Mir Babbar Ali Anis was a renowned Urdu poet. He was born in Faizabad in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in the year 1803.

The famous marsia writers who inherited the tradition of Mir Anis among his successive generations are Mir Nawab Ali `Munis`, Dulaha Sahab `Uruj`, Mustafa Meerza urf Piyare Sahab `Rasheed`, Syed Muhammad Mirza Uns, Ali Nawab `Qadeem`, Syed Sajjad Hussain `Shadeed`, Syed Sajjad Hussain "Shadeed" Lucknavi.

The Majlis of 25 Rajab is historically important Majlis of Marsiya in Lucknow, in this majlis Mir Anis used to recite Marsiya. After Mir Anis well known marsiya writers of Mir Anis`s family as Dulaha Sahab `Uruj`, Mustafa Meerza urf Piyare Sahab `Rasheed`, Ali Nawab (Qadeem) and Syed Sajjad Hussain `Shadeed`, inherited the legacy of reciting marsiya.

Works of Mir Babbar Ali Anis
Mir Anis composed Salams, Elegies, Nauhas, and Quatrains. While the length of elegy initially had no more than forty or fifty stanzas, it now was beyond one hundred fifty or even longer than two hundred stanzas or bunds, as each unit of Marsia in Musaddas format is known.

Muharram and Mir Anis have become synonymous among Urdu lovers of the Indo-Pak subcontinent. Mir Anis has been a great teacher and inspiration for generations. Undoubtedly, Urdu derives much of its strength from the Marsias of Mir Anis. Mir Anis has drawn upon the vocabulary of Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Awadhi in such a good measure that he symbolizes the full spectrum of the cultural mosaic that Urdu has come to be.

Mir Babbar Ali Anis died in 1874.

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