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Mawlānā Abul-Maānī Mīrzā Abdul-Qādir Bēdil (Persian: مولانا ابوالمعانی میرزا عبدالقادر بیدل، بیدل), also known as Bidel Dehlavī (بیدل دهلوی 1642-1720), was an Indian Sufi, and the greatest Indo-Persian poet, next to Amir
Khusrau, who lived most of his life during the reign of Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor. He was the foremost representative of the later phase of the "Indian style" (sabk-e hendí) of Persian poetry and the most difficult and challenging poet of that school. Even though he is known as a master of Persian poetry, Bīdel was actually of Turkic/ Mongol Central Asian descent, his family originally
belonging to the Arlās tribe of the Chaghatay, regarded by some as part of the Mongol or Turkic people. He was
born in Azīmābād, present-day Patna in India.
Bidel mostly wrote Ghazal and Rubayee (quatrain) in Persian, the language of the Royal Court, which he had learned since childhood. He is the author of 16 books of
poetry, which contain nearly 147,000 verses and include several masnavi) in that language. 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 lqbal-i Lahori were influenced by him.
His books include Tilism-i Hairat (طلسم حیرت ), Tur-e Ma'rifat (طور معرفت), Chahār Unsur ( چهار عنصر) and Ruqa'at ( رقعات).
Bīdel had considerably more tolerant views than his poetic contemporaries. He preferred
freethought to accepting the established beliefs of his time.