Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil

Bidel was born around 1644 in Azimabad, present-day Patna, into a Turkic family of the Barlas tribe that had come from Bukhara; his mother tongue was Bengali. An orphan, he was raised by his uncle, the poet Mirza Qalandar, who introduced him to Sufis. Settled in Delhi in 1664, he served for a time in the army of Prince Muhammad Azam, which he left rather than write his praises. He composed in Persian ghazals, quatrains, an autobiography in rhymed prose and four great narrative poems, nearly a hundred and fifty thousand verses in all. He died in Delhi in 1720 or 1721.

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• Poetryطلسم حیرتMirza Abdul Qadir Bedil · 1669not translated into EnglishLiterature