Ahli Shirazi (

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: اهلی شیرازی ), full name Muhammad ibn Yusuf Ahli Shirazi, was a

poet who lived in

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from 858 to 942H (circa 1454-1535). He is buried in

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. It is said that his life style was retiring, he faced poverty, and his life was filled with struggle. Ahli Shirazi excelled especially in elaborately ingenious word plays () and other rhetorical devices. His works include ''

ghazal The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...

s'', ''

qasida The qaṣīda (also spelled ''qaṣīdah''; is originally an Arabic word , plural ''qaṣā’id'', ; that was passed to some other languages such as fa, قصیده or , ''chakameh'', and tr, kaside) is an ancient Arabic word and form of writin ...

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s'' (quatrains), and other types. One ornamental ode imitates a famous rhetorical piece by Salman Savaji and was judged more successful than Salman's original; but Lotf Ali Beg commented that such rhetorical devices are not the stuff of which true poetry is made. Of Ahli's ''

masnavi The ''Masnavi'', or ''Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi'' ( fa, مثنوی معنوی), also written ''Mathnawi'', or ''Mathnavi'', is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi. The ''Masnavi'' is one of the most ...

''s an allegory on love entitled (completed in 1489) is interesting for its treatment not only of the standard suffering of the lover (moth), but also of the affection that the beloved (candle) develops for the suffering lover, only for the two to be parted by "cruel fate" through the agency of the wind.

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Manuscript of his works available on the digital library website of the Iran Parliament Library.
Browne, E. G. ''A Literary History of Persia'', IV 233. {{DEFAULTSORT:Shirazi, Ahli 15th-century Persian-language poets 16th-century Persian-language poets 1454 births 1535 deaths Poets of the Aq Qoyunlu 16th-century writers of Safavid Iran