Muztar Khairabadi

Iftikhar Hussain (1865 – 27 March 1927), known by his pen name Muztar Khairabadi, was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Naeem Hashmi

Naeem Hashmi (1914 27 April 1976) was a Pakistani film, television and stage actor, writer, poet, producer, and director.

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Naresh Kumar Shad

Naresh Kumar Shad (1927 1969) (Urdu: نریش کُمار شاد) (Hindi: नरेश कुमार शाद) was a ghazal, qat'aa and rubai writer.

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Naseeruddin Naseer Gilani

Syed Ghulam Naseer-ud-Din Naseer Gillani (14 November 1949 – 13 February 2009) (پیرسید نصیر الدین نصیرگیلانی‬) was a Pakistani poet and Islamic scholar of the Chishti Sufi orders.

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Nasir Kazmi

Nasir Raza Kazmi (سید ناصِر رضا كاظمی was an Urdu poet from Pakistan. Kazmi was born on 8 December 1925 at Ambala, Punjab, (British India). Kazmi used simple words in his poetry, including "Chand", "Raat", "Baarish", "Mausam", "Yaad", "Tanhai", "Darya" and gave them life by his style of poetry.

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Nazeer Akbarabadi

Nazeer Akbarabadi (born Wali Muhammad; 1735 – 1830) was an 18th-century Indian poet known as "Father of Nazm", who wrote Urdu ghazals and nazms under the pen name (takhallus) "Nazeer", most remembered for his poems like Banjaranama (Chronicle of the Nomad), a satire. List of Urdu poets and Nazeer Akbarabadi are Urdu-language poets.

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Nazish Pratapgarhi

Nazish Pratapgarhi was an Urdu poet from India, He was honoured with the "Meer and Ghalib" award by the President Of India.who was known for his thoughts and ability to create contact between himself and lovers of Urdu poetry.

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Niaz Fatehpuri

Niaz Fatehpuri (1884–1966) was the pen name of Niyaz Muhammed Khan, a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, and polemicist.

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Nida Fazli

Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli, known as Nida Fazli (12 October 1938 – 8 February 2016), was a prominent Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer.

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Noon Meem Danish

Noor Mohammed Danish (نور محمد دانش; born 1958), also known as Noon Meem Danish, is a Pakistani poet of African and Baloch descent.

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Noon Meem Rashid

Nazar Muhammad Rashed (نذر مُحَمَّد راشِد), (1 August 1910 – 9 October 1975) commonly known as Noon Meem Rashed (ن۔ م۔ راشد.) or N.M. Rashed, was a Pakistani poet of modern Urdu poetry.

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Nushoor Wahidi

Hafeez-ul-Rehman –, known by his pen name Nushoor Wahidi (نشور وحیدی; sometimes spelled Nushoor Wahedi or Nushoor Vahidi), was an Indian Urdu poet.

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Nusrati

Muḥammad Nuṣrat (died 1674), called Nuṣratī ('victorious'), was a Deccani Urdu poet.

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Obaidullah Aleem

Obaidullah Aleem (عبیدالله علیم., 12 June 1939 – 18 May 1998) was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language.

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Parveen Shakir

Parveen Shakir (24 November 1952 – 26 December 1994) was a Pakistani poet, teacher and a civil servant of the government of Pakistan.

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Persian literature

Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures.

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Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat

Qalandar Bakhsh Jurat was an Indian poet of the Lucknow school.

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Qamar Jalalabadi

Om Prakash Bhandari (9 March 1917 – 9 January 2003), better known as Qamar Jalalabadi, was an Indian poet and lyricist of songs for Hindi movies.

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Qamar Jalalvi

Qamar Jalalvi (18871968, قمَر جلالوی) (born Muhammad Husain and also known as Ustad Qamar Jalalvi) was a Pakistani poet, author and writer.

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Qateel Shifai

Muhammad Aurangzeb or Qateel Shifai (قتیل شفائی; 24 December 1919 – 11 July 2001) was a Pakistani Urdu poet and lyricist.

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Qayem Chandpuri

Muhammad Qyamuddin Ali, known as Qaim Chandpuri or Kayem Chandpuri (1722-1793), was an Indian poet.

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Raaz Chandpuri

Raaz Chandpuri (born Mohammad Sadiq; 189a2-1969) was an Indian poet and literary critic, known for writing Urdu ghazal and nazm.

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Raees Warsi

Raees Warsi (رئیس وارثی.; born 1 March 1963) is a Pakistani American Urdu poet, journalist, lyricist, TV anchor and social worker.

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Rafiq Husain

Rafiq Husain (رفیق حسین) born Syed Rafiq Husain (14 May 1913 – 31 December 1990) was an Urdu writer, poet and critic from India.

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Rahat Indori

Rahat Indori, born as Rahat Qureshi, (1 January 1950 – 11 August 2020) was an Indian Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet.

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Rahi Masoom Raza

Rahi Masoom Raza (1 September 1927 – 15 March 1992) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi poet and writer and a Bollywood lyricist.

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Rais Amrohvi

Rais Amrohvi (رئیس امروہوی), whose real name was Syed Muhammad Mehdi (1914–1988) was a Pakistani scholar, Urdu poet, paranormal investigator, and psychoanalyst and elder brother of Jaun Elia.

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Raj Kumar Pathria

Raj Kumar Pathria (born March 30, 1933) is a theoretical physicist, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Waterloo, and an Urdu poet.

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Raja Mehdi Ali Khan

Raja Mehdi Ali Khan (23 September 1915 – 29 July 1966) was an Indian poet, writer and a lyricist.

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Rajindar Nath Rehbar

Rajendar Nath Rehbar (5 November 1931 - 13 November 2022) was an Indian Urdu-language poet and Bollywood lyricist. List of Urdu poets and Rajindar Nath Rehbar are Urdu-language poets.

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Rajinder Manchanda Bani

Rajinder Manchanda Bani (1932-1981) was an Indian poet.

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Ram Prasad Bismil

Ram Prasad Bismil (11 June 1897 – 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, and revolutionary who fought against British Raj, participating in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925.

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Ratan Pandoravi

Rattan Pandoravi (رتن پنڈوروی.) as pen name born Rala Ram (رالا رام) 7 July 1907 – 4 November 1990, was an Urdu poet and scholar from India.

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Ravish Siddiqi

Ravish Siddiqi (روش صدیقی, 1911–1971) born Shahid Aziz at Jwalapur in District Saharanpur of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh on 11 July 1911 was a renowned Urdu Ghazal and Nazm writer whose forte was Romantic Poetry and Patriotic Poetry. List of Urdu poets and Ravish Siddiqi are Urdu-language poets.

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Raza Naqvi Wahi

Raza Naqvi Wahi (born Syed Mohammad Raza Naqvi; 19 January 1914 – 5 January 2002) was an Indian Urdu-language poet during his time.

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Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (ریاض احمد گوھر شاہی) (born 25 November 1941) is a spiritual leader and founder of the spiritual movements RAGS International (now known as Messiah Foundation International) and Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam.

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Riaz Tasneem

Riaz Tasneem (1969 – 4 December 2017; sometimes spelled Riaz Tasnim or Riyaz Tasneem), was a Pakistani poet, literary critic and research scholar who primarily wrote poems in Pashto and Urdu language throughout his literary career.

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Rishi Patialvi

Rishi Patialvi (رِشی پٹیالوی), (1917–1999), born Bam Dev Sharma, hailing from Hoshiarpur District (Punjab), was a popular Urdu poet belonging to Daagh Dehlvi’s lineage.

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Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin

Nawab Saadat Yaar Khan Rangin (سعادت یار خان رنگِین) (1757, Sirhind – 1835, Lucknow) was an Urdu poet and prose writer.

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Sadhu Singh Hamdard

Sadhu Singh Hamdard (1918–1984) was an Indian freedom fighter and journalist, excelling in both Urdu and Punjabi and an innovative poet, who carried in his name the pseudonym 'Hamdard', "sharing with all the pangs of their hearts," "friendly towards all.".

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Saghar Nizami

Saghar Nizami (1905–1983), also known as Samad Yar Khan, was an Indian poet and writer of ghazal and nazm in Urdu.

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Saghar Siddiqui

Saghar Siddiqui (born Muhammad Akhtar; 14 Aug 1928 – 19 July 1974), was a Pakistani Urdu poet.

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Sahir Hoshiarpuri

Sahir Hoshiarpuri (ساحِر ہوشیارپُوری) (साहिर होशियारपुर.), born Ram Parkash Sharma (رامپرکاش.) (राम प्रकाश.) was an Urdu poet from India.

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Sahir Ludhianvi

Chaudhary Abdul Hayee Gujjar (8 March 1921 – 25 October 1980), popularly known by his pen name (takhallus) Sahir Ludhianvi, was an Indian poet who wrote primarily in Urdu in addition to Hindi.

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Sajjad Zaheer

Syed Sajjad Zaheer (سید سجاد ظہیر) (5 November 1905 – 13 September 1973) was an Indian Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue and radical revolutionary who worked in both India and Pakistan. List of Urdu poets and Sajjad Zaheer are Urdu-language poets.

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Salaam Machhalishahari

Salaam Machhalishahari (1921-1972), or Salam Machhali Sheri, was an Indian Urdu-language poet. List of Urdu poets and Salaam Machhalishahari are Urdu-language poets.

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Saleem Kausar

Saleem Kausar (سلیمکوثر), born Muhammad Saleem (محمد سلیم) is a Pakistani Urdu poet.

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Salma Shaheen

Salma Shaheen (born 16 April 1954) is a Pakistani poet, fiction writer, researcher, and the first Pashto-woman novelist, who also served as the first-woman director of Pashto Academy of University of Peshawar.

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Samina Raja

Samina Raja (ثمینہ راجہ.&lrm; 11 September 1961 – 30 October 2012) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, editor, translator, educationist and broadcaster.

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Sara Shagufta

Sara Shagufta (31 October 1954 – 4 June 1984) was a Pakistani poet who wrote poetry in Urdu and Punjabi language.

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Sardar Panchhi

Sardar Panchhi (original name: Karnail Singh, born 14 October 1932) is a Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi poet. List of Urdu poets and Sardar Panchhi are Urdu-language poets.

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Sarim Momin

Sarim Momin (صارممومن.) (born 10 December 1978 in Mumbai, India), is a filmmaker, writer, and lyricist for many Bollywood movies.

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Satyapal Anand

Satyapal Anand (सत्य पाल आनंद., ستیا پال آنند; born April 24, 1931) is an Indian-American poet, critic and writer. List of Urdu poets and Satyapal Anand are Urdu-language poets.

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Sayeed Quadri

Sayeed Quadri is an Indian lyricist and poet who works in Hindi cinema.

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Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri

Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri (9 August 1909 – 5 October 1985), known as Lisan-ul-Mulk, was a writer, author, critic, editor-in-chief, Indian independence activist, Indian politician and an acclaimed figure of Hyderabad, India.

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Seemab Akbarabadi

Seemab Akbarabadi (سیماب اکبرآبادی) born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui (عاشق حسین صدیقی, 5th June 1882 – 31 January 1951) was an Urdu poet from British India and Pakistan.

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Shabnam Romani

Mirza Azim Beg Chughtai (December 30, 1928 – February 17, 2009), known in literary circles by his takhallus (pen name) Shabnam Romani (شبنمرومانی.), was a renowned Urdu poet based in Karachi, Pakistan.

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Shah Jahan

Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I, was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658.

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Shah Mubarak Abroo

Najamuddin Shah Mubarak Ābroo (1683–1733) was an Indian poet.

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Shahin Badar

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Shahzad A. Rizvi

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Shakeb Jalali

Shakeb Jalali or Shakeeb Jalali (شکیب جلالی), born Syed Hassan Rizvi (1 October 1934 – 12 November 1966), was a Pakistani Urdu poet, considered one of the distinguished Urdu poets of the post-independence era.

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Shakeel Badayuni

Shakeel Badayuni (3 August 1916 – 20 April 1970) was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi / Urdu language films.

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Shamim Farooqui

Shamim Farooqui (25 December 1943 – 29 August 2014) was an Urdu poet from India.

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Shamim Hashimi

Shamim Hashimi (Urdu/Persian/Arabic:; शमीम हाशिमी.; born Syed Muhammad Shamimuddin on 14 August 1947) is an Urdu and Persian poet.

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Shamim Karhani

Shamim Karhani (8 June 1913 - 19 March 1975) was an eminent Urdu poet ('Shayar') of the 20th century.

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Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee

Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee (شان الحق حقـّی), Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Tamgha-e-Quaid-i-Azam, was an Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, translator, critic, researcher, linguist and lexicographer of Pakistan.

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Shibli Nomani

Shibli Nomani (4 June 1857 – 18 November 1914) was an Islamic scholar, poet, philosopher, historian, educational thinker, author, orator, reformer and critic of orientalists from Indian subcontinent during the British Raj.

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Shifa Gwaliori

Shifa Gwaliori (1912–1968) was an Urdu poet.

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Sibt-e-Jaafar Zaidi

Sayyid Sibte Jaffar Zaidi (سيد سبط جعفر زيدى.) or commonly known as Ustad Sibte Jaffar (Urdu: اُستاد سبطِ جعفر) (born 1957) was a Pakistani professor, poet, advocate, principal, religious reciter, writer and social worker.

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Sikandar Ali Wajd

Sikandar Ali Wajd (1914–1983) was a talented Urdu poet from Aurangabad, Maharashtra India.

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Siraj Aurangabadi

Sayyid Sirajuddin, commonly known as Siraj Aurangabadi (1715–1763), was an Indian mystic poet who initially wrote in Persian and later started writing in Urdu.

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Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan Arzu

Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan (سراج الدین علی خاں آرزو) (1687-1756), also known by his pen-name Arzu, was a Delhi-based poet, linguist and lexicographer of the Mughal Empire.

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Soz Dehlvi

Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi (1720–1799) was an Urdu poet in the court of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula.

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Sudarshan Faakir

Sudarshan Kamra (1934 – 19 February 2008), better known by his takhallus Sudarshan Faakir, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist.

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Sulaiman Areeb

Sulaiman Areeb (05 April 1922 - 07 September 1972) was an Indian poet from Aurangabad.

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Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi

Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi (19 September 1948 – 10 February 2002), also known as Adeeb-e-Asr and Allamah Shaoor, was an Indian Twelver Shī'ah, public speaker, translator, historian and author. List of Urdu poets and Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi are Urdu-language poets.

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Syed Amin Ashraf

Syed Amin Ashraf (10 July 1930 – 7 February 2013) was an Indian Urdu Ghazal poet and critic. List of Urdu poets and Syed Amin Ashraf are Urdu-language poets.

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Syed Mahmood Khundmiri

Syed Mahmood Khundmiri (سید محمود خوندمیری) (known popularly by his takhallus Talib) was an Indian Urdu language poet, humorist, architect, artist, orator, and one of the leading Urdu poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. List of Urdu poets and Syed Mahmood Khundmiri are Urdu-language poets.

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References

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