Indian Islamic scholar and philosopher (1857–1914)
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Shibli Nomani (Urdu: علّامہ شِبلی نُعمانی – ʿAllāmah Šiblī Noʿmānī; 3 June 1857 – 18 November 1914, Azamgarh district) was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent during British Raj ...
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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 nom de plume (takhallus) "Nazeer", most remembered for ...
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال; 9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a Muslim poet, philosopher and politician from Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan), whose poetry in Urdu and ...
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Sir Raza Ali Khan Bahadur GCIE, KCSI (17 November 1908 – 6 March 1966) was a nawab of the princely state of Rampur from 1930 to 1966. A tolerant and progressive ruler, Sir Raza expanded the number of Hindus ...
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Syed Akbar Hussain, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi (16 November 1846 – 15 February 1921) was an Indian Urdu poet in the genre of satire.
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Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) (Urdu: خواجہ میر درد) was a poet of the Delhi School and a Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddadi religious order.
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Mir Babar Ali Anees (Urdu: مير ببر على انيس) (1803–1874), also known as Mir Anees was an Urdu poet. He used his pen-name (thakallus) of Anees (Urdu: انيس, Anees means "close friend, companion") ...
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Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), also known as Mir Taqi Mir or Meer Taqi Meer, was an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal India, and one of the pioneers who gave shape ...
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Mahirul Qadri (Urdu ماہر القادری) whose real name was Manzoor Hussain was a writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in village Kesar Kalan Tahsil Pilibhit on 30 July 1906, in Bulandshahar district of Uttar ...
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Mir Amman (1748–1806) was an employee of Fort William College at Calcutta, variously also known as Mir Amman of Delhi, Mir Amman of Dilhi, Mir Amman Dihlavi, and Meer Ummun.
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Khwaja Hasan Nizami (1873 Delhi-31 July 1955 Delhi) (خواجہ حسن نظامی) was an Indian Sufi saint of Chishti Islamic order, a well known Urdu essayist and humorist who wrote many essays for the Mukhzun Akhbar ...
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Allama Rashid-ul-Khairi, born as Mohammad Abdur Rashid and largely known as Musavire Gham (مصوّرِ غم), was a social reformer of British India and is one of the most celebrated literary names of Urdu l ...
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Shamim Hashimi (Urdu/Persian/Arabic: شمیم ہاشمی; Hindi: शमीम हाशिमी) born Syed Muhammad Shamimuddin on 14 August 1947, is an Urdu and Persian poet. He is basically a poet of Ghazal. He has also written ...
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Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer (Urdu: مِرزا سلامت علی دبِیر ), (1803–1875) was an Urdu poet who excelled and perfected the art of Marsiya writing. He is considered the leading exponent of Marsiya Nigari ...
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Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq (1790–1854) was an Urdu poet and scholar of literature, poetry and religion. He wrote poetry under nom de plume "Zauq", and was appointed poet laureate of the Mughal Court ...
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Syed Azhar Shah Qaiser (1920-1985) was an Indian Islamic scholar, journalist and writer. He penned many articles and books in Urdu. He was elder son of the widely known Indian hadith scholar, Anwar Shah ...
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال ) (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal (علامہ اقبال), was a poet, philosopher, and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and ...
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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. He used Dilgeer as his pseudonym.
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Wasif Hussain Nadeem al-Wajidi (born 23 July 1954), also spelled Maulana Nadeem-Ul-Wajidi, is an Indian Islamic scholar, columnist, critic, and writer who specializes in Urdu and Arabic language and l ...