WRITER

Mir Taqi Mir

1723 - 1810

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Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer), was an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. His father's name was Meer Muttaqi. After his father's death, his step-Brothers took control over his property. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mir Taqi Mir has received more than 795,116 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mir Taqi Mir is the 1,807th most popular writer (up from 2,283rd in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from India (up from 268th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Indian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Selected Ghazals and Other Poems
Poetry
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir is widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in the Urdu language. Selected Ghazals and Other Poems offers a comprehensive collection of ghazals and masnavis. The Urdu text, presented here in the Nastaliq script, accompanies new translations of Mir's poems, some appearing in English for the first time.
Remembrances
History
Remembrances, by acclaimed poet Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir, is a remarkable example of Indo-Persian autobiography, offering a vivid picture of political events and intrigues from 1760 to 1789. The Persian text in the Naskh script, including a series of jokes and anecdotes printed here for the first time, accompanies a newly revised English translation.
Intikhab kalam Mir Taqi Mir
Urdu poetry, Poetry, Urdu
Intikhāb-i Mīr
Poems
With an editorial introduction.
Z̲ikr-i Mīr
Biography, Urdu Poets, Urdu Authors
Autobiography of Mīr Taqī Mīr, d. 1810, Urdu poet.
Faiz̤-i Mīr
Sufis, Biography
Short biographies of Sufis.
Intikhab kalam Mir Taqi Mir
Urdu poetry, Poetry, Urdu
Khulāṣat al-ashʻār va zubdat al-afkār
Persian poetry, Persian Poets, Biography
Persian poetry- Collections ; Poets, Persian- Biography.
Poems
With an editorial introduction.
Khulāṣat al-ashʻār va zubdat al-afkār
Persian poetry, Persian Poets, Biography
Persian poetry- Collections ; Poets, Persian- Biography.
Z̲ikr-i Mīr
Biography, Urdu Poets, Urdu Authors
Autobiography of Mīr Taqī Mīr, d. 1810, Urdu poet.
Faiz̤-i Mīr
Sufis, Biography
Short biographies of Sufis.
Intikhāb-i Mīr

Page views of Mir Taqi Mirs by language

Over the past year Mir Taqi Mir has had the most page views in the with 79,161 views, followed by Urdu (48,880), and Hindi (13,307). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (105.93%), Mirandese (97.53%), and Simple English (95.17%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 1,807 out of 7,302Before him are Elvira Madigan, Albert Gleizes, Sanai, Bartolomeo Platina, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Philemon. After him are Alberto Manguel, Petros Markaris, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Theophylact of Ohrid, Martin of Opava, and Josep Pla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 15Before him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. After him are Tobias Mayer, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Antoine Louis, Pehr Osbeck, and William Blackstone. Among people deceased in 1810, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 13Before him are Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Philipp Otto Runge, Andreas Hofer, Chevalier d'Éon, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, and Andrianampoinimerina. After him are Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Jacques-François Menou, Alejandro Malaspina, and József Alvinczi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 228 out of 1,861Before him are Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Rajaraja I (947), Amrapali (-450), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), and Homi J. Bhabha (1909). After him are Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905), Raja Ravi Varma (1848), Dignāga (480), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Shah Alam II (1728), and Jahandar Shah (1661).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 39Before him are Andal (800), Kuvempu (1904), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Anna Leonowens (1831), and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876). After him are Surdas (1478), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), D. R. Bendre (1896), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), Shakuntala Devi (1929), and Rahul Sankrityayan (1893).