Bīdil (Bedil), Abū al-Maʿānī Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Qādir Bīdil Dihlawī (1054–4 Ṣafar 1133/1644–5 December 1720), the foremost poet of the Indian style of Persian poetry and a Sufi, who greatly influenced later authors and poets, particularly in Central Asia and Afghanistan. He was born in ʿAẓīmābād in India (present-day Patna) (Bīdil, 4/64; Khushgū, 104; Āzād, Sarw-i āzād, 148; idem, Khazāna-yi ʿāmira, 152; Khalīl, 24; Pidrām, 38). There is some lack of cl…