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Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir
ISBN # : 9780195662580
Publisher: Oxford
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Zikr-i-Mir is a rare autobiographical narrative, originally in Persian, written by Muhammad Taqui Mir, considered by many to be the pre-eminent ghazal poet in Urdu.



'autobiography is a poorly developed genre in Islamic literature ... Mir's autobiography, therefore, has a special interest as a rare example from the eighteenth century.' Zikr-i Mir, The Islamic World, March 31, 2000.

`We are deeply grateful to C.M. Naim for enabling us to savour something of the human world of Muslim northern India, before all became enveloped by the British and their utilitarian purposes.' Zikr-i Mir, The Islamic World, March 31, 2000.

`enables us to savour what it was to be human in the cultivated Muslim world of eighteenth-century nothern India.' Zikr-i Mir, The Islamic World, March 31, 2000.

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