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at the court of Ghiyās al-Dīn Mīr-i Mīrān, where he was acquainted with the poet Waḥshī. After spending several years in

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he travelled to the

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in 1580 where he entered the service of

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. There he married the daughter of Mawlānā Malik Qumī.Sprenger, Aloys (1854). ''A Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Hindu'sta'ny Manuscripts of the Libraries of the King of Oudh''. Calcutta: J. Thomas, p. 125.Available online: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344757. Among his know works is the ''Sāqīʻnāma''. An anthology of his poems is titled ''Kulliyyāt-i Ẓuhūrī'', the oldest copy of which appears to be that in the India Office collection at the

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. The seals in this manuscript show that it was in the library of Shah Jahan.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zuhuri, Muhammad 16th-century Iranian writers 17th-century Persian-language poets 1537 births 1616 deaths