Poets/Writers From Delhi

Contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq. He was also a physician, astrologer and chess player. Mirza Ghalib is said to have offered his complete diwan for his sher "tum mere paas hote ho goya, Jab koi doosra nahin hota".

Eminent Sufi poet of Delhi's famous Naqshbandi order of Sufis.

Religious scholar of Sufistic temperament who was assassinated due to religious reasons

Mirza Farhatullah Baig was an Indian Urdu writer of humor and prose, and a senior judge in Hyderabad

Considered to be the foremost poet of mathnawi.

Prominent Delhi poet known for his sher 'Mohabbat ke liye kuch khaas dil makhsus hote hain…'