Mian Muhammad Bakhsh

Mīān Muhammad Bakhsh (Punjabi: میاں محمد بخش; c. 1830 – 1907) was a 19th-century Punjabi Sufi poet from Kashmir with roots in Gujrat, Punjab. He wrote 18 books during his lifetime of 77 years, especially remembered for his romantic epic poem, "Saiful Maluk" in which he turnt the traditional Hazarewal story of Prince Saiful-ul-Muluk into a poem. He also wrote the romantic tragedy, "Mirza Sahiban". Most of his work is in Punjabi and its dialect, Pothwari, with the exception of the book "Yari", written in Persian. A contemporary of Mast Tawakali and Khwaja Ghulam Farid, he penned resistance through poetry against the British rule over South Asia.

Bakhsh is revered throughout the Punjab and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He is regarded as the bridge to the modern Punjabi literature.