Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Arif Ardabili ( fa, محمد بن محمد العارف اردبیلی) was a 14th-century poet who is principally known for composing the Persian poem ''Farhadnama'' between 1369 and 1372.
Life
Not much information survives about him. He was born in city of
Ardabil
Ardabil (, fa, اردبیل, Ardabīl or ''Ardebīl'') is a city in northwestern Iran, and the capital of Ardabil Province. As of the 2022 census, Ardabil's population was 588,000. The dominant majority in the city are ethnic Iranian Azerbai ...
, in 1311. He was brought to the court of
Shirvanshah Kavus and became a court poet. He completed his ''magnum opus'' ''Farhadnama'' between 1369 and 1372 (in
Persian language
Persian (), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of th ...
). He was strongly influenced by
Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi ( fa, نظامی گنجوی, lit=Niẓāmī of Ganja, Azerbaijan, Ganja, translit=Niẓāmī Ganjavī; c. 1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was ''Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ...
. He was tutor of the Shirvanshah
Hushang ().
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Persian-language poets
1311 births
Poets of the Shirvanshahs