A shayar is a poet who composes sher in Urdu, Hindi, or Persian.Commonly, a shayar is someone who writes ghazals, nazms using the Urdu language.. History. Amir Khusro (1253–1325) is considered to be one of the foremost shayars of the world; he wrote in Persian. Mirza Ghalib is considered the ultimate authority on Urdu poetry. He lived in Delhi and died in 1869.Urdu poetry (Urdu اُردُو شاعرى Urdū S̱ẖāʿirī) is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different forms.Today, it is an important part of the cultures of South Asia.According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu which are Mir Taqi Mir, Mirza Ghalib, Mir Anees, Allama Iqbal and Josh Malihabadi.The language of Urdu reached its pinnacle under the British Raj ...
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