Muḥammad Nuá¹£rat (died 1674), called Nuá¹£ratë ('victorious'), was a Deccani Urdu poet.
Nuá¹£ratë was born in the Carnatic region into an elite Muslim family of Brahmin origin. He lived as a Sufi dervish before moving to Bijapur. There he was made a mansabdar under Sultan ÿAlë II () of the ÿÃÂdil-ShÃÂhë dynasty. For his poem ÿAlë-nÃÂma (), he was named poet laureate (malik al-shuÿarÃÂþ). He died at an old age in 1674 or 1683.
Nuá¹£ratë wrote in the Deccani variety of Urdu and Persian. His poetry uses archaic language and a complex style. He was a prominent practitioner of the qaṣëda, ghazal and especially mathnawë forms. One of his earliest works, MiÿrÃÂj-nÃÂma, was written for Sultan Muḥammad ÿÃÂdil ShÃÂh ().
His most original work is the ÿAlë-nÃÂma, an epic celebration of ÿAlë II's wars against the Mughals and Marathas. It is the earliest panegyric of a ruler in Deccani. Nuá¹£ratë himself claimed to have invented a new poetic form with this work, which is "the only thing of its kind in Urdu". It is patterned on the Persian ShÃÂh-nÃÂma. Grahame Bailey calls it the greatest poem ever written at Bijapur.
Nuá¹£ratë's final poem, written in a similar vein, is Taþrëkh-i Sikandarë (also called the Taþrëkh-i Bahlol Khani), a celebration of Bahlol Khan's victory over Shivaji at the battle of Umrani in 1672. It was written for ÿAlë II's successor, Sikandar. Unlike the ÿAlënÃÂma, written at the height of Bijapur's power, it is "largely in a minor key". Other works of Nuá¹£ratë's include Gulshan-i ÿishq (1658), a collection of odes and the lyric collection Guldasta-yi ÿishq. Gulshan-i ÿishq is a highly conventional romance.