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{{Short description|18th century Urdu poet}}
{{Infobox poet
| name = Mir Ghulam Hasan
| pseudonym = Hasan
| birth_date = {{birth year|1736}}
| death_date = {{death year and age|1786|1736}}
| death_place = [[Lucknow]]
| birth_place = [[Delhi]]
| language = [[Urdu]], [[Persian language|Persian]]
}}
'''Mir Ghulam Hasan''', known simply as '''Mīr Ḥasan''' or '''Mir Hasan Dehlavi''', was an biographer, critic, and Urdu poet.

He is known for his [[Mathnawi|masnavis]], the most famous being ''Sihar-ul-Bayan''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bruce|first=Gregory Maxwell|date=2019-12-01|title=Ḥasan, Mīr Ghulām|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/hasan-mir-ghulam-COM_30352|journal=Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE|language=en}}</ref> Other notable works include a diwan of [[ghazals]] and ''Tazkira-i-Shora-i-Urdu'', a [[tazkira]]{{dn|date=August 2021}} of Urdu poets, written in Persian.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Saksena|first=Ram Babu|title=A History of Urdu Literature|date=|pages=67-70}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Mir Hasan's ancestors were [[Sayyid|sayyids]] who belonged to [[Herat]]. His great grandfather Mir Imami migrated to India.<ref name=":0" />

Mir Hasan was born in [[Delhi]]. His father, Mir Zahik, was a poet.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2012-10-28|title=Tomb to tomb, dawn to dusk|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/tomb-to-tomb-dawn-to-dusk/article4037991.ece|access-date=2021-06-05|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Mir Hasan was educated in Urdu and Persian, and studied poetry as a child, submitting his poems to [[Khwaja Mir Dard]] for correction. After the [[Nader Shah's invasion of India|invasion of India 1739]] by [[Nader Shah]], his father emigrated to [[Faizabad]], the capital of [[Oudh State|Oudh]]. <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Haywood|first=J. A.|date=2012-04-24|title=Ḥasan, Mīr G̲h̲ulām|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/hasan-mir-ghulam-SIM_8605?s.num=369&s.rows=20&s.start=350|journal=Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition|language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Islam|Russell|1990|p=69}}

When the capital of Awadh was changed to [[Lucknow]], Mir Hasan also settled there. He died in Lucknow after a period of illness.<ref name=":0" /> He left behind four sons, three of whom were poets themselves.

== Notable works ==
* Dīvān-i Mīr Ḥasan,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ḥasan|first=Mīr|last2=cent|first2=18th|date=1912-01-01|title=Dīvān-i Mīr Ḥasan: Naval Kishore Press|url=https://jstor.org/stable/10.2307/saoa.crl.25235828|journal=|language=Urdu}}</ref> A diwan of [[Ghazal|ghazals]]
* Eleven masnavis, of which ''Sihar-ul-Bayan'' is the most famous.
* ''Tazkira-i-Shora-i-Urdu'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bailey|first=T. Grahame|date=1930-02-01|title=Taẕkira i Shu‘arā e Urdū. By Mīr Ḥasan. Edited by Muḥammad Habīr Ur Rahmān Sharvānī. 8 X 5, pp. 226. Aligarh.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/abs/tazkira-i-shuara-e-urdu-by-mir-hasan-edited-by-muhammad-habir-ur-rahman-sharvani-8-x-5-pp-226-aligarh/47AB53221C75BFF35008437623B70DFB|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|language=en|volume=5|issue=4|pages=928–928|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00090716|issn=1474-0699}}</ref> a [[tazkira]] of Urdu poets, written in Persian

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last=Faruqi|first=Mahmood|title=میر حسن اور خاندان کے دوسرے شعرا|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/meer-hasan-aur-khandan-ke-doosre-shora-mahmood-farooqi-ebooks|date=1953|publisher=Maktaba-i-Jadid|location=Lahore}}
* {{cite book|last1=Islam|first1=Khurshidul|last2=Russell|first2=Ralph|url=|title=Three Mughal Poets: Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan|date=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=|location=|authorlink2=Ralph Russell}}
* {{cite book|last=Nazmi|first=Mehdi|title=مثنوی سحر البیان نیا عکس نیا آئینہ|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/masnavi-sehr-ul-bayan-naya-aks-naya-aaina-mehdi-nazmi-ebooks|date=1986|publisher=Abu Talib Academy|location=New Delhi|language=ur}}

== Bibliography ==
*{{cite book |title=Mīr Ḥasan kī g̲h̲azal go'ī|author=Sāḥil Aḥmad|location=Allahabad|agency=Urdū Rā'iṭars Gilḍ|language=ur|year=1997}}
*{{cite book |title=Mir Hasan aur Khandan ke Dusre Shuara|author=Mahmud Faruqi|location=Lahore|language=ur|year=1953}}
*{{cite book |title=Mīr Ḥasan: ḥayāt aur adabī k̲h̲idmāt|author=Faz̤lulḥaq|language=ur|year=1973}}
*{{cite book |title=Mīr Ḥasan, 'ahd aur fann|author=Muḥammad Iḥsānulḥaq|location=Lāhaur|agency=Sang-i Mīl Pablīkeshanz|language=ur|year=1979}}
*{{cite book |title=Khurshid ul-Islam|author=Ralph Russel|location=Cambridge|language=en|year=1968}}
*{{cite book |title=Three Mughal poets; Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan|author=Ralph Russell|location=Cambridge|agency=Harvard University Press|language=en|year=1968}}
*{{cite book |title=Mas̲navī siḥr al-bayān, Ek tahz̲ībī mut̤āla'ah|author=Raz̤iyah Sult̤ānah|agency=Kitāb Bhavan|language=ur|year=1964}}

== References ==
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[[Category:1786 deaths]]
[[Category:Urdu-language poets]]
[[Category:Poets from Delhi]]
[[Category:Mughal Empire poets]]
[[Category:Urdu-language poets from India]]

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