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Momin
Khan of Delhi (1800-1851), who wrote as Momin, was a great
scholar in Persian and Arabic languages, and in medicine and astrology.
He also had the reputation of being a skilled chess-player. Though he
left Delhi several times, but always returned to it. Momin’s
poetry was marked by great flights of fancy and distinctive similes and
metaphors, but excessive Persianization and eroticism. He was rather vain
and held contemporaries like Zouk and Ghalib
in contempt. But he had a number of prominent pupils (like Taskin) and
was held in great esteem in his days. He died rather early, falling from
the roof of his house.
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