Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq

Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim Zauq (1789 – November 1854) was an Urdu poet and scholar of literature, poetry and religion. He wrote poetry under the pen name "Zauq", and was appointed poet laureate of the Mughal Court in Delhi at the age of just 19. Later he was given the title of Khaqani-e-Hind (The Khaqani of India) by the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar who was also his disciple in poetry.

It was no less than a miracle that Zauq, without having the proper treatment on account of the extreme poverty of his family, survived the attack of a disease like smallpox during his childhood.

Death Zauq died in 1854 at age 64,

Legacy Major portion of Zauq's poetical output got lost because of mutiny of 1857. Maulana Muhammad Husain Azad compiled a slim volume of his poetry with the help of his pupils like Hafiz, Veeran, Anwar and Zaheer that contains twelve hundred couplets of Ghazals and fifteen Eulogies. In Television Zauq is played by Shafi Inamdar in the Television series Mirza Ghalib Directed by Gulzar.