Bīdil, Abū al-Maʿānī ʿAbd al-Qādir b. ʿAbd al-Ḵāliq Dihlawī (Mīrzā ; 1644-1720)

Mawlana Abul-Ma'ani Mirza Abdul-Qadir Bedil, also known as Bidel Dehlavi, was a famous Persian poet and Sufi born in Azimabad (present day Patna, India); to a family of Chaghatay Turkic descent. According to some other sources, he was born in Khwaja Rawash, an area of Kabul province in today's Afghanistan. He mostly wrote Ghazal and Rubayee (quatrain) in Persian and is the author of 16 books of poetry (contain nearly 147,000 verses and include several masnavi). He is considered as one of the prominent poets of Indian School of Poetry in Persian literature, and owns his unique Style in it. Both Mirza Ghalib and Iqbal-e Lahori were influenced by him. His books include Telesm-e Hairat, Toor e Ma'refat, Chahar Unsur and Ruqa'at.