Bilgrāmī, ʿAbd al-Jalīl (1071–1138/1660–1725), Persian-speaking poet from the Indian subcontinent. His father Mīr Sayyid Aḥmad (d. 1096/1685) was a prominent figure and a renowned ascetic of the period (Khushgū, 3/155). ʿAbd al-Jalīl was born in Bilgrām (now in Uttar Pradesh), a dependency of Shāhābād in Qanūj (Khushgū, 3/155; Ṣiddīq Khān Ḥasan, 238; Raḥmān ʿAlī, 108). He was a descendant of Wāsiṭī sayyids (descendants of the Prophet Muḥammad) who migrated to Bilgrām in around 614/1217 (Rieu, 3/963).

Bilgrāmī began his primary education i…