• any suggestions before 20th century • must be in Urdu, preferably translated into English • the writer’s ethnicity doesn’t matter
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A Long Way From Hyderabad
Muhammadi Begum
Ab-e Hayat: Shaping the Canon of Urdu Poetry
Mohammad Hussain Azad
The History Of Humayun (Humayun-Nama)
Gulbadan Begum
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Modern Library Classics)
Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur
Diwan e Ghalib / دیوان غالب
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi
Ziauddin Barni
گلزار ماہ لقا [Gulzar-e Mahlaqa]
Mah Laqa Bai
In the Bazaar of Love
Amir Khusrau
Tauba tun Nasuh / توبۃ النصوح
Deputy Nazir Ahmad
Hamzanama: The Adventures of Amir Hamza
Ghalib Lakhnavi
A Tale of Four Dervishes
Mir Amman
The Bride's Mirror
Selected Ghazals and Other Poems (Murty Classical Library of India)
Mir Taqi Mir
Hoshruba: The Land and the Tilism
Muhammad Husain Jah
Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Umrao Jan Ada
Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
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