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Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

writers and poets from Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. This list is alphabetized by chronological order. Although a few authors in this list do not have their ethnic origin, nevertheless they have enriched Persian culture and civilization by their remarkable contributions to the rich Persian literature. The modern Persian speaker comprehends the literature of the earliest Persian poets including founder of the Persian poetry and literature

Rudaki Rudaki (also spelled Rodaki; fa, رودکی; 858 – 940/41) was a Persian poet, singer and musician, who served as a court poet under the Samanids. He is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian. Said to have composed more than ...

(approximately 1150 years ago) all the way down to the works of modern Persian poets. Some names that lived during the turn of a century appear twice.

From the 7th to the 8th centuries

Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi ( fa, ابوالعباس مروزی) was an early Persian poet. Muhammad Aufi Sadīd ud-Dīn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad 'Aufī Bukhārī (1171-1242) ( fa, سدید الدین محمد عوفی), also known under the laqab Nour ud-D ...

9th century

(رودکی) *

Muhammad al-Bukhari Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

Persian Islamic Scholar, (810 - 870) *

Mansur Al-Hallaj Al-Hallaj ( ar, ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج, Abū 'l-Muġīth Al-Ḥusayn bin Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj) or Mansour Hallaj ( fa, منصور حلاج, Mansūr-e Hallāj) ( 26 March 922) (Islamic calendar, Hijri ...

(منصور حلاج) *

Shahid Balkhi Shahid Balkhi (or Shuhayd; fa, شهید بلخی, Shahīd-e Balkhī; died 927) was a scribe, philosopher and poet active in the Chaghaniyan and Samanid courts. He is notable being for one of the first composers of New Persian poetry. Life The mo ...

(ابوالحسن شهيدبن حسين جهودانکي بلخی) * Abu Hafs Sughdi

10th century

Ferdowsi Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi ( fa, ; 940 – 1019/1025 CE), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (), was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a sin ...

فردوسی * Abusaeid Abolkheir ابوسعید ابوالخیر *

رودکی *

Abu Mansur Daqiqi Abu Mansur Daqiqi ( fa, ابومنصور دقیقی), better simply known as Daqiqi (), was one of the most prominent Persian poets of the Samanid era. He was the first to undertake the creation of the national epic A national epic is an ...

ابومنصور دقیقی *

منصور حلاج *

Unsuri Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi ( fa, ابوالقاسم حسن عنصری بلخی; died 1039/1040) was a 10–11th century Persian poet. ‘Unṣurī is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poe ...

عنصری *

Rabi'a Balkhi Rabia Balkhi, also known as Rabia al-Quzdari (or Khuzdari) was a 10th-century writer who composed poetry in Persian and Arabic. She is the first known female poet to write in Persian. A non- mystic poet, her imagery was later transformed into t ...

رابعه بلخی * Asjadi عسجدی *

Farrukhi Sistani Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Julugh Farrukhi Sistani ( fa, ابوالحسن علی بن جولوغ فرخی سیستانی), better known as Farrukhi Sistani (; – 1040) was one of the most prominent Persian court poets in the history of Persian literatur ...

فرخی سیستانی *

Kisai Marvazi Kisa'i Marvazi ( fa, کسایی مروزی‎; 953–1002) was a 10th-century Persian poet.''J. T. P. de Bruijn'Kesāʾi Marvazi/ Encyclopædia Iranica, April 7, 2008 His full name was probably Abu’l-Hasan (or Abu Ishaq) Majd al-Din ʿAli ibn ...

کسائی مروزی *

Abu Shakur Balkhi Abu Shakur Balkhi ( fa, ابوشکور بلخی; born possibly in 912-13) was one of the most important Persian poets of the Samanid period. He was a contemporary of Rudaki, and wrote three '' masnavis'', the work ''Āfarin nama'' (written in 944) ...

ابوشکور بلخی *

Qabus Qabus ibn Wushmagir (full name: ''Abol-Hasan Qābūs ibn Wušmagīr ibn Ziyar Sams al-maʿālī'', ; (died 1012) (r. 977–981; 997–1012) was the Ziyarid ruler of Gurgan and Tabaristan in medieval Iran. His father was Vushmgir and his mother was ...

, Qabus ibn Wushmagir, poet (died 1012) ابوالحسن قابوس بن وشمگیر بن زیار, شمس المعالی *

Ayyuqi Ayyuqi ( fa, عیوقی) was a 10th-century Persian poet. A contemporary of Mahmud of Ghazni, he wrote the epic ''Varqa wa Golshāh'' () in 2,250 verses, story of the love between a youth named Varqa and a maiden, Golshah. According to the poe ...

عیوقی *

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Harawi al-Ansari or Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1088) ( fa, خواجه عبدالله انصاری) also known as ''Pir-i Herat'' () "Sage of Herat", was a Muslim Sufi saint who lived in the 11th century in Herat (m ...

خواجه عبدالله انصاری *

Li Shunxian Li Shunxian 李舜弦 (c. 900 – 926, Sichuan) was a Chinese poet celebrated for her beauty and poetic talent. She was a concubine of Wang Yan (Wang Zongyan), the Chinese Emperor of Former Shu. She was famous for being a Chinese woman of Persian ...

( 李舜弦) a concubine of the Chinese Emperor Wang Yan (

Wang Zongyan Wang Yan (王衍) (899–926), né Wang Zongyan (王宗衍), courtesy name Huayuan (化源), also known as Houzhu (後主, "later Lord"), later posthumously created the Duke of Shunzheng (順正公) by Later Tang, was the second and final emperor o ...

)

11th century

al-Biruni Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (973 – after 1050) commonly known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian in scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously the "founder of Indology", "Father of Co ...

(973–c. 1050) *

Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani ( fa, فخرالدين اسعد گرگانی), was an 11th-century Persian poet. He versified the story of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Arsacid (Parthian) period. The Iranian ...

* Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (d. 1037) *

Asad Gorgani Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani ( fa, فخرالدين اسعد گرگانی), was an 11th-century Persian poet. He versified the story of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Arsacid (Parthian) period. The Iranian s ...

Omar Khayyám Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam ( fa, عمر خیّام), was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, an ...

, poet (1048–1131) *

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 113 ...

, poet (1080–1131/1141)حکیم ابوالمجد مجدود ‌بن آدم سنایی غزنوی * Hujviri d1073 * Abdul Qadir Gilani *

Manuchihri Abu Najm Aḥmad ibn Qauṣ ibn Aḥmad Manūčihrī ( fa, ابونجم احمد ابن قوص ابن احمد منوچهری دامغانی), a.k.a. Manuchehri Dāmghānī (fl. 1031–1040), was an eleventh-century court poet in Persia and in the ...

* Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian *

Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi Zahir al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Zayd-i Bayhaqi ( fa, ظهیرالدین ابوالحسن علی بن زید بیهقی; c. 1097 – 1169) also known as Ibn Fondoq (ابن فندق) was an Iranian polymath and historian of Arab descent. He is the ...

Nasir Khusraw Abu Mo’in Hamid ad-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani or Nāsir Khusraw Qubādiyānī Balkhi ( fa, ناصر خسرو قبادیانی, Nasir Khusraw Qubadiani) also spelled as ''Nasir Khusrow'' and ''Naser Khosrow'' (1004 – after 1070 CE) w ...

, traveler, writer and poet * Baba Tahir Oryan * Rabi'ah Quzdari *

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 ...

* Keykavus Eskandar *

Nizam al-Mulk Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali Tusi (April 10, 1018 – October 14, 1092), better known by his honorific title of Nizam al-Mulk ( fa, , , Order of the Realm) was a Persian scholar, jurist, political philosopher and Vizier of the Seljuk Empire. Rising fro ...

, author of

Siyasatnama ''Siyāsatnāmeh'' ( Persian: سیاست نامه, "''Book of Politics''"), also known as ''Siyar al-mulûk'' (Arabic: سيرالملوك, i.e.: The Lives of Kings), is the most famous work by Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of Nizamiyyah schools in me ...

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 ...

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 fr ...

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, ...

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 li ...

Mughatil ibn Bakri Mughatil ibn Atieh Bakri (مقاتل بن عطیه بکری) was allegedly a Medieval authority of the Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad, and son in law of Nizam al-Mulk. He is known only by a treatise that he wrote, in which he recounts in detail a Sunni - S ...

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 ...

اسدی طوسی * Nizami نظامی گنجوی، نظامی * Imam Muhammad Ghazali * Abhari

12th century

* Suzani Samarqandi, شمس الدین محمد بن علی poet (d.1166) *

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. ...

ادیب صابر * Am'aq عمعق بخارائی * Anvari انوری ابیوردی *

Farid al-Din Attar Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; fa, ابو حامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn () and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (, Attar means apothecary), was a PersianRitter, H. ( ...

, poet (about 1130-about 1220) فریدالدین عطار نیشاپوری * Nizami, poet (about 1140-about 1203) نظامی * Sheikh Ruzbehan شیخ روزبهان * Abdul Qadir Gilani عبدالقادر گیلانی *

Khaqani Shirvani Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān, commonly known as Khāqānī ( fa, خاقانی, , – 1199), was a major Persian poet and prose-writer. He was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as ...

خاقانی شروانی *

Sanaayi Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi ( fa, ), more commonly known as Sanai, was a Persians, 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 be ...

سنایی *

Sheikh Ahmad Jami Ahmad Ibn Abolhasan Jāmi-e Nāmaghi-e Torshizi ( fa, احمد ابن ابوالحسن جامی نامقی ترشیزی) (born Namagh (now Kashmar), Persia, 1048 – died Torbat-e Jam, 1141) better known as Sheikh Ahhmad-e Jami or Sheikh Ahmad ...

Muhammad Aufi Sadīd ud-Dīn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad 'Aufī Bukhārī (1171-1242) ( fa, سدید الدین محمد عوفی), also known under the laqab Nour ud-Dīn, was a Persian historian, philologist, and author. Biography Born in Bukhara, Aufi claimed des ...

Falaki Shirvani Falaki Shirvani ( fa, فلکی شروانی) was a Persian poet who served at the court of the Shirvanshah Manuchihr III (). A student of the poet Khaqani, Falaki played a leading role in the early development of the '' habsiyat'' (prison poetry) ...

Hassan Ghaznavi Ashrafuddin Abu Muhammad Hasan ibn Muhammad Husayni Ghaznavi ( fa, اشرف‌الدین ابو محمد حسن بن محمد حسینی غزنوی) known as Ashraf (اشرف) was a 12th-century Persian poet. A sayyid, he boasted of his lineage f ...

, poet * Sanai Ghaznavi, poet *

Mu'izzi Amīr ash-Shu‘arā’ Abū Abdullāh Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Malik Mu‘izzī ( fa, امیرمعزی, romanized as ''Mu'ezzi'') (born Nishapur 1048/9) was a Persian poet. He ranks as one of the great masters of the Persian panegyric form known ...

* Ibn Balkhi *

Mahsati Mahsati ( fa, مهستی, Māhsatī) was a medieval Persian female poet who was reportedly one of the first poets to compose '' ruba'iyat'' (quatrains) in her native language. Name Various interpretations of her name have been suggested based ...

, poet مهستی گنجوی *

Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat Rashid al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Jalil al-Umari ( fa, رشیدالدین محمد بن محمد بن عبد جلیل العمری; 1088/9 – 1182/3), better known by his nickname of Vatvat (; "the swallow"), was a Persian secretary, po ...

خولجه رشید الدین وطواط * Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi نظامی عروضی سمرقندی

13th century

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( fa, جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā ( fa, مولانا, lit= our master) and Mevlevî/Mawlawī ( fa, مولوی, lit= my ma ...

, poet (1207–1273) *

Sultan Walad Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad ( fa, بها الدین محمد ولد), more popularly known as Sultan Walad ( fa, سلطان ولد) was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet, Sufi, Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the foun ...

* Saadi, poet (1184–1283/1291?) *

Rashid-al-Din Hamadani Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb ( fa, رشیدالدین طبیب;‎ 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, fa, links=no, رشیدالدین فضل‌الله همدانی) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilk ...

, (1247–1318) *

Shams Tabrizi Shams-i Tabrīzī ( fa, شمس تبریزی) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian * * * * Shafi'ite poet, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is ref ...

* Sheikh Ruzbehan *

Zahed Gilani Taj Al-Din Ebrahim ibn Rushan Amir Al-Kurdi Al-Sanjani (or Sinjani; Persian:تاج الدين ابراهيم كردی سنجانی)‎ (1218 – 1301), titled Sheikh Zahed (or Zahid) Gilani, was an Iranian Grandmaster (murshid-i kamil) of the f ...

Khwaju Kermani Khwaju Kermani ( fa, خواجوی کرمانی; December 1290 – 1349) was a famous Persian poet and Sufi mystic from Iran. Life He was born in Kerman, Iran on 24 December 1290. His nickname Khwaju is a diminutive of the Persian word ''Khwaja ...

Mahmoud Shabestari Mahmoud Shabestari or Mahmūd Shabestarī ( fa, محمود شبستری‎; 1288–1340) is one of the most celebrated Persian Sufi poets of the 14th century. Life and work Shabistari was born in the town of Shabestar near Tabriz in 1288 (6 ...

Najmeddin Razi Abū Bakr 'Abdollāh b. Moḥammad b. Šahāvar b. Anūšervān al-Rāzī ( fa, نجم‌الدین رازی) commonly known by the ''laqab'', or sobriquet, of Najm al-Dīn Dāya, meaning "wetnurse" (573 AH/1177 – 654 AH/1256) was a 13th-cent ...

Qazi Beiza'i Qazi Naser al-Din Abdollah ibn Amr was a late 13th century judge and scholar of Iran. His famous work, ''Nezam al-Tawarikh'' contains an historical account of Fars Province. References used * E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four vol ...

Awhadi Maraghai Awhadi Maraghei (also spelled Auhadi; fa, اوحدی مراغه‌ای) (1274/75–1338) was a Persian Sufi poet primarily based in Azerbaijan during the rule of the Mongol Ilkhanate. He is usually surnamed "Maraghai", but also mentioned as ...

* Auhaduddin Kermani *

Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din Ghiyas may refer to: * Ghiyas, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200-1286), ruler of the Delhi Sultanate * Mirza Ghiyas Beg (17th century), important Mughal official See also

* Ghiyas (disambiguation), ...

Ata-Malik Juvayni Atâ-Malek Juvayni (1226–1283) ( fa, عطاملک جوینی), in full, Ala al-Din Ata-ullah (), was a Persian historian and an official of the Mongol state who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled '' Tarīkh-i Jahān-gushā'' (' ...

Nasreddin Nasreddin () or Nasreddin Hodja (other variants include: Mullah Nasreddin Hooja, Nasruddin Hodja, Mullah Nasruddin, Mullah Nasriddin, Khoja Nasriddin) (1208-1285) is a character in the folklore of the Muslim world from Arabia to Central Asi ...

Abu Tawwama Sharaf ad-Dīn Abū Tawʾamah ( ar, شرف ٱلدِّيْن أبُو تَوْأَمَة, bn, আবু তাওয়ামা) was an Islamic scholar, author and muhaddith based in the subcontinent. He played a large role in disseminating Isla ...

(died 1300)

14th century

Hafez Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "Hafiz", ...

, poet (born about 1310–1325) حافظ *

Amir Khusrow Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253–1325 AD), better known as Amīr Khusrau was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived under the Delhi Sultanate. He is an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian s ...

, امیر خسرو دهلوی *

Ubayd Zakani Khwajeh Nizam al-Din Ubayd Allah al-Zakani ( fa, خواجه نظام الدین عبید الله الزاکانی, Ḵwājeh Niẓām al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Zākānī; d. 1370), better known as Ubayd Zakani () was a Persian poet of the Mongol ...

عبید زاکانی *

Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani ( fa, میر سید علی همدانی; CE) was a Persian scholar, poet and a Sufi Muslim saint of the Kubrawiya order. He was born in Hamadan, Iran and preached Islam in Central Asia and Kashmir as he travelled to p ...

, میر سید علی ابن شہاب الدین ہمدانی - Islamic preacher traveller and poet (1314–1384) * Kamal Khujandi, poet, Sufism (1321–1401) *

Shahin Shirazi Shāhin-i Shirāzi ( fa, شاهین شیرازی, born in Shiraz in the Ilkhanate, now in Iran) was a Persian Jewish poet in the 14th century. Biography The details surrounding his biography are not clear. It is known that he worked during the re ...

Junayd Shirazi Mo'in al-Din Junayd ibn Mahmud ibn Muhammad Baghnovi Shirazi was a Sufi mystic and poet of Persia from the 14th century. He has two works, namely, a ''divan'', and ''Shadd al-Izar'' (written in 1389). The latter work contains the biographies of ove ...

Qasem-e Anvar Mu'in al-Din Ali Husayni Sarabi Tabrizi, commonly known by his ''laqab'' (honorific title) of Qasim-i Anvar ( fa, قاسم انوار; 1356 – 1433) was a Sufi mystic, poet, and a leading ''da'i'' (preacher) of the Safavid order. Biography Born ...

Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah Ghiyasuddin A'zam Shah ( bn, গিয়াসউদ্দীন আজম শাহ, fa, ) was the third Sultan of Bengal and the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. He was one of the most prominent medieval Bengali sultans. He established diplomatic relatio ...

, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with

* Ghiyas (disambiguation), ...

Shah Nimatullah Wali Shāh Nimatullāh or Shāh Ni'matullāh Wali, ( fa, شاه نعمت‌الله ولی ''Shāh Ne'matullāh-i Valī''), also spelled as ''Ne'matollah'' and ''Ni'matallah'' was the spiritual leader or Qutb of the Ni'matullah Order in Iran from th ...

Nur Qutb Alam Nūr Quṭb ʿĀlam ( ar, , bn, নূর কুতুব আলম) was a 14th-century Bengali Islamic scholar, author and poet. Based in the erstwhile Bengali capital Hazrat Pandua, he was the son and successor of Alaul Haq, a senior scholar ...

, Bengali religious scholar

15th century

Jami Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī ( fa, نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی; 7 November 1414 – 9 November 1492), also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as J ...

, poet (1414–1492) * Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, poet (1441–1501) *

Badriddin Hilali Badr al-Din Hilali ( fa, بدرالدین هلالی; –1529) was a Persians, Persian poet of Turkic peoples, Turkic origin. In Herat, he was a member of the literary circle of Sultan Husayn-e Bayqara and a close associate Alisher Navai. Works ...

, poet (1470–1529) * Imrani, poet (1454–1536) *

Fuzûlî Mahammad bin Suleyman ( Classical Azerbaijani: ), better known by his pen name Fuzuli ( az-Arab, فضولی ; ; * ota, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی ; * fa, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی . – 1556), was a 16th century ...

, poet (1494–1556) فضولی

16th century

* Muhammad Arshad, Bengali author * Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620) * Syed Pir Badshah, Bengali author * Vahshi Bafghi *

Ali Sher Bengali ʿAli Shīr al-Ḥanafī al-Bangālī ( ar, علي شير الحنفي البنغالي; d. 1570s), or simply Ali Sher Bengali ( bn, আলী শের বাঙ্গালী), was a 16th-century Bengali author, teacher and Sufi pir of the Shat ...

, religious author * Syed Shah Israil, Bengali poet *

Nahapet Kuchak Nahapet Kuchak (Kouchak) ( hy, Նահապետ Քուչակ) (died 1592) was an Armenian medieval poet, considered one of the first ''ashughs''. He is best known for his ''hairens'' (հայրեն), "four lines of couplets with a single coherent them ...

Teimuraz I of Kakheti Teimuraz I ( ka, თეიმურაზ I) (1589–1663), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a Georgian monarch who ruled, with intermissions, as King of Kakheti from 1605 to 1648 and also of Kartli from 1625 to 1633. The eldest son of David I a ...

(Tahmuras Khan) * Syed Rayhan ad-Din, Bengali poet

17th century

Shah Abdur Rahim Shah Abdur Rahim ( fa, ; 1644-1719) was an Islamic scholar and a writer who assisted in the compilation of Fatawa-e-Alamgiri, the voluminous code of Islamic law. He was the father of the Muslim philosopher Shah Waliullah Dehlawi. He became a dis ...

, Indian religious scholar *

Shah Waliullah Dehlawi Quṭb-ud-Dīn Aḥmad Walīullāh Ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm Ibn Wajīh-ud-Dīn Ibn Muʿaẓẓam Ibn Manṣūr Al-ʿUmarī Ad-Dehlawī ( ar, ‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic ...

, Indian religious leader *

(Tahmuras Khan) *

Saib Tabrizi Saib Tabrizi ( fa, صائب تبریزی, ''Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'', , ''Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿalī Ṣāʾib''), was a Persian poet and one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couple ...

, poet (1601/02-1677) * Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil (1642–1720) *

Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh (; 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708), born Gobind Das or Gobind Rai the tenth Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet and philosopher. When his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was executed by Aurangzeb, Guru Gobind Sing ...

(1666–1708) - Composed the famous Zafarnamah * Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi (1637–1702) * Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet ( 1546– 1620) *

Bhai Nand Lal Bhai Nand Lal ( fa, ; pa, ਭਾਈ ਨੰਦ ਲਾਲ; 1633–1713), also known by his pen name Goya ( fa, ; pa, ਗੋਯਾ), was a 17th-century Sikh poet in the Punjab region. He was born in Ghazni Afghanistan . His father Diwan Chajju ...

(1633–1713) * Gani Kashmiri (c. 1630 – c. 1669)

18th century

Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlavi (11 October 1746 – 5 June 1824; ) was Muhaddith (scholar of Hadith) and Mujadid Sufi and reformer from India. He was of the Naqshbandi Sufism, Sufi order which emerged from a tradition of violent backlash again ...

, Indian religious scholar (شاه عبد العزیز دهلوی) *

Ram Mohan Roy Raja Ram Mohan Roy ( bn, রামমোহন রায়; 22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform m ...

, Bengali Hindu reformer (رام موهن رای) * Hazin Lahiji (حزین لاهیجی) *

Izzatullah Bengali Izzatullah Bengali ( bn, ইজ্জতুল্লাহ বাঙ্গালী, fa, ) was an 18th-century Bengali author who wrote in the Persian language. Biography Izzatullah Bengali was from Murshidabad, the erstwhile capital of the Ben ...

(عزّت‌الله بنگالی), author *

Hatef Esfehani Seyyed Ahmad Hatef Esfahani ( fa, سید احمد هاتف اصفهانی; also Romanized as Hatif Isfahani and Hātif Isfahāni) was a famous Iranian poet of the 18th century. Life Hatef Esfahani was born in Isfahan Province, Isfahan (Esfahan), a ...

, poet (هاتف اصفهانی) *

Lutfullah Tabrizi Mīrzā Lutfullāh Khān Tabrīzī ( fa, , bn, মীর্জা লুৎফুল্লাহ তবরীজী), also known as Murshid Qulī Khān II, was an 18th-century administrator who served under the Nawabs of Bengal as the Naib Nazim ...

(لطف‌الله تبریزی) *

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Kala Mahal, Agra, Maratha Confederacy , death_date = , death_place = Gali Qasim Jaan, Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, Delhi, British India , occupation = Poet , language ...

, (مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب) *

I'tisam-ud-Din Mīrzā Sayyid Muḥammad Iʿtiṣām ad-Dīn ibn Tāj ad-Dīn ibn Shahāb ad-Dīn Panchnūrī or Itesham Uddin ( bn, মির্জা সৈয়দ মোহাম্মদ ইতেশামুদ্দীন পাঁচনূরী, fa, ...

, Bengali diplomat (اعتصام الدین) *

Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani Ghulām Muṣṭafā al-Burdwānī ( ar, غلام مصطفى البردواني), or alternatively Golam Mostafa Bardhamani ( bn, গোলাম মোস্তফা বর্ধমানী), was an 18th-century Islamic scholar and poet from Bu ...

, Bengali religious scholar and poet (غلام مصطفی بردوانی)

19th century

* Agha Ahmad Ali, Bengali poet (آغا احمد علي) * Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, Malek o-Sho'arā Bahār محمد تقی بهار(ملک الشعرا) *

Ali Akbar Dehkhoda Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhodā ( fa, علی‌اکبر دهخدا; 1879–March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian linguist and lexicographer. He was the author of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language p ...

, linguist and journalist علی اکبر دهخدا *

مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب *

Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi ( uz, Hamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy / Ҳамза Ҳакимзода Ниёзий) (, Kokand – March 18, 1929, Shohimardon) was an Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist. Niyazi, along with ...

, poet, author, scholar (1889–1929) *

Mirzadeh Eshghi Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani ( fa, سید محمدرضا کردستانی; December 11, 1893July 3, 1924) was an Iranian political writer and poet who used the pen name Mirzadeh Eshghi ( fa, میرزاده عشقی). Biography He was born in Ha ...

میرزاده عشقی *

Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat ( fa, رضاقلی خان هدایت; 8 June 1800 – 29 June 1871) was a Persian literary historian, administrator, and poet in 19th-century Qajar Iran. Biography Hedayat was born in Tehran on 8 June 1800 to a renowned fa ...

, poet and historian رضا قلی خان هدایت *

Iraj Mirza Prince Iraj Mirza ( fa, ایرج میرزا, literally ''Prince Iraj''; October 1874 – 14 March 1926) (titled Jalāl-ol-Mamālek, fa, جلال‌الممالک), son of prince Gholam-Hossein Mirza, was a famous Iranian poet. He was a modern p ...

ایرج میرزا *

Nassakh Khan Bahadur Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdul Ghafūr (1833-1889), better known by his pen name Nassakh ( ur, نساخ), was a British Indian officer, writer, literary critic and collector. He is best known for his magnum opus ''Sukhan-e-Shuara'' ( ur, ...

, Bengali poet (نساخ) *

Ebrahim Poordavood Ibrahim (also spelled Ibraheem) ( ar, إبراهيم, ) is the Arabic name of the prophet and patriarch Abraham and one of Allah's messengers in the Quran. It is a common first name and surname among Muslims and Arab Christians, a cognate of th ...

, ancient languages, Avesta ابراهیم پور داوود *

Aref Qazvini Abolqassem Aref Qazvini ( fa, ابوالقاسم‌ عارف قزوینی , 1882 – January 21, 1934) was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician. Biography He was born in Qazvin. He composed many poems about Iran and was called a ''national ...

عارف قزوینی *

Hassan Roshdieh Haji Mirza Hassan Tabrizi (میرزا حسن تبریزی; July 4, 1851, Tabriz – December 12, 1944, Qom), famously known as Hassan Roshdieh (حسن رشدیه), was an Iranian cleric, teacher, politician, and journalist. He introduced some mod ...

حسن رشدیه * Siyyid ‘Ali Muhammad Shirazi, founder of Babism, سيد علی ‌محمد شیرازی * Táhirih Qorrat al-'Ayn, Babi poet and theologian * Mirza Husayn 'Ali Nuri, founder of the Baha’i Faith, میرزا حسین‌علی نوری * Farrokhi Yazdi فرخی یزدی *

Khwaja Ahsanullah Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah KCIE (22 August 1846 – 16 December 1901) was the third Nawab of Dhaka. He also authored books in Persian and Urdu under the pen name of Shaheen. Ahsanullah is recognised for his philanthropic works in Ben ...

, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet (خواجه احسن‌الله) * Khwaja Muhammad Afzal, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet (خواجه محمد افضل) * Sheyda Gerashi, poet and Panegyrist شیدای گراشی * Qaani قاآنی *

Abd al-Hosayn Ayati Abd al Ḥosayn Ayati (1871—1953) was an Iranian convert to the Baháʼí Faith, who later converted back to Islam and wrote several polemic works against his former religion. He was known among Baháʼí circles as Avarih and is regarded as an ...

, poet, orator, author and historian عبدالحسین آیتی *

Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy ( ar, عبيد الله العبيدي السهروردي, bn, ওবায়দুল্লাহ আল ওবায়দী সোহরাওয়ার্দী; 1832 – 9 February 1885) was a Bengali Is ...

, Bengali poet (عبید الله العبیدی سهروردی)

20th century

* Ali Abdolrezaei (علی عبدالرضایی) *

Abdolali Dastgheib ʻAbd al-ʻAlī (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد العلي) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-ʻAlī'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It m ...

, Author (عبدالعلی دست غیب) * Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik-Persian poet *

Abdolkarim Soroush Abdolkarim Soroush ( ; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; fa, حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of phil ...

, philosopher * Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی) * Adib Boroumand, poet, politician, and lawyer (ادیب برومند) *

Ahmad Kamyabi Mask Ahmad Kamyabi Mask ( fa, احمد کامیابی مَسْک; born 1944) is a writer, translator, publisher and current Professor Emeritus of Modern Drama and Theater of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. He is a prominent schola ...

, writer and translator (احمد کامیابی مسک) *

Ahmad Kasravi Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi ( fa, سید احمد حکم‌آبادی تبریزی, Ahmad-e Hokmabadi-ye Tabrizi; 29 September 1890 – 11 March 1946), later known as Ahmad Kasravi ( fa, احمد کسروی, Ahmad-e Kasravi), was a pre-eminent Irani ...

(احمد کسروی) *

Ahmad NikTalab Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

(احمد نیک طلب), poet and linguistic *

Ahmad Raza Khan Ahmed Raza Khan, commonly known as Aala Hazrat, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, or Ahmed Rida Khan in Arabic, (14 June 1856 Common Era, CE or 10 Shawwal 1272 Islamic calendar, AH – 28 October 1921 Common Era, CE or 25 Safar 1340 Islamic calendar, ...

(احمد رضا خان) *

Ahmad Shamlou Ahmad Shamlou ( fa, احمد شاملو, ''Ahmad Šāmlū'' , also known under his pen name A. Bamdad ( fa, ا. بامداد)) (December 12, 1925 – July 23, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most infl ...

(احمد شاملو), poet Ahmad Shamlou

, linguist (علی اکبر دهخدا) * Ali Mohammad Afghani, writer (علی محمد افغانی) *

Ali Shariati Ali Shariati Mazinani ( fa, علی شریعتی مزینانی, 23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intell ...

, sociologist and theologian (علی شریعتی) *

, (عارف قزوینی) * Asad Gulzoda, poet * Aziz Motazedi, novelist (عزیز معتضدی) * Bahman Sholevar, writer and poet (بهمن شعله ور) *

Bahram Bayzai Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, fa, بهرام بیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies ...

, playwright (بهرام بیضایی) Bahram Bayzai

Bijan Elahi Bijan Elahi ( fa, بیژن الهی; ; 7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator. He was for most of his life known as a leading figure of a modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical a ...

, poet and translator *

Bilal Yousaf Bilal Yousaf (born 1928) is an Iranian writer. Biography Bilal Yousaf was born in a Zoroastrian family in Kerman. He went to Tehran to study at high school and pursued an education at Alborz High School. Yousaf earned a degree in natural resou ...

, writer, critic * Bozor Sobir, poet (بازارصابر) *

Bozorg Alavi Bozorg Alavi ( fa, بزرگ علوی) (February 2, 1904 – February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s andfollowing th ...

, (بزرگ علوی) writer *

Dariush Shayegan Dariush Shayegan ( fa, داریوش شایگان;‎ 24 January 1935 – 22 March 2018) was one of the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Near East. Life and career He was born in Tabriz from an Shia Iranian Azeri father ...

(داریوش شایگان) *

Ebrahim Nabavi Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi ( fa, سید ابراهیم نبوی; born 1958 in Astara, Iran) is a prolific Iranian satirist, writer, diarist, and researcher. He currently writes in the news website ''Gooya'' and the online newspaper ''Rooz'', and has a ...

, satirist (ابراهیم نبوی) * Ehsan Naraghi, Scholar, sociologist and writer * Esmail Khoi, Poet * Ezzat Goushegir *

Farzona Inoyat Hojieva ( tg, Иноят Ҳоҷиева), mostly known as Farzona ( tg, Фарзона) is a Tajik poet and writer. She won a lifetime achievement award. Life She was influenced by Forough Farrokhzad and other Persian poets, such as F ...

, poet (Фарзона/فرزانه) *

Farzaneh Aghaeipour Farzaneh Aghaeipour ( fa, فرزانه آقايي پور) is an Iranian playwright, author, and activist. She is a board member at the politically active Iranian Writers Association, which fights censorship and advocates freedom of expression. Her ...

(فرزانه آقایی‌پور) * Fereidoon Tavallali, poet (فریدون توللی) * Fereshteh Ahmadi, writer (فرشته احمدی) *

Fereydoun Moshiri Fereydoon Moshiri ( fa, فریدون مشیری; September 21, 1926 – October 24, 2000) was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem. A selection of his poems has bee ...

, poet (فريدون مشيری) *

Forough Farrokhzad Forugh Farrokhzad ( fa, فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast,* feminist author.Forugh Farrokhzad died at the age ...

, poet (فروغ فرخزاد) *

Ghazaleh Alizadeh Ghazaleh Alizadeh ( fa, غزاله علیزاده ); 15 February 1949 – 12 May 1996) was an Iranian poet and writer. Her mother was also a poet and writer. She married twice; she and her husband Bijan Elahi had a daughter called Salma. She als ...

, novelist (غزاله علیزاده) *

Gholam Hossein Saedi Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi MD ( fa, غلامحسین ساعدی, also transliterated as Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi and Ghulamhusayn Sa'idi; January 15, 1936 in Tabriz – November 23, 1985 in Paris) was a prolific Iranian writer. He published over forty ...

, writer *

Gholamhossein Mosahab Gholamhossein Mosaheb (October 13, 1910 – 1979) was an Iranian mathematician and logician whose works have been praised by other scholars such as Iraj Afshar and Najaf Daryabandari. Being fluent in Persian, Arabic, French and English, he studi ...

, encyclopedist (غلامحسین مصاحب) *

Gholamreza Rouhani Sayyed Gholamreza Rouhani alias Ajjeneh ( fa, غلامرضا روحانی, 17 May 1897 – 29 August 1985) was an Iranian humorous poet. Mohamad Ali Jamalzadeh called him "the chief of humorous poets". Early life Gholamreza Rouhani was born on 2 ...

, Poet (غلامرضا روحاني) *

Gulnazar Keldi Gulnazar Keldi ( tg, Гулназар Келдӣ; 20 September 1945 – 13 August 2020) was a Tajikistani poet from Dardar and editor of the publication '' Adabiyet va sanat'' (''Literature and Art''). Keldi wrote the lyrics of "Surudi Milli", t ...

, Tajik poet * Hamid Mosadegh(حمید مصدق) *

(حسن رشدیه) *

Heydar Yaghma Heydar Yaghma ( fa, حیدر یغما; 1926 – March 1986) was an Iranian poet. He was born in a village near Nishapur. Yaghma was a simple worker and was not literate. He began telling poems while in his thirties and learned how to read an ...

(حیدر یغما) * Homaira Nakhat Dastgirzada (حمیرا نکهت دستگیرزاده) *

Houshang Golshiri Houshang Golshiri ( fa, هوشنگ گلشیری; March 16, 1938''A Hundred Years of Storytelling in Iran'', Amir Abedini, p. 274. – June 5, 2000) was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to ...

(هوشنگ گلشیری) *

Houshang Moradi Kermani Houshang Moradi Kermani ( fa, هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی, also Romanized as "Hūshang Morādi-e Kermāni"; born 7 September 1944 at Sirch, a village in Kerman Province, Iran) is an Iranian writer best known for children's and young adul ...

(هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی) *

Hushang Ebtehaj Amir Hushang Ebtehaj ( fa, امیر هوشنگ ابتهاج; 25 February 1928 – 10 August 2022), also known by his pen name H. E. Sayeh ( fa, ه.ا.سایه, lit. ''Shadow''), was an Iranian poet of the 20th century, whose life and work span ...

(H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج) *

Ibrahim Ali Tashna Shāh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ʿAlī ( bn, শাহ মোহাম্মদ ইবরাহীম আলী; 1872 – 11 September 1931) was a Bengali Islamic scholar, poet and activist of the Khilafat Movement. He wrote poetry in the Bengali, Ur ...

, Bengali poet (تشنه) *

Ismail Alam Abū al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ʿAlī ( bn, আবুল আজীজ মোহাম্মদ ইসমাঈল আলী; 1868–1937) was a Bengali politician, teacher and activist of the Khilafat Movement. He wrote poetry in Urdu unde ...

, Bengali poet (اسماعیل عالم) *

, poet (ایرج میرزا) Iraj mirza picture

* Iraj Pezeshkzad, novelist (ایرج پزشکزاد) *

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad Seyyed Jalāl Āl-e-Ahmad ( fa, جلال آل‌احمد; December 2, 1923September 9, 1969) was a prominent Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher, socio-political critic, Sociology, sociologist, as well as an Anthropology ...

(جلال آل احمد) * Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار) *

Khalilullah Khalili Khalilullah Khalili (1907 – 1987; Pashto/ fa, خلیل‌الله خلیلی - ''Ḫalīlallāḥ Ḫalīlī''; alternative spellings: ''Khalilollah'', ''Khalil Ullah'') was Afghanistan's foremost 20th century poet as well as a noted historian, ...

(خلیل الله خلیلی) Poet and writer *

Kioumars Saberi Foumani Kioumars Saberi Foumani (August 29, 1941 – April 30, 2004) ( fa, کیومرث صابری فومنی) also known with his pen name Gol-Agha ( fa, گل آقا), was an Iranian satirist, writer, and teacher. Education and personal life Saberi was ...

(کیومرث صابری فومنی) *

Loiq Sher-Ali Layeq Sherali (1941–2000, in Tajiki/ Persian: Лоиқ Шералӣ/لائق شیرعلی, sometimes also Romanised as Laeq or Laiq or Loiq) was a Tajik poet, Iranologist and one of the most celebrated Persian literary figures of Tajikistan ...

(لائق شیرعلی), poet from Tajikistan *

Leila Kasra Leila Kasra ( fa, لیلا کسری) also known as Hedieh ( fa, هدیه), (March 27, 1939 – May 16, 1989) was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet and lyricist who has written lyrics for notable artists including Ebi, Dariush, Sattar, Vigen ...

, poet and lyricist *

Mahbod Seraji Mahbod Seraji Ph.D., (Persian:مهبد سراجی) is an Iranian-American author whose critically acclaimed novel, '' Rooftops of Tehran'', was published by NAL (an imprint of Penguin) in May 2009. Mahbod's short stories and articles can be foun ...

, Writer (مهبد سراجی) *

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ( fa, محمود دولت‌آبادی, ''Mahmud Dowlatâbâdi'') (born 1 August 1940 in Dowlatabad, Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and ...

(محمود دولت آبادی) * Mahmoud Melmasi - Azarm, poet (محمود ملماسي، آزرم) * Majid Adibzadeh, writer and scholar (مجید ادیب‌زاده) * Majid M. Naini writer, poet, translator, speaker (مجید نایینی) * Mana Aghaee, poet, author and translator (مانا آقایی) *

Manouchehr Atashi Manouchehr Atashi ( fa, منوچهر آتشی) (September 25, 1931 – November 20, 2005) was a Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority eth ...

(منوچهر آتشی) *

Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi (; fa, مرجان ساتراپی ; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel ''Persepolis'' a ...

, graphic novelist * Maryam Jafari Azarmani (مریم جعفری آذرمانی), poet, critic *

Massoud Behnoud Masoud Behnoud ( fa, مسعود بهنود; born in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, He began his career as a journalist in 1964. Since then he has worked as an investigating journalist for different newspapers. Behnoud lives in the United Ki ...

(مسعود بهنود), journalist *

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles, or Akhavān-Sāless ( fa, مهدی اخوان ثالث) (March 1, 1929 in Mashhad, Iran – August 26, 1990 in Tehran, Iran), pen name Mim. Omid ( fa, م. امید, meaning ''M. Hope'') was a prominent Iranian poet. He is ...

, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث) *

Mina Assadi Mina Assadi ( fa, مینا اسدی; born March 12, 1943) is an Iranian-born poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden. Author She is known for writing about controversial and provocative subjects, especiall ...

, poet, author, journalist and songwriter (مینا اسدی) * Mina Dastgheib, poet (مینا دست غیب) *

(میرزاده عشقی) *

Mirzo Tursunzoda Mirzo Tursunzoda ( tg, Мирзо Турсунзода, 2 May 1911 — 24 September 1977) was an important Tajikistani and Soviet poet and a prominent political figure, full member (academician) of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, a member of ...

, Tajik poet *

Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh Mohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani ( fa, محمدعلی جمالزاده اصفهانی; 13 January 1892 in Isfahan, Iran – 8 November 1997 in Geneva, Switzerland) was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known fo ...

, writer (محمد علی جمالزاده) *

Mohammad Hejazi Mohammad Hossein-Zadeh Hejazi ( fa, محمد حسین‌زاده حجازی, 20 January 1956 – 18 April 2021) was a military commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Early life and education Hejazi was born in Isfahan in 1956. He ...

, novelist and playwright * Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet (محمد حسين شهريار) *

Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh (also spelled Mohammad-Jafar Pooyandeh or Mohammad Jafar Poyandeh, fa, محمد جعفر پوینده) (7 June 1954 – 8 or 9 December 1998) was an Iranian writer, translator and activist. He was a member of the Iranian ...

(محمد جعفر پوینده) * Mohammad Mokhtari(محمد مختاری) * Mohammad Reza Ali Payam (Haloo), poet (محمدرضا عالی‌پیام) * Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet (محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی) *

Mohammad-Amin Riahi Mohammad-Amin Riahi ( fa, محمدامین ریاحی; 1 June 1923, Khoy – 15 May 2009, Tehran) was a prominent Iranian literary scholar of Persian literature, a historian, writer and statesman. Apart from being one of the authors of Dehkhoda D ...

, scholar and writer (محمدامین ریاحی) *

Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani ( fa, محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی, also Romanization, Romanized as "Mohammad–Reza Shafi'i Kadkani") (born 10 October 1939) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian writer, poet, critic, literary critic, editing, ed ...

, poet * Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار) * Monica Malek-Yonan, playwright *

Morteza Motahhari Morteza Motahhari ( fa, مرتضی مطهری, also Romanized as "Mortezā Motahharī"; 31 January 1919 – 1 May 1979) was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on th ...

, theologian (مرتضی مطهری) *

Muhammad Faizullah Muḥammad Fayḍ Allāh ibn Hidāyat ʿAlī al-Islāmābādī ( ar, محمد فيض الله بن هداية علي الإسلام آبادي, 1890–1976), popularly known as Mufti Faizullah ( bn, মুফতি ফয়জুল্লাহ) ...

, Bengali poet (محمد فيض الله) *

Muhammad Iqbal Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

, Pakistani poet (محمد اقبال) *

Nader Naderpour Nader Naderpour ( fa, نادر نادرپور; June 6, 1929 – February 18, 2000) was an Iranian poet. Among many Iranian poets who shaped up the New Persian Poetry or New Poetry (in Persian: ''She'r-e Now''), Ali Esfandiari aka Nima Yooshij, ...

, poet (نادر نادرپور) * Nima Yushij, poet (نیما یوشیج) * Nosrat Rahmani, poet (نصرت رحمانی) *

Parvin E'tesami Parvin E'tesami (1907 – April 5, 1941) also known as Rakhshandeh Etesami ( fa, رخشنده اعتصامی), and Parvin Etesami ( fa, پروین اعتصامی), was an Iranian 20th-century Persian poet. Life Parvin E'tesami was born in 1907 i ...

, poet (پروین اعتصامی) *

Rahi Mo'ayeri Rahi Mo'ayeri ( رهی معیری in Persian) (April 30, 1909 – November 15, 1968) né: Mohammad Hasan Mo'ayyeri (محمد حسن معیری in Persian), was an Iranian poet and musician. He was born into an artistic and musical family ...

, poet (رهی معیری) * Reza Baraheni, poet and critic (رضا براهنی) *

Reza Khoshnazar Reza Khoshbin-e Khoshnazar ( fa, رضا خوش‌بين خوش‌نظر) is an Iranian novelist who published his first novel, '' The Gods Laugh on Mondays'' in 1995 when he was in his twenties. The reaction was hot and some conservative papers accu ...

, novelist(رضا خوش‌بين خوش‌نظر) * Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian (رضا قلی‌خان هدایت) *

Reza Shirmarz Reza Shirmarz (Persian رضا شیرمرز), is a Greece-based published and awarded playwright, translator, researcher, theatre director and essayist with more than 30 books both written and translated by him, who has been collaborating with maj ...

, playwright, author, translator, poet and essayist (رضا شیرمرز) *

Roya Hakakian , birth_date = ca. 1966 , birth_place = Tehran, Iran , death_date = , death_place = , occupation = , language = Persian, English , nationality = , citizenship = American , education = , alma_mater = Brooklyn College, , period = , ...

, poet, writer, journalist (رویا حکاکیان) * Saboktakin Saloor, novelist *

Sadegh Choubak Sādeq Chubak ( fa, صادق چوبک, sometimes Sādegh Choubak; August 5, 1916 July 3, 1998), was an Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels. His short stories are characterized by their intricacy, economy of detail, and concentrati ...

, writer (صادق چوبک) *

Sadegh Hedayat Sadegh Hedayat ( fa, صادق هدایت ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer and translator. Best known for his novel '' The Blind Owl'', he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their care ...

(صادق هدایت) *

Sadriddin Ayni Sadriddin Ayni ( tg, Садриддин Айнӣ, fa, صدرالدين عينى, russian: Садриддин Саидмуродович Саидмуродов; 15 April 1878 – 15 July 1954) was a Tajik intellectual who wrote poetry, fiction, ...

(صدرالدين عيني), Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers of the country's history. *

Saeed Nafisi Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) ( fa, سعید نفیسی; June 8, 1895 – November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian. Nafisi was born in Tehran, where he conducted numerous research proje ...

, scholar, poet and writer * Sahar Delijani, novelist (سحر دلیجانی) *

Samad Behrangi Samad Behrangi ( fa, صمد بهرنگی; June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1968) was an Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particu ...

, writer (صمد بهرنگی) * Seyed Ali Salehi, poet *

Sems Kesmai Sems Kesmai (March 4, 1884 – November 3, 1961; ) was an Iranian poet known for her innovations in Persian language, Persian Modernism, modernist poetry. Biography Sems Kesmai was born 1884 in Yazd, Iran. Her father was an immigrant from Geor ...

, poet (شمس کسمایی) *

Shahrnush Parsipur Shahrnush Parsipur ( fa, شهرنوش پارسی‌پور; born 17 February 1946) is an Iranian-born writer and translator. Biography Shahrnush Parsipur was born on 17 February 1946; she was born and raised in Tehran. Parsipur received her B.A. ...

, novelist (شهرنوش پارسی‌پور) * Shams Langeroodi, poet (شمس لنگرودی) *

Shamim Hashimi Shamim Hashimi (Urdu/Persian language, Persian/Arabic: ; hi, शमीम हाशिमी ; born Syed Muhammad Shamimuddin on 14 August 1947) is an Urdu and Persian language, Persian poet. He is basically a poet of Ghazal. He has als ...

, poet and writer (شمیم ہاشمی) * Shapour Bonyad, poet (شاپور بنیاد) * Sheema Kalbasi, poet and translator (شیما کلباسی) *

Siavash Kasraie Siavash Kasrai ( fa, سیاوش کسرائی; February 25, 1927 – February 8, 1996) was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist. He is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s. An active supporter of ...

poet (سیاوش کسرایی) *

Simin Behbahani Simin Behbahani, her surname also appears as Bihbahani (née Siminbar Khalili; fa, سیمین بهبهانی; 20 July 1927 – 19 August 2014) was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet, lyricist and activist. She is known for her poems in a ghaz ...

, poet (سیمین بهبهانی) *

Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar ( fa, سیمین دانشور)‎ (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the ...

, writer (سیمین دانشور) * Sipandi Samarkandi, Tajik bilingual poet *

Sohrab Sepehri Sohrab Sepehri ( fa, سهراب سپهری; October 7, 1928 – April 21, 1980) was a notable Iranian poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the five most famous Iranian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, A ...

, poet and painter (سهراب سپهری) Sohrab Sepehri (1975)

Syed Waheed Ashraf Syed Waheed Ashraf is an Indian Sufi scholar and poet in Persian and Urdu. Ashraf received his B.A., M.A. and PhD (1965) degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. The title of his doctoral dissertation was ''A Critical Edition of Lataife Ashraf ...

, Poet, Sufi, Scholar, Critic * Syed Abid Ali Abid Poet and Author * Temur Zulfiqorov, Tajik poet (Темур Зулфиқоров) * Varand, poet (واراند) varand2

* Yadollah Royaee, poet (یدالله رویایی) *

Hossein Rajabian Hossein Rajabian ( fa, حسین رجبیان; born 5 July 1984) is an Iranian filmmaker, writer and photographer who was imprisoned as a political prisoner in 2015 on charges related to his filmmaking. He as an anti-censorship filmmaker and def ...

, Playwright (حسین رجبیان) *

Yasmina Reza Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays '' 'Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 bla ...

, poet (یاسمینا رضا) * Zana Pirzad novelist (زانا پیرزاد) *

Niloufar Talebi Niloufar Talebi ( fa, نیلوفر طالبی) is an author, literary translator, librettist, multidisciplinary artist, and producer. She was born in London to Iranian parents. Her work has been presented by, and/or performed at Carnegie Hall, C ...

(نیلوفر طالبی) *

Sholeh Wolpé Sholeh Wolpé ( fa, شعله ولپی) is an American poet, playwright, and literary translator. She was born in Iran, and lived in Trinidad and England during her teenage years, before settling in the United States. Biography Sholeh Wolpé was ...

poet, playwright (شعله ولپی) * Iraj Zebardast, poet (ايرج زبردست)

21st century

Poopak NikTalab Poopak Niktalab (born 19 May , 1970) (Persian: پوپک نیک طلب or ) is an Iranian education theorist, author and literary researcher, specially of children's literature. Life She was born in 1970 in Tehran in a cultural and literary fam ...

, Researcher, poet, Writer (پوپک نیک‌طلب) * Qeysar Aminpour قیصر امین‌پور (Romanized: Ğeysar AminPur) *

Mohammad Hanif (Iranian writer) Mohammad Hanif (born 1961) is an Iranian novelist and scholar. He is the winner of many national awards including the prestigious Iran's Book of the Year Awards, Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards, ''Golden Pen Award''s. Life A few years after 197 ...

, novelist and literary scholar محمد حنیف7

References

, ''Khadamāt-i mutaqābil-i Islām va Īrān'', c 1350s Vol 14, p583-590 * E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. * Mohammad Mokhtary Mashhad 1944 – Tehran 2002. Writer of Siavash nameh published by Bonyad-e-Shahnameh. writer of Tarikhe ostorehhay-e-Iran. one of the Persian researchers. Murdered by Islamic regime. He was one of the 72 Persians murdered by Emami terror team (Ghatlhaye zangirehi). kidnapped on his way home and choked to dead. * Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. * * R.M. Chopra, "Eminent Poetesses of Persian", 2010, Iran Society, Kolkata. * R.M. Chopra, "Great Poets of Classical Persian", 2014, Sparrow Publication, Kolkata,

References

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