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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 (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

9th century

* Rudaki (رودکی) *

Muhammad al-Bukhari Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...

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) ( Hijri 309 AH) was a Pe ...

(منصور حلاج) * Shahid Balkhi (ابوالحسن شهيدبن حسين جهودانکي بلخی) * Abu Hafs Sughdi

10th century

* Ferdowsi فردوسی * Abusaeid Abolkheir ابوسعید ابوالخیر * Rudaki 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 عنصری * Rabi'a Balkhi 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 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 wa ...

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

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 ...

* Omar Khayyám, 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 * Keykavus Eskandar * Nizam al-Mulk, 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 ...

* Uthman Mukhtari *

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 ...

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 i ...

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

12th century

* Suzani Samarqandi, شمس الدین محمد بن علی poet (d.1166) * Adib Sabir ادیب صابر * Am'aq عمعق بخارائی * Anvari انوری ابیوردی * Farid al-Din Attar, 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 خاقانی شروانی * Sanaayi سنایی * Sheikh Ahmad Jami *

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 de ...

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 * Ibn Balkhi * Uthman Mukhtari * Mahsati, poet مهستی گنجوی * Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat خولجه رشید الدین وطواط * Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi نظامی عروضی سمرقندی

13th century

* Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, 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 '' Khwaj ...

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 *

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 * 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 Asia ...

* Abu Tawwama (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 ...

, 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 *

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 * Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with

* Ghiyas (disambiguation), ...

* Shah Nimatullah Wali * Nur Qutb Alam, 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, poet (1470–1529) * Imrani, poet (1454–1536) * Fuzûlî, 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 Sh ...

, religious author * Syed Shah Israil, Bengali poet * Nahapet Kuchak *

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, 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 coupl ...

, poet (1601/02-1677) * Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil (1642–1720) * Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708) - Composed the famous Zafarnamah * Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi (1637–1702) * Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (

1546 Year 1546 (Roman numerals, MDXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * May 19 – The Siege of Kawagoe Castle ends in defeat for the Uesugi cla ...

– 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 ...

, 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 Be ...

(عزّت‌الله بنگالی), author * Hatef Esfehani, poet (هاتف اصفهانی) * Lutfullah Tabrizi (لطف‌الله تبریزی) * Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, (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, 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 * Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب * Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, poet, author, scholar (1889–1929) * Mirzadeh Eshghi میرزاده عشقی * Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat, poet and historian رضا قلی خان هدایت * Iraj Mirza ایرج میرزا * Nassakh, Bengali poet (نساخ) * Ebrahim Poordavood, 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 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, Bengali poet (عبید الله العبیدی سهروردی)

20th century

* Ali Abdolrezaei (علی عبدالرضایی) * Abdolali Dastgheib, Author (عبدالعلی دست غیب) * Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik-Persian poet * Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher * Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی) * Adib Boroumand, poet, politician, and lawyer (ادیب برومند) * Ahmad Kamyabi Mask, 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 Iran ...

(احمد کسروی) * Ahmad NikTalab (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 CE or 10 Shawwal 1272 AH – 28 October 1921 CE or 25 Safar 1340 AH), was an Islamic scholar, jurist, mufti, philosopher, ...

(احمد رضا خان) * Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet

, 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, playwright (بهرام بیضایی)

* Bijan Elahi, poet and translator * Bilal Yousaf, writer, critic * Bozor Sobir, poet (بازارصابر) * Bozorg Alavi, (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, satirist (ابراهیم نبوی) * Ehsan Naraghi, Scholar, sociologist and writer * Esmail Khoi, Poet * Ezzat Goushegir * Farzona, 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, 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) * Hassan Roshdieh (حسن رشدیه) * Heydar Yaghma (حیدر یغما) * Homaira Nakhat Dastgirzada (حمیرا نکهت دستگیرزاده) * Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری) * Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی) * Hushang Ebtehaj (H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج) * Ibrahim Ali Tashna, Bengali poet (تشنه) * Ismail Alam, Bengali poet (اسماعیل عالم) * Iraj Mirza, 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, sociologist, as well as an anthropologist who wa ...

(جلال آل احمد) * Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار) * Khalilullah Khalili (خلیل الله خلیلی) Poet and writer * Kioumars Saberi Foumani (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, Vi ...

, poet and lyricist * Mahbod Seraji, Writer (مهبد سراجی) * Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (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, poet, author, journalist and songwriter (مینا اسدی) * Mina Dastgheib, poet (مینا دست غیب) * Mirzadeh Eshghi (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, 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 (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, poet * Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار) * Monica Malek-Yonan, playwright * Morteza Motahhari, 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 philos ...

, Pakistani poet (محمد اقبال) * Nader Naderpour, poet (نادر نادرپور) * Nima Yushij, poet (نیما یوشیج) * Nosrat Rahmani, poet (نصرت رحمانی) * Parvin E'tesami, poet (پروین اعتصامی) * Rahi Mo'ayeri, 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, playwright, author, translator, poet and essayist (رضا شیرمرز) * Roya Hakakian, 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 (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, j ...

(صدرالدين عيني), Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers of the country's history. * Saeed Nafisi, scholar, poet and writer * Sahar Delijani, novelist (سحر دلیجانی) * Samad Behrangi, writer (صمد بهرنگی) * Seyed Ali Salehi, poet * Sems Kesmai, 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, poet and writer (شمیم ہاشمی) * Shapour Bonyad, poet (شاپور بنیاد) * Sheema Kalbasi, poet and translator (شیما کلباسی) * Siavash Kasraie poet (سیاوش کسرایی) * Simin Behbahani, poet (سیمین بهبهانی) * Simin Daneshvar, writer (سیمین دانشور) * Sipandi Samarkandi, Tajik bilingual poet * Sohrab Sepehri, 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 de ...

, 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 blac ...

, 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 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

* Morteza Motahhari, ''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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