Ḥasan, Mīr Ghulām - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bruce, Gregory Maxwell
Leiden
Brill
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Mīr Ghulām Ḥasan , known by his pen name Ḥasan (Mīr Ḥasan, d. 1200/1786) was a biographer, critic, and poet remembered chiefly for a romantic Urdu mathnavī later named Siḥr al-bayān ("The enchantment of speech"). 1. Life The details of Mīr Ḥasan's life come to us mainly from his own writings ( Gulzār-i Iram and Tadhkira-yi shuʿarā ). Estimates of the year of his birth range from 1140/1727-8 to 1155/1742 (Qurayshī, Mīr Ḥasan , 179-89). He was born in the Sayyidwāŕa area of Delhi to