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Momin Khan Momin

مؤمن خان مؤمن

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Delhi

Urdu poet and hakim (Unani physician) of late Mughal Delhi (1800–1852). Born in Delhi to a family of Kashmiri origin that practised medicine, he trained as a hakim before poetry took over his life. A less famous contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq, he left a divan and six masnavis; legend has Ghalib offering his whole divan in exchange for a single verse of Momin's.

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Roles
Poet · Physician
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata
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Life in time

1750177518001825185018751900
The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Ahmad Akansus (Moroccan historian, 1797–1877) · Ahmadullah Shah · Al-Bajuri, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad · Alymbek Datka · Azurda (Sadr al-Din Khan)

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Delhi

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    Unknown (unknown)

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    Born in
    Delhi
    Died in
    Delhi
    Taught
    Mustafa Khan Shefta

    People and things also explored

    Mirza Ghalib· Mustafa Khan Shefta· Delhi· Coronation of Aurangzeb at Delhi· Founding of Shahjahanabad· Humayun returns to Delhi, 962 AH· Ibn Battuta named envoy to China· Completion of the Jama Masjid of Delhi

    Sources

    • Momin Khan Momin — English Wikipedia
    • Momin Khan Momin — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Momin Khan Momin — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Momin Khan Momin — Wikidata Q3635814
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    islam.museum contributors. “Momin Khan Momin”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/momin-khan-momin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.

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    Mirza Ghalib

    The pre-eminent Urdu and Persian poet of the late Mughal age (1797–1869). Born in Agra, he settled in Delhi as a boy and lived most of his life in straitened circumstances, contesting his family pension. He wrote divans in both Urdu and Persian, served Bahadur Shah Zafar as court poet and poetry tutor, and his ghazals are regarded as the summit of Urdu poetry.