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Listed below are major Urdu poets, sorted by date of birth. As far as possible in the list below, the takhallus nom de plume , is in italics
List Chronologically, Urdu poets have included:
Quli Qutub Shah (1565 - 1611) Wali Deccani (1635 - 1707) Siraj Aurangabadi (1715 - 1763) Khwaja Mir Dard (1721 - 1785)Mir Taqi Mir (1723 - 1810) Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi (1725 - 1824) Inshallah Khan Insha (1757 - 1817) Khwaja Haidar Ali Atish (1778 - 1846) Iman Baksh Nasikh (1787 - 1838) Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797 - 1869)Hakim Momin Khan Momin (1801 - 1852) Mir Babar Ali Anis (1802 - 1874) Mirza Salamat Ali Dabir (1803 - 1875) Nawab Mirza Khan Dagh Dehelwi (1831 - 1905)Mohammad Husain Azad (1830 - 1910) Altaf Husain Hali (1837 - 1914)Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877 - 1938)Josh Malihabadi (1898 - 1982)Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911 - 1984)Makhdoom Mohiuddin (1908 - 1969) Majaz Lucknawi (1909 - 1955) Ali Sardar Jafri (b.1913) Zamir Jafri [1] (http://www.zamirjafri.org/ ) )Kaifi Azmi (1918-2002) Qateel Shifai (1919 - 2001)Sahir Ludhianawi (1921 - 1980)Nasir Kazmi (1925 - 1972) Jaun Elia (1931 - 2003) Ahmed Faraz (b.1931) Adil Mansuri (b.1936) Syed Sibi-i-Ali Saba (1941-1980) Javed Akhtar (b.1945) Other major poets are:
Ustadh Zauq Ibne Insha Qabil AjmeriDilawar Figar Jan Nisar Akhtar
See also Urdu poetry , Urdu , List of poets , Progressive Writers' Movement
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Urdu poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (417 words)
Over this period, Urdu poets have produced a large number of primarily poetic works. This is because in the ghazal form, the poet would usually incorporate his or her pen name into the final couplet (maqta) of each poem as a type of 'signature'. Alphabetical Index of Poets : A collection of representative poems of a number of leading Urdu poets.Script: English (Phonetic).
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