Saif Mahmood

Saif Mahmood, author of Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and her Greatest Poets is a leading name in the field of Urdu poetry and its cultural heritage. He works to showcase Urdu poetic traditions and emphasise poetry as a cultural document and the poet as an artist. An international lawyer by profession, Mahmood has been a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford working on the Mughal State’s treatment of Urdu poets of resistance.

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