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Persian Poets
The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere. 9th century * Bassame Kurd * Rudaki (رودکی) * Mansur Al-Hallaj (منصور حلاج) * Shahid Balkhi (ابوالحسن شهيدبن حسين جهودانکي بلخی) 10th century * Ferdowsi فردوسی * Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr ابوسعید ابوالخیر * Rudaki رودکی * Abu-Mansur Daqiqi ابومنصور دقیقی * Mansur Al-Hallaj منصور حلاج * Unsuri عنصری * Rabia Balkhi رابعه بلخی * Asjadi عسجدی * Farrukhi Sistani فرخی سیستانی * Kisai Marvazi کسائی مروزی * Abu-Shakur Balkhi ابوشکور بلخی * Ayyuqi عیوقی * Khwaja Abdullah Ansari خواجه عبدالله انصاری 11th century * Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanai
Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi ( fa, ), more commonly known as Sanai, was a Persian poet from Ghazni who lived his life in the Ghaznavid Empire which is now located in Afghanistan. He was born in 1080 and died between 1131 and 1141. Life Sanai was a Sunni Muslim.Edward G. Browne, ''A Literary History of Persia from the Earliest Times Until Firdawsh'', 543 pp., Adamant Media Corporation, 2002, , (see p.437) He was connected with the court of the Ghaznavid Bahram-shah who ruled 1117 – 1157. Works He wrote an enormous quantity of mystical verse, of which ''The Walled Garden of Truth'' or ''The Hadiqat al Haqiqa'' (حدیقه الحقیقه و شریعه الطریقه) is his master work and the first Persian mystical epic of Sufism. Dedicated to Bahram Shah, the work expresses the poet's ideas on God, love, philosophy and reason. For close to 900 years ''The Walled Garden of Truth'' has been consistently read as a classic and employed as a Sufi textboo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anvari
Anvari (1126–1189), full name Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud ( fa, اوحدالدین علی ابن محمد انوری) was a Persian poet. Anvarī was born in Abivard (now in Turkmenistan) and died in Balkh, Khorāsān (now in Afghanistan).''Encyclopædia Britannica''Online Edition 2007/ref> He studied science and literature at the collegiate institute in Toon (now Ferdows, Iran), becoming a famous astronomer as well as a poet. Anvari's poems were collected in a Deewan, and contains panegyrics, eulogies, satire, and others. His elegy "Tears of Khorasan", translated into English in 1789, is considered to be one of the most beautiful poems in Persian literature. ''The Cambridge History of Iran'' calls Anvari "one of the greatest figures in Persian literature". Despite their beauty, his poems often required much help with interpretation, as they were often complex and difficult to understand. Anvari's panegyric in honour of the Seljuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Am'aq
Shihabuddin Am'aq ( fa, عمعق) was a 12th-century Persian ( Tajik) poet. Originating from Bukhara, he was an imposing poet that carried the title ''amir al-shu'ara'' ("Amir of poets") in the Khaqanid courts. An excellent panegyrist and composer of elegies, he was praised by Anvari. His mathnavi no longer exists, but it is said to have been written on the story of Yusof and Zoleikha (Joseph and Potiphar's wife). It is said that he lived a long life of over 100 years and died in 1148 CE. See also *List of Persian poets and authors *Persian literature Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ... References * Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K Persian-language poets 12th-century Persian-language poets 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adib Sabir
Shihabuddin Sharaful-udaba Sabir (Persian: شهاب‌الدین شرف‌الادبا صابر) known as Adib Sabir (ادیب صابر), was a 12th-century Persian poet. Originating from Termedh, he was employed in the court of Sultan Sanjar. He is said to have also been used by the Sultan as a spy against the Sultan's enemies, who eventually drowned him in the Oxus in 1143 AD. His Persian poetry writings are fluent and refined in style. See also *List of Persian poets and authors *Persian literature Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ... * Persian poetry References Sources * Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K 1143 deaths 12th-century Persian-language poets 12th-century writers Deaths by drownin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadi Tusi
Abu Nasr Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi ( fa, ابونصر علی بن احمد اسدی طوسی; – 1073) was a Persian poet, linguist and author. He was born at the beginning of the 11th century in Tus, Iran, in the province of Khorasan, and died in the late 1080s in Tabriz. Asadi Tusi is considered an important Persian poet of the Iranian national epics. His best-known work is ''Garshaspnameh'', written in the style of the ''Shahnameh''. Life Little is known about Asadi's life. Most of the Khorasan province was under violent attack by Turkish groups; many intellectuals fled, and those who remained generally lived in seclusion. Asadi spent his first twenty years in Ṭūs. From about 1018 to 1038 AD, he was a poet at the court of the Daylamite Abū Naṣr Jastān. Here, in 1055–56, Asadi copied Abū Manṣūr Mowaffaq Heravī's ''Ketāb al-abnīa al-adwīa''. He later went to Nakhjavan and completed his seminal work, the ''Garshāsp-nama'' (dedicated to Abu Dolaf, ruler of Nakh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qatran Tabrizi
Qatran Tabrizi ( fa, قطران تبریزی; 1009–1014 – after 1088) was a Persian writer, who is considered to have been one of the leading poets in 11th-century Iran. A native of the northwestern region of Azarbaijan, he spent all of his life there as well as in the neighbouring region of Transcaucasia, mainly serving as a court poet under the local dynasties of the Rawadids and Shaddadids. Background Qatran was born between 1009 and 1014 in Shadiabad, near the city of Tabriz in the northwestern region of Azarbaijan. Shadiabad is mentioned as his hometown in one of his verses, which dismisses other accounts, which calls him by the ''nisbas'' of Tirmidhi, Jabali, Jili, Urmawi, Ajali. According to the 15th-century Timurid-era biographer Dawlatshah Samarqandi, the name of Qatran's father was Mansur, but this is not supported by earlier sources. Qatran is given the epithet of "Adudi" in several sources, which has been suggested to be a corruption of Azdi, the name of an Arab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uthman Mukhtari
Abū ‘Umar ‘Uthmān b. ‘Umar Mukhtārī Ghaznavī (born c. 467/1074-75, died 513×15/1118×21) was a Persian poet of the Ghaznavids, an empire originating from Ghazna located in Afghanistan. He had patrons at the courts of the Qarakhānids, the Seljūqs of Kirman, and the Ismaili ruler of Tabas. In the assessment of A. A. Seyed-Gohrab, in Persian literary history, he is known for his detailed and extensive poetic descriptions ('' vaṣf'') and his interest in literary riddles. His ability lies first of all in the minute description of courtly events such as royal banquets, hunting grounds, battlefields, and Islamic and pre-Islamic Persian festivals. Originating from Ghazna, he is thought to have written the ''Shahryar-nama'', which describes the struggles of Muslims against Indian heathens during the Ghaznavid era. The epic was composed in 3 years. Parts of it remain in the British Museum. While at Tabas in 500-508 (1105–13), he composed the '' Hunar-nāma'', dedicating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masud Sa'd Salman
Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān ( fa, مسعود سعد سلمان) was an 11th-century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire who is known as the prisoner poet. He lived from ca. 1046 to 1121. Early life He was born in 1046 in Lahore to wealthy parents from Hamadan, present-day Iran. His father Sa'd bin Salman accompanied the Ghaznian Prince Majdûd under the Sultan Mahmûd's orders to garrison Lahore. Mas'ud was born there and he was highly learned in astrology, hippology, calligraphy, literature and also in Arabic and Indian languages. His first work of note was as a panegyrist in the retinue of Sultan Ibrâhîm's son Sayf al-Dawla Mahmûd, whose appointment to governor-general of India in 1076 Mas'ud marked with a qasideh. In prison In 1085, he was imprisoned, in the fortress of Nay, for his complicity with Sultan Ibrâhîm's son, Mahmud.C.E. Bosworth, ''The Later Ghaznavids'', (Columbia University Press, 1977), 66. He was released by the sultan's successor Mas‘ûd III in 1096, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azraqi
Abul-Mahāsin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi ( fa, ابوالمحاسن ابو بكر زين الدين ازرقی) was an 11th-century poet who lived in Iran. Firdowsi is said to have taken refuge in Azraqi's father's house (''Ismail Varrāq'', "the book seller") on his flight from Ghazneh to Tus. Born in Herat, Azraqi was an eminent panegyrist. He turned ''Alfiyya va Shalfiyya'' into poetry, and is said to have presented himself to ''Shamsudowleh Abolfavāris Tughan-Shah'', son of Alp Arslan. He also wrote a version of the ''Sandbad nama''. Except for his qasidahs, none of the aforementioned works remain. He died in 1072 CE. References * Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-KAZRAQĪ HERAVĪin the Encyclopedia Iranica See also *List of Persian poets and authors *Persian literature Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu-al-Faraj Runi
Abul Faraj Runi ( fa, ابوالفرج رونی), born in Lahore, was an 11th-century Persian court poet who wrote ''Mathnawi''. His family came from Nishapur in Khorasan. He was a contemporary of Masud Sa'ad Salman. He died at the turn of the 11th-12th century. References used * E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. * Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K See also *List of Persian poets and authors The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian writers and poets from Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. This list is alphabetized by chronological or ... 11th-century Persian-language poets 12th-century Persian-language poets Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Poets from Nishapur Poets from the Seljuk Empire 11th-century Iranian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baba Tahir
Baba Tahir or Baba Taher Oryan Hamadani ( fa, باباطاهر عریان همدانی) was an 11th-century Persian dervish poet from Hamadan, Iran who lived during the reign of Tugril of the Seljuk dynasty over Iran. This is almost all that is known of him as he lived a mysterious lifestyle. Although prefix "Baba" (roughly meaning 'The Wise' or 'The Respected') has been thought as part of his name in all known sources, his nickname "Oryan" ( meaning 'The Naked' ) did not appear until about 17th-century. The nickname was probably attributed to him because he seemed to lead a very spiritual and stoic lifestyle and thus was figuratively not clothed with worldly and material needs. His poetry is written in the Hamadani dialect of the Persian language. According to L. P. Elwell-Sutton he probably wrote in the Hamadani dialect, adding: "Most traditional sources call it loosely Luri, while the name commonly applied from an early date to verses of this kind, Fahlaviyat, presumably impli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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