List of Urdu poets

The following is a List of Urdu-language poets.

13th century

PoetImagePen NameEraWork
Amir Khusro(1253–1325)Tuhfat-us-Sigh
Bande Nawaz(1321–1442)
Kabir(15th century)

15th century

PoetImagePen NameEraWork
MeeraMira Bai1498

16th century

PoetImagePen NameEraWork
Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali1518 – 5 June 1580
Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana(1556 – 1627)Wrote poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi
Ali Adil Shah I1558–1579
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah(1565–1611)Kulliyat-e-Quli Qutub Shah wrote poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi
Ibrahim Adil Shah II1571 – 12 September 1627
Chandar Bhan Brahmanunknown – 1662Brahman was appointed as court chronicler and he was give responsibility for maintaining Shah Jahan's personal diary. He wrote a memoir Chahar Chaman

17th century

PoetImagePen NameEraWork
Nusrati (died 1674)
Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil Dehlavi Bedil (1642-1720)
Wali Muhammad Wali

Wali Deccani(1667–1707)
Shah Mubarak Abroo(1683–1733)
Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan ArzuArzu(1687–1756)Mehr-o-Mah, Guka-ri-Kayal
Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan

Jan-e-Janaan(1699–1781)Majmua-Urdu-Ashaar

18th century

Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi, the poet first believed to have coined the name "Urdu" around 1780 AD for a language that went by a multiplicity of names before his time.[1]

19th century

1900

1910

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

Non-Muslim Urdu poets

20th century

Contemporary poets

Poets with unknown dates of birth

Contemporary poets with unknown dates of birth

See also

References

  1. Garcia, Maria Isabel Maldonado. "The Urdu language reforms." Studies 26 (2011): 97.
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