This article examines the career and writings of the minor poet ʿAbd al-Jalil Bilgrami (1660-1725) in order to explore the relation between the practice of courtly poetry and the work of politics in the Late Mughal empire. Tracing the transformations in ʿAbd al-Jalil’s writings over the first decades of the eighteenth century, this article demonstrates that the poet’s practice, driven as much by literary concerns as by material needs, responded to and was implicated within the politics of the Mughal court. His life thus illuminates both the opportunities and dangers opened by the practice of poetry in an era of the rapid and unprecedented dispersal of political authority in the empire.

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礼貌诗歌的应许与危险：莫卧儿帝国晚期的米尔·阿卜杜·贾里勒·比尔格拉米（MirʿAbd al-Jalil Bilgrami）（1660-1725）案

本文考察了未成年诗人阿卜杜勒·贾利勒·比尔格拉米（Abd al-Jalil Bilgrami）（1660-1725）的职业和著作，以期探索莫卧儿帝国后期宫廷诗歌的创作与政治工作之间的关系。追溯十八世纪头几十年decades阿卜杜勒·贾利勒（Abd al-Jalil）著作中的转变，这篇文章表明，这位诗人的实践既受到文学关注又受到物质需求的驱动，对莫卧儿朝廷的政治做出了回应，并与之相关。因此，在帝国政治权力空前迅速散布的时代，他的生活既彰显了诗歌实践带来的机遇与危险。