Muhammad Baqir
- ʿABD-AL-ḤAYY AWRANGĀBĀDĪ
ʿABD-AL-ḤAYY B. ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ, “ṢĀREM” AWRANGĀBĀDĪ (1142-96/1729-82), administrator, poet, and biographer. In 1162/1749 the Neẓām of Hyderabad, Nāṣer Jang (1161-64/1748-50), appointed…
- ʿABD-AL-ḠANĪ KHAN
ʿABD-AL-ḠANĪ KHAN MEO, MAWLAVĪ MOḤAMMAD (poetical name, ḠANĪ), Indian literary scholar. He was born and raised in Farrukhabad, but the…
- ʿABD-AL-LAṬĪF BHETĀʾĪ
ʿABD-AL-LAṬĪF BHETĀʾĪ, SHAH, Sufi poet of Sind. Born in the village of Haveli, near Hala, in the district of Hyderabad,…
- ʿABD-AL-NABĪ AḤMADNAGARĪ
ʿABD-AL-NABĪ B. QĀŻĪ ʿABD-AL-RASŪL ʿOṮMĀNĪ AḤMADNAGARĪ, 12th/18th century Gujerati scholar. Little is known about his life history, although he was…
- ʿABD-AL-NABĪ QAZVĪNĪ
ʿABD-AL-NABĪ QAZVĪNĪ, storyteller and poet (pen name FAḴR-AL-ZAMĀNĪ), b. about 998/1590 at Qazvīn. His father, Ḵalaf Beg, was a merchant…
- ʿABD-AL-QĀDER ḤOSAYNĪ
ʿABD-AL-QĀDER B. SAYYED MOḤAMMAD HĀŠEM B. SAYYED MOḤAMMAD ḤOSAYNĪ, Persian-language poet, biographer, and commentator of Sind (fl. late 10th to…
- ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN JĀʾEŠĪ
ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN JĀʾESĪ, late Mughal biographer, commonly called ḠOLĀM QĀDER KHAN. He was the son of Mawlavī Vāṣel ʿAlī Khan,…
- ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD B. AFŻAL MOḤAMMAD
ʿABD-AL-ṢAMAD B. AFŻAL MOḤAMMAD B. YŪSOF ANṢĀRĪ, Mughal editor and author. He was a nephew of Akbar’s prime minister, Shaikh…
- ABJADĪ
ABJADĪ, poetical name of MĪR MOḤAMMAD ESMĀʿĪL KHAN, 18th century south-Indian poet of Persian and Urdu. His was born in…
- ABŪ ṬĀLEB KHAN LANDANĪ
ABŪ ṬĀLEB KHAN LANDANĪ B. ḤĀJJĪ MOḤAMMAD BEG KHAN TABRĪZĪ EṢFAHĀNĪ, official and author in British India. His father, an…
- AFSŪS
AFSŪS (AFSŌS), the taḵalloṣ of MĪR ŠĪR-ʿALĪ, late 18th century poet and translator of India. He was born at Nayā…
- ʿALĪ MOTTAQĪ
ʿALĪ MOTTAQĪ, SHAIKH ʿALAʾ-AL-DĪN B. ḤOSĀM-AL-DĪN ʿABD AL-MĀLEK, a saint and Hadith scholar of India (885-975/1481-1567). Born at Borhanpur, he…
- AMĀNAT
AMĀNAT (MONŠĪ AMĀNAT RĀY AMĀNAT), 12th/18th century poet in Persian who imitated the style of his teacher, Mīrzā ʿAbd-al-Qāder Bīdel….
- ʿĀQEL, MIRZA MOḤAMMAD
ʿĀQEL, MĪRZĀ MOḤAMMAD HONARVAR KHAN, Kashmiri poet and courtier who flourished in the first half of the 12th/18th century (B….
- AŠRAF-ʿALĪ KHAN FOḠĀN
AŠRAF-ʿALĪ KHAN FOḠĀN (or FEḠĀN), poet writing in Persian and Urdu (1140-86/1727-72); he was the son of Mīrzā-ʿAlī Khan Nokta…
- ĀTAŠ, Ḵᵛāja ʿAlī Ḥaydar
“ĀTAŠ,” ḴᵛĀJA ʿALĪ ḤAYDAR B. ḴᵛĀJA ʿALĪ BAḴŠ, late eighteenth-early nineteenth-century Indo-Muslim poet in Persian and Urdu. He belonged to…
- AẒFARĪ GŪRGĀNĪ
AẒFARĪ GŪRGĀNĪ, MOḤAMMAD ẒAHĪR-AL-DĪN MĪRZĀ ʿALĪ BAḴT, B. SOLṬĀN MOḤAMMAD-WALĪ (Walīy) also called MĪRZĀ-YE KALĀN, Indo-Persian poet and lexicographer. He…
- ʿAẒĪM NAVĀZ KHAN BAHĀDOR
ʿAẒĪM NAVĀZ KHAN BAHĀDOR, MOʿTAMED JANG ʿOMDAT-AL-ʿOLAMĀʾ MAWLAWĪ MOḤAMMAD SEBḠATALLĀH B. MOḤAMMAD ḠAWṮ (fl. 1859), the author of a Sunni…
- RĀBET, ʿABD-AL-AḤAD
RĀBEṬ, ʿABD-AL-AḤAD, 19th-century Indian author of Persian works (d. 1268/1851-52). He was born at Amthi, the eldest son of Mawlawi…
- BĪJĀPŪR
BĪJĀPŪR, capital city and domain of the ʿĀdelšāhī dynasty (895-1097/1489-1686). It was located on the western Deccan plateau, bounded on…