Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ẓuhūrī (d. AH 1025/CE 1616) was a Persian poet born around 1537. Ẓuhūrī states that he was born in Qāʾin, but tradition identifies his birthplace as a village in the district of Turshiz, thus his often used nisbat Turshīzī. He began his career in

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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. Among his known 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

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collection at the

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

Shah Jahan Shah Jahan I, (Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram; 5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also called Shah Jahan the Magnificent, was the Emperor of Hindustan from 1628 until his deposition in 1658. As the fifth Mughal emperor, his reign marked the ...

. He died in 1616, the same year as his colleague Qumī.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zuhuri, Muhammad 16th-century Iranian writers 17th-century Persian-language poets 1530s births 1616 deaths People from the Sultanate of Bijapur 16th-century Persian-language poets Iranian emigrants to India People from Razavi Khorasan province