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|name=Shaikh Zahuruddin Hatim<br />
|pseudonym=Hatim<br />
|birth_date=1699<br />
|birth_place=Shahjahanabad, [[Mughal India]]<br />
|death_date=1781 or 1792<br />
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'''Shaikh Zahuruddin Hatim''' also known by the [[pen name]]s of '''Shah Hatim''' or '''Hatim''' was an [[Urdu]] poet and an early exponent of the [[Delhi]] school of Urdu poetry. He lived in Delhi during the reign of [[Muhammad Shah]].<br />
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==Career==<br />
Hatim was born to Fatuddin in Delhi in 1699. He was a soldier by profession and lived during the reign of the Mughal Emperor [[Muhammad Shah]].{{sfn|Saksena|1927|p=48}} He started writing poetry under the influence of [[Wali Mohammed Wali]] after his ''[[Diwan (poetry)|Diwan]]'' came to Delhi in 1722. He actively took part in the literary assemblies or the mushairas in Delhi convened by [[Mir Taqi Mir|Mir]], Dard and other poets.{{sfn|Saksena|1927|p=48}}<br />
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His major poetic work is collected in two volumes, ''Diwan'' and ''Diwanzada''. ''Diwanzada'' is smaller selection of his first volume of ''Diwan''.{{sfn|Bailey|1932|p=45}} He also took to teaching poetry. The preface of his ''Diwanzada'' contained the name of 45 of his pupils who studied under him. Notable among his pupils were [[Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda|Sauda]] and Rangin.{{sfn|Saksena|1927|p=48}}<br />
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He died in 1781 according to one account. Another account mentions his death to be in 1792.{{sfn|Sadiq|1995|p=100}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Cited sources==<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Sadiq|first=Muhammad|url=http://archive.org/details/historyofurdulit00sad_eg9|title=A history of Urdu literature|date=1995|publisher=Delhi; Oxford : Oxford University Press|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-19-563145-6}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Bailey|first=Thomas Grahame|url=https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfUrduLiterature/page/n25/mode/2up|title=A History of Urdu Literature|date=1932|publisher=Association Press (Y.M.C.A.)|isbn=978-81-7000-080-8|language=en}}<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Saksena|first=Ram Babu|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38539/page/n163/mode/1up|title=A History of Urdu Literature|date=1927|publisher=Ram Narain Lal|isbn=978-81-7435-161-6|language=en}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.rekhta.org/poets/shaikh-zahuruddin-hatim/profile?_ga=2.98337116.234065311.1633615906-895429247.1633615906 Works of Shaikh Zahuruddin Hatim at Rekhta]<br />
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