The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Pakistan and elsewhere.

From the 7th to the 8th centuries

* Bassam Kurd, first poet of new Persian (بسام کُرد) *

Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi () was an early Persian poet. Muhammad Aufi Sadīd ud-Dīn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad 'Aufī Bukhārī (; ), also known under the laqab Nour ud-Dīn, was a Persian historian, philologist, and author. Biography Born in Bukhara, ...

9th century

10th century

Ferdowsi Abu'l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (also Firdawsi, ; 940 – 1019/1025) was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a single poet, and the gre ...

فردوسی * Abusaeid Abolkheir ابوسعید ابوالخیر *

Rudaki Rudaki (also spelled Rodaki; ; – 940/41) was a poet, singer, and musician who is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian. A court poet under the Samanids, he reportedly composed more than 180,000 verses, yet only a small p ...

رودکی * Abu Mansur Daqiqi ابومنصور دقیقی *

Mansur Al-Hallaj Mansour al-Hallaj () or Mansour Hallaj () ( 26 March 922) ( Hijri 309 AH) was a Persian HanbaliChristopher Melchert, "The Ḥanābila and the Early Sufis," ''Arabica'', T. 48, Fasc. 3 (2001), p. 352 mystic, poet, and teacher of Sufism. He ...

منصور حلاج *

Unsuri Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi (; died 1039/1040) was a 10th–11th century Persian poet. ‘Unṣurī is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court of Mahmud of Ghazni A ...

عنصری *

Rabi'a Balkhi Rabia Balkhi (, ) also known as Rabia al-Quzdari (or Khuzdari), was a 10th-century writer who composed poetry in Persian and Arabic. She is the first known female poet to write in Persian. A non- mystic poet, her imagery was later transformed ...

رابعه بلخی *

Asjadi Abu Nazar ʿAbdul ʿAziz bin Mansur ʿAsjadi () was a 10th-11th century royal Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire located in the Ghazni province of today's Afghanistan. Originating from Merv, and in some accounts Herat, he was a follower of th ...

عسجدی *

Farrukhi Sistani Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Julugh Farrukhi Sistani (), better known as Farrukhi Sistani (; – 1040) was one of the most prominent Persian court poets in the history of Persian literature. Initially serving a ''dehqan'' in Sistan and the Muhtajids in ...

فرخی سیستانی *

Isma'il Muntasir Isma'il (surnamed Muntasir, "Victorious") (died January 1005)'' Tabaqat-i Nasiri'' by Minhaj-i-Siraj, pg. 107, Lahore Sangmil Publications 2004 was an individual who attempted to resurrect the Samanid state in Transoxiana and eastern Iran (1000– ...

اسماعیل منتصیر *

Kisai Marvazi Kisa'i Marvazi (‎; March 6, 953 – c. 1001 CE) was a 10th-century Persian poet known for his religious and moralistic poetry. He was among the earliest Persian poets to incorporate Islamic themes into Persian poetry, distinguishing him from ...

کسائی مروزی *

Abu Shakur Balkhi Abu Shakur Balkhi (; born possibly in 912-13) was one of the most important Persian poets of the Samanid period. He was a contemporary of Rudaki, and wrote three ''masnavi The ''Masnavi'', or ''Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi'' (, DIN 31635, DMG: ''Mas̲nav ...

ابوشکور بلخی * Abu Tahir Khosrovani (ابو طاهر خسروانی) *

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 ...

, Qabus ibn Wushmagir, poet (died 1012) ابوالحسن قابوس بن وشمگیر بن زیار, شمس المعالی * Ayyuqi عیوقی *

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Harawi al-Ansari or Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1089) () also known as ''Pir-i Herat'' () "Sage of Herat", was a Sufi saint, who lived in Herat (modern-day Afghanistan). Ansari was a commentator on the Qur'an, schola ...

خواجه عبدالله انصاری *

Shahid Balkhi Shahid Balkhi (or Shuhayd; ; died 927) was a scribe, philosopher and poet active in the Chaghaniyan and Samanid courts. He is notable being for one of the first composers of New Persian poetry. Life The modern historian Francois de Blois has arg ...

شهید بلخی *

Daqiqi Abu Mansur Daqiqi (), 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 of Iran, the ''Shahnameh'', but was killed in 977 after only ...

دقیقی * Ma'ruf Balkhi معروف بلخی *

Munjik Tirmidhi Munjik Tirmidhi (; ) was a Persian poet who is best known for his satirical poems. A native of the city of Tirmidh, he served as a panegyrist of the local Muhtajid dynasty of Chaghaniyan Chaghaniyan (Middle Persian: ''Chagīnīgān''; ''Chaghā ...

Li Shunxian Li Shunxian ( zh, c=李舜弦; , , Sichuan – 926, Sichuan) was a Former Shu poet of Persian origin celebrated for her beauty and poetic talent. She was a concubine of Wang Yan, the second and last emperor of Former Shu. She was famous for bein ...

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

Wang Zongyan Wang Yan () (899–926), né Wang Zongyan (王宗衍), courtesy name Huayuan (化源), also known in historiography as Houzhu of Former Shu (前蜀後主; "last lord of Former Shu"), later posthumously created the Duke of Shunzheng (順正公) by ...

) *Abu Taieb Mosabi *Aghaji Bukhari *Abbas Rabenjani *Abul'Ala Shushtari *Abul'Muid Balkhi *Abdullah Junaidi *Istighnayi Nishaburi *Badi' Balkhi *Bashar Marghazi *Bondar Razi *Bolmasal Bukhari *Hakak Marghazi *Khabazi Nishaburi *Khusravi Sarkhasi *Runaqi Bukhari *Sepehri Bukhari *Shakir Jalab *Tahir Chagani *Tayan Zhazkhay *Amareh Marvazi *Qamari Jurjani *Lokeri *Abu Ahmad Kateb *Masoudi Marvazi *Manteqi Razi

11th century

al-Biruni Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (; ; 973after 1050), known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern ...

(973–c. 1050) *

Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani (), was an 11th-century Persian poetry, poet. He versified the tale of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Parthia, Arsacid (Parthian) period. The Iranian scholar Abdolhossein Zarrinko ...

Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (died 1037) was an Arabic-language poet of Daylamite origin during the Buyid period. Mihyar's poetry was dominated by metaphor, and he wrote in various poetic genres including ghazal, riddles, as well as writing eleg ...

(d. 1037) *

Asad Gorgani Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani (), was an 11th-century poet. He versified the tale of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Arsacid (Parthian) period. The Iranian scholar Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, however, disagrees ...

Omar Khayyám Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) ( Persian: غیاث الدین ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابورﻯ), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (), was ...

, poet (1048–1131) *

Sanai Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi (), more commonly known as Sanai, was a poet from Ghazni. He lived his life in the Ghaznavid Empire which is now located in Afghanistan (At that time, Ghazni was considered part of the cultura ...

, poet (1080–1131/1141)حکیم ابوالمجد مجدود ‌بن آدم سنایی غزنوی * Hujviri d1073 *

Abdul Qadir Gilani Abdul Qadir Gilani (; ; c. 1077/78 – 1166) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya, one of the oldest Sufi orders. He was born c. 1077/78 in the town of Na'if, Rezvanshahr in Gilan, Persia, ...

Manuchihri Abu Najm Aḥmad ibn Qauṣ ibn Aḥmad Manūčihrī (), a.k.a. Manuchehri Dāmghānī (fl. 1031–1040), was an eleventh-century court poet in Persia and in the estimation of J. W. Clinton, 'the third and last (after ʿUnṣurī and Farrukhī) o ...

* Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian *

Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi Zahir al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Zayd-i Bayhaqi (; c. 1097 – 1169) also known as Ibn Fondoq (ابن فندق) was a polymath and historian. He is the author of ''Tarikh-i Bayhaq''. Ancestry Bayhaqi was a descendant of Khuzaima ibn Thabit (died ...

Nasir Khusraw Nasir Khusraw (; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was an Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary () for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate. Despite being one of the most prominent Isma'ili philosophers and theologians of the Fatimids and ...

, traveler, writer and poet * Baba Tahir Oryan * Rabi'ah Quzdari *

Abu-al-faraj Runi Abul Faraj al-Runi (), was an 11th-century Persian court poet who was born in Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List o ...

* Keykavus Eskandar *

Nizam al-Mulk Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī Ṭūsī () (1018 – 1092), better known by his honorific title of Niẓām al-Mulk (), was a Persian Sunni scholar, jurist, political philosopher and vizier of the Seljuk Empire. Rising from a low position w ...

, author of

Siyasatnama ''Siyāsatnāmeh'' (, ), also known as ''Siyar al-mulûk'' (, ), is the most famous work by Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of Nizamiyyah schools in medieval Persia and vazier to the Seljuq sultans Alp Arslan and Malik Shah. Nizam al-Mulk possessed ...

Azraqi Abul-Mahāsin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi () was an 11th-century poet who lived in Iran. Ferdowsi is said to have taken refuge in Azraqi's father's house (''Ismail Varrāq'', 'the book seller') on his flight from Ghazneh to Tus. Born in Herat, Az ...

Masud Sa'd Salman Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān () was an 11th-century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire who is known as the prisoner poet as well as the first poet ever of Lashkari/Lahori (later known as Urdu) as per Amir Khosrow's tribute to him. He lived fro ...

* Uthman Mukhtari *

Qatran Tabrizi Qatran Tabrizi (; 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 life there as well as in the ...

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 ...

Asadi Tusi Abu Nasr Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi (; – 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 in the late 1080s in Tabriz. Asadi Tusi is considered a ...

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

Athir al-Din Akhsikati Athir al-Din Akhsikati (; 1126–28 – 1211/12) was an Iranian writer, whose ''ghazals'' in Persian played an important role in the development of the genre. A native of Akhsikath in Central Asia, Athir al-Din first started his career at the c ...

*Kafarak Ghaznavi *Labibi

12th century

Suzani Samarqandi Shams al-Dīn Muhammad b. ‘Alī (or possibly Mas‘ūd) () (d. 1166) was a poet born in Samarqand or its vicinity. He is more often known by the name Suzani (, meaning "needle maker"), or Suzani Samarqandi (). According to one theory, the name ...

, شمس الدین محمد بن علی poet (d.1166) *

Adib Sabir Shihabuddin Sharaful-udaba Sabir (Persian: شهاب‌الدین شرف‌الادبا صابر) known as Adib Sabir (ادیب صابر), was a 12th-century Persian poet. Originating from Termedh, he was employed in the court of Sultan Sanjar. ...

ادیب صابر * Am'aq عمعق بخارائی *

Anvari Anvari (1126–1189), full name Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud () was a Persian poet. Anvarī was born in Abivard (now in Turkmenistan) and died in Balkh, Khorāsān (now in Afghanistan).''Encyclopædi ...

انوری ابیوردی *

Farid al-Din Attar Faridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad Attar Nishapuri ( – c. 1221; ), better known by his pen-names Faridoddin () and ʿAttar of Nishapur (, Attar means apothecary), was a poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense ...

, poet () فریدالدین عطار نیشاپوری * Nizami, poet (c. 1140c. 1203) نظامی * Sheikh Ruzbehan شیخ روزبهان *

عبدالقادر گیلانی *

Khaqani Shirvani Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān (), commonly known as Khāqānī (, , – 1199), was a major Persian poet and prose-writer. He was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as an ode-write ...

خاقانی شروانی * Sanaayi سنایی *

Sheikh Ahmad Jami Ahmad Ibn Abolhasan Jāmi-e Nāmaqi-e Torshizi () (born Namagh (now Kashmar), Persia, 1048 – died Torbat-e Jam, 1141) better known as Sheikh Ahhmad-e Jami or Sheikh Ahmad-i Jami or Sheikh Ahmad-e jam or Sheikh-e Jam or simply Ahmad-e Jam was ...

Muhammad Aufi Sadīd ud-Dīn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad 'Aufī Bukhārī (; ), also known under the laqab Nour ud-Dīn, was a Persian historian, philologist, and author. Biography Born in Bukhara, Aufi claimed descent from Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf (d. 654) a c ...

Falaki Shirvani Muhammad Falaki (; 1107–1155), commonly known as Falaki Shirvani () was a poet who served at the court of the Shirvanshah Manuchihr III (). A student of the poet Khaqani, Falaki is known to have authored a Persian (collection of poems), of w ...

Hassan Ghaznavi Ashrafuddin Abu Muhammad Hasan ibn Muhammad Husayni Ghaznavi () known as Ashraf (اشرف) was a 12th-century Persian poet. A sayyid, he boasted of his lineage from the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in his poetry. Originating from Ghaz ...

, poet * Sanai Ghaznavi, poet *

Mu'izzi Amīr ash-Shu‘arā’ Abū Abdullāh Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Malik Mu‘izzī (, romanized as ''Mu'ezzi'') (born Nishapur 1048/9) was a poet who ranks as one of the great masters of the Persian panegyric form known as ''qasideh''. Mu'izzī's f ...

* Ibn Balkhi * Uthman Mukhtari *

Mahsati Mahsati () was a medieval Persian female poet who was reportedly one of the first poets to compose '' ruba'iyat'' (quatrains) in her native language. Name Various interpretations of her name have been suggested based on the consonants ''mhsty' ...

, poet مهستی گنجوی *

Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat Rashid al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Jalil al-Umari (; 1088/9 – 1182/3), better known by his nickname of Vatvat (; "the swallow"), was a secretary, poet, philologist in the Khwarazmian Empire. In addition to being a prolific author in Ara ...

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 (), more popularly known as Sultan Walad (), was a Sufi, Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the founders of the Mawlawiya () order.Schubert, Gudrun. "Sulṭān Walad , Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad-i Walad." Enc ...

* Saadi, poet (1184–1283/1291?) *

Rashid-al-Din Hamadani Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (;‎ 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, ) was a statesman, historian, and physician in Ilkhanate Iran.Shams Tabrizi Shams-i Tabrīzī () 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 referenced with great rev ...

* 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 (Persian: شیخ زاهد گیلانی), was an Irani ...

Khwaju Kermani Khwaju Kermani (; 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 ''Khwaja'' which he uses as his poeti ...

* Mahmoud Shabestari * Najmeddin Razi * Zartosht Bahram-e Pazhdo *

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.Qazi Naser al-Din Abdullah ibn Amr was a prominent figure in Islamic philoso ...

* Nizari Quhistani *

Awhadi Maraghai Awhadi Maraghei (also spelled Auhadi; ) (1274/75–1338) was a Persian Sufi poet primarily based in Azerbaijan during the rule of the Mongol Ilkhanate. He is usually surnamed "Maraghai", but also mentioned as Awhadi Esfahani because his fat ...

Humam-i Tabrizi Humam-i Tabrizi (; 1238/39 – 1314/15), was a Sufi poet of the Ilkhanate era, who composed works in Persian, as well as some in Arabic. He was one of the most distinguished figures of his time due to his poetry, teachings, piety, and Sufi spirit ...

* Auhaduddin Kermani *

Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad ibn Rashid al-Din Fadlallah (died 1336) was a Persian bureaucrat under the Ilkhanate, who served as the vizier of the last Ilkhan, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan () from 1327 to 1335. Ghiyath al-Din was the son of Rashid al-Din Ha ...

Ata-Malik Juvayni Ata-Malik Juvayni ; 1226 – 5 March 1283) was a bureaucrat and historian from the Juvayni family who served under the Mongol Empire. He is known for composing the ''Tarikh-i Jahangushay'' ("History of the World Conqueror"), an important account ...

Nasreddin Nasreddin () or Nasreddin Hodja (variants include Mullah Nasreddin Hodja, Nasruddin Hodja, Mullah Nasruddin, Mullah Nasriddin, Khoja Nasriddin, Khaja Nasruddin) (1208–1285) is a character commonly found in the folklores of the Muslim world, ...

* Abu Tawwama (died 1300) * Kamal al-Din Isfahani *

Afdal al-Din Kashani Afḑal al-Dīn Maraqī Kāshānī (), also known as Baba Afzal (), was a Persian poet and philosopher. Several dates have been suggested for his death, with the best estimate being around 1213/1214. Life The information on his life is scanty a ...

*Badr Jajarmi *Basati Samarqandi *Keykavus Razi

14th century

Hafez (), known by his pen name Hafez ( or 'the keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, “Ḥāfeẓ” designates someoone who has learned the Qurʾān by heart" also known by his nickname Lisan al-Ghaib ('the tongue of the unseen'), was a Persian lyri ...

, poet (born about 1310–1325) حافظ *

Amir Khusrow Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253 – 1325 AD), better known as Amīr Khusrau, sometimes spelled as, Amir Khusrow or Amir Khusro, was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar, who lived during the period of the Delhi Sult ...

, امیر خسرو دهلوی *

Shah Shoja Mozaffari Shah Shoja (), was the ruler of the Mozaffarids from 1358 to 1384. He was the son and successor of Mubariz al-Din Muhammad. During the lengthy reign of Shah Shoja, his kingdom reached its zenith of power, stretching from Balochistan to Arran. ...

شاه شجاع مظفری *

Ubayd Zakani Khwajeh Nizam al-Din Ubayd Allah al-Zakani (; d. 1370), better known as Ubayd Zakani (), was a Persian poet of the Mongol era, regarded as one of the best satirists in Persian literature. His most famous work is '' Mush-o Gorbeh'' ("Mouse and Cat" ...

عبید زاکانی *

Jahan Malek Khatun Jahan Malek Khatun (, ''jahān malik khātūn'') was an Injuid poet and princess. She wrote under pen name ''Jahān'' () and was a contemporary of the poet Hafez. Life Her birthdate is not known, but her parents were married in 1324, so she mu ...

جهان ملک خاتون * Pur-Baha Jami پور بهار جامی * Assar Tabrizi عصار تبریزی *

Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (; CE) was a Sufi saint of the Kubrawiya order, who played an important role in the spread of Islam in the Kashmir Valley. He was born in Hamadan, Iran, and preached Islam in Central Asia and South Asia. He died in S ...

, میر سید علی ابن شہاب الدین ہمدانی - Islamic preacher traveller and poet (1314–1384) *

Padishah Khatun Safwat al-Din Khatun (1256–1295 ,), otherwise known as Padishah Khatun (), was the ruler of Kirman from 1292 until 1295 as a member of the Qutlugh-Khanid dynasty in Persia and a poet in Persian language. Life She was born in 125 ...

پادشاه خاتون * 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 Mu'in al-Din Ali Husayni Sarabi Tabrizi, commonly known by his '' laqab'' (honorific title) of Qasim-i Anvar (; 1356 – 1433) was a Sufi mystic, poet, and a leading '' da'i'' (preacher) of the Safavid order. Biography Mu'in al-Din Ali was bor ...

Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah Ghiyasuddin A'zam Shah (, ) was the third Sultan of Bengal and the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. He was one of the most prominent medieval Bengali sultans. He established diplomatic relations with the Ming Empire of China, pursued cultural contacts with ...

, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with

Shah Nimatullah Wali Shāh Nimatullāh or Shāh Ni'matullāh Wali ( ''Shāh Ne'matullāh-i Valī''), also spelled as ''Ne'matollah'' and ''Ni'matallah'' was the spiritual leader or Qutb of the Ni'matullah Order in Iran from the 14th and 15th centuries. He is rever ...

Maghrebi Tabrizi Muhammad Shirin Maghribi () was a Sufism, Sufi poet and scholar, who is considered one of leading composers of Persian mysticism, Persian mystical poetry in the 14th-century. Life Of Persians, Persian stock, Maghribi was born in 1349 in the vi ...

Nur Qutb Alam Nūr Qut̤b ʿĀlam (, ) was a 14th-century Bengali Islamic scholar, author and poet. Based in the erstwhile Bengali capital Hazrat Pandua, he was the son and successor of Alaul Haq, a senior scholar of the Bengal Sultanate. He is noted for his ...

, Bengali religious scholar * Salman Savaji *Sharaf al-Din Ram *Heydar Shirazi *Muin al-Din Jovaini *Junayd Shirazi *Shahab al-Din Bidavoni *Naser Bejehie *Imad al-Din Fazlavi *Shams al-Din Kashani *Imad Kermani *Nizam al-Din Qari *Jalal al-Din Atighi Tabrizi *Jalal Tabib Shirazi *Jalal Azod *Hassan Mutekalim *Rukn Davi-Dar *Jalal Ukkashe

15th century

Jami Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī (; 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 Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami, was a ...

, poet (1414–1492) * Ahli Shirazi * Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, poet (1441–1501) *

Azari Tusi Azari-e Tusi () Shaikh Jalaluddini Alii Hamza ibni Malik Hashimii Bayhaqii Isfarainii Marvazi (1380 in Esfarayen – 1462 in Esfarayen) was a Persian peoples, Persian poet. Azari-e Tusi lived for a while in Tus, Iran, Tus. Azari was a poet in Bahm ...

(1380–1462) * Badriddin Hilali, poet (1470–1529) * Imrani, poet (1454–1536) *

Fuzûlî Muhammad bin Suleyman (, ; 1483–1556), better known by his pen name Fuzuli (, ), was a 16th-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani, as well as Persian language, Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as on ...

, poet (1494–1556) فضولی * Amir Shahi Sabzevari * Esmat Bukhari * Sharaf al-Din Sabzevari * Hamedi Isfahani * Qbuli Heravi * Katebi Tarshizi *Asefi Heravi *Vahid Tabrizi *Fahmi Astarabadi

16th century

* Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620) *

Vahshi Bafghi Vahshi Bafqi () was a Persians, Persian poet of the Safavid Iran, Safavid era, considered to be one of the greatest of his generation. Biography Vahshi was born in 1532 in Bafq, an Agrarian society, agrarian town near the provincial capital of Ya ...

Hatefi Abd-Allah Hatefi, commonly known as Hatefi (also spelled Hatifi; ; 1454 – 1521) was a Persian poet and nephew of the distinguished poet Jami (died 1492). Life Hatefi was born in 1454 in Khar Gerd, a village that formed a district of the town ...

, nephew of the poet

Taleb Amoli Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Taleb Amoli known as Talib Amuli and Talib Amoli (, also aka ''Ashub'', ''Atash'', ''Taleba'' and ''Malek Al Shoara Taleb'') (b. Mazandaran 1586 - d. India 1627) Iranian Tabari poet was of the early 17th century. He was the po ...

(1586–1627) * Baba Fighani Shirazi * Naw'i Khabushani *

'Orfi Shirazi Jamāl-al-Din Moḥammad Sidi (1555–1591), known by his pen-name Urfi, or Orfi or Urfi Shirazi (), was a 16th-century Persian poet. He was born in Shiraz and in his youth, he migrated to India and became one of the poets of the court of Akba ...

Faizi Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak, popularly known by his pen-name, Faizi (20 September 1547 – 15 October 1595) was a poet and scholar of late medieval India whose ancestors were the ''Malik-ush-Shu'ara'' (poet laureate) of Akbar's Court. Blochmann, H. ...

Mohtasham Kashani Muhtasham Kashani (1500–1588) () was an Iranian poet of the Safavid era. He was influential in Shi'ite religious poetry, especially ''marsiyah'' poetry mourning the tragedy of Ashura. He was born in Kashan Kashan (; ) is a city in t ...

Syed Shah Israil Syed Shah Isra'il (, ), also known as Shah Bondegi (, ; lit. ''King of Worship''), was a 16th-century Persian language writer from Bengal. He is celebrated as a renowned medieval author of the Sylhet region. Background Syed Israil was descend ...

, Bengali poet *

Nahapet Kuchak Nahapet Kuchak (Kouchak) (; died 1592) was an Armenian medieval poet considered one of the first '' ashughs''. He is best known for his '' hairens'' (հայրեն), which are "four lines of couplets with a single coherent theme." Kuchak was likely ...

Teimuraz I of Kakheti Teimuraz I ( ka, თეიმურაზ I; 1589–1663), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a Georgian monarch ('' mepe'') who ruled, with intermissions, as King of Kakheti from 1605 to 1648 and also of Kartli from 1625 to 1633. The eldest son of ...

(Tahmuras Khan) *

Qazi Nurullah Shustari Sayyid Nurullah ibn Sharif al-Mar'ashi al-Shustari, commonly known as Qazi Nurullah Shushtari (1549–1610), also known as ''Shahid-e-Salis'' (third martyr) was an eminent Shia faqih (jurist) and alim (scholar) of the Mughal period. He also h ...

* Sanai Mashhadi * Hazegh Gilani * Sahabi Astarabadi * Sharaf Jahan Qazvini * Shahidi Qumi * Ghazali Mashhadi * Fekri Jameh-Baf * Ghasemi Gonabadi * Lesani Shirazi * Meili Mashhadi * Naziri Nishaburi * Vali Dashtbayazi * Darvishi Dahaki * Nizam Astarabadi * Heyrati Tuni * Khari Tabrizi * Khajeghi Enayat * Sabri IsfahaniZabihullah Safa: History of literature in Iran, vol. 5, section 1, Tehran. * Tarhi Shirazi * Shuja Kor * Kami Qazvini * Hejri Qumi * Heydar Kuliche-Paz * Abdi Shirazi * Kahi Kabuli * Malek Qomi * Qeidi Shirazi * Makhdom Sharifi * Nizam al-Din Hashimi * Gharari Gilani * Hisabi Natanzi * Mirak Salehi * Serfi SavajiEthé, H., Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, Oxford, 1903. * Hozuri Qumi * Gheirati Shirazi * Voghui Nishaburi * Vahshi Jushghani * Voghui Tabrizi * Shuaib Jushghani * Heydar Muamayi * Fosuni Yazdi * Ali Komrehyi

17th century

Saib Tabrizi Saib Tabrizi (, , ''Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿalī Ṣāʾib'', ) was an Iranian poet, regarded as one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets, known as the ''ghazal''. He also established ...

, poet (1601/02–1677) *

Mohammad Taher Vahid Qazvini Mirza Mohammad Taher Vahid Qazvini (; died 1700), was an Iranian bureaucrat, poet, and historian, who served as the grand vizier of two Safavid monarchs, Shah Suleiman () and the latter's son Soltan Hoseyn () from 1691 to 1699. He is also notab ...

(1621–1700) * Kalim Kashani (1581/1585–1651) * Mohammad Qoli Salim Tehrani (died 1647) *

Shah Abdur Rahim Shah Abdur Rahim (; 1644-1719) was an Islamic scholar and a writer who assisted in the compilation of Fatawa-e-Alamgiri, the voluminous code of Islamic law. He was the father of the Muslim philosopher Shah Waliullah Dehlawi. He became a disciple o ...

, Indian religious scholar * Jamila Isfahani, poet *

Shah Waliullah Dehlawi Qutb ud-Din Ahmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Rahim al-ʿUmari ad-Dehlawi (‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic Sunni scholar and Sufi reformer, who contributed to Islamic revival in the Indian s ...

, Indian religious leader *

(Tahmuras Khan) * Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil (1642–1720) *

Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh (; born Gobind Das; 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708) was the tenth and last human Sikh gurus, Sikh Guru. He was a warrior, poet, and philosopher. In 1675, at the age of nine he was formally installed as the leader of the ...

(1666–1708) - Composed the famous Zafarnamah * Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi (1637–1702) * Razi Danesh Mashadi (died 1665) *

Bhai Nand Lal Bhai Nand Lal (; ; 1633–1720), also known by his pen name Goya (; ), was a 17th-century Sikh poet in the Punjab region. Biography Bhai Nand Lal, a respected Persian scholar, was one of the 52 poets associated with Guru Gobind Singh. Born in G ...

(1633–1713) *

Gani Kashmiri Gani Kashmiri ( ; born Muhammad Tahir Gani Ashai; ), was a Persian-language poet from Kashmir. His uncertain authorship, including gazals and 100,000 verses, consist of some single tazmins, ninety-two rubaʿis, two maṯnavis, and one twenty ...

(c. 1630 – c. 1669) *Mir Razi Artimani *Kamali * Munir Lahori (1610–1644) *Zolali Khansari *Najib Kashani *Naziri Nishaburi *Saber Kermani *Tasir Tabrizi *Qasem Mashhadi *Masih Kashani *Vaez Qazvini *Rafi Mashhadi *Qudsi Mashhadi *Zafarkhan Hasan *Mir Nejat Isfhani

18th century

Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlavi (11 October 1746 – 5 June 1824) was an Indian Sunni Muslim Scholar and Sufi Saint. He is known as the Muhaddith and Mujaddid from India. He was a member of the Naqshbandi Sufi order. Their tradition inspired la ...

, Indian religious scholar (شاه عبد العزیز دهلوی) * Azar Bigdeli (آذر بیگدلی) *

Ram Mohan Roy Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer and writer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinen ...

, Bengali Hindu reformer (رام موهن رای) * Hazin Lahiji (حزین لاهیجی) * Izzatullah Bengali (عزّت‌الله بنگالی), author *

Hatef Esfehani Hatef Esfahani () was an 18th-century poet based in Isfahan during the collapse of the Safavid dynasty of Iran and the chaos that followed. He was one of the earliest and leading members of the literary movement '' Bazgasht-e adabi'', which advoca ...

, poet (هاتف اصفهانی) * Effat Nasabeh, poet ( عفت نصابه) * Lutfullah Tabrizi (لطف‌الله تبریزی) * Zana Lorestani (زانا لرستانی) *

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (27 December 179715 February 1869), commonly known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language, he also produced a significant body of work in Persian. Ghali ...

, (مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب) * Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani, (زین‌العابدین شیروانی) *

I'tisam-ud-Din Mīrzā Muḥammad Iʿtiṣām ad-Dīn Panchnūrī or Itesham Uddin (, ,1730-1800) was a Bengalis, Bengali diplomat for the Mughal Empire. He became the first South Asian to travel to Europe in the modern era, in 1765. He was also a munshi serv ...

, Bengali diplomat (اعتصام الدین) * Ghulam Mustafa Burdwani, Bengali religious scholar and poet (غلام مصطفی بردوانی) * Vahdat Kermanshahi *

Vesal Shirazi Vesal Shirazi (: 1782 – 1845) was an Iranian poet, who wrote in the style of ''Bazgasht-e adabi'', which advocated for the return of the Khorasani and Iraqi styles in Persian literature. Some historians consider him to have been the most promin ...

* Forughi Bastami * Yaghma Jandaghi * Neshat Esfahani * Sadat Kazeruni * Kosar Hamedani * Sabahi Bigdeli * Nategh Makrani *Bahadur, Nawab Sediq Hasan Khan (2006). Association candlestick. By the efforts of Mohammad Kazem Kahdooi *Homai, Jalaluddin (1983). Rhetoric techniques and literary industries. Tehran: Tus. *Khalili Jahantigh, Maryam; Mirbalochzaei, Eshaq (Spring 2013)

19th century

* Agha Ahmad Ali, Bengali poet (آغا احمد علي) *

Mohammad-Taghi Bahar Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (; also romanised as Mohammad-Taqī Bahār; 10 December 1886 in Mashhad – 22 April 1951 in Tehran), widely known as Malek osh-Sho'arā () and Malek osh-Sho'arā Bahār ("poet laureate," literally: ''the king of poets''), ...

, Malek o-Sho'arā Bahār محمد تقی بهار(ملک الشعرا) *

Ali Akbar Dehkhoda Allameh Ali-Akbar Dehkhodā (; 1879 – March 9, 1956) was a prominent Iranian literary writer, philologist, and lexicographer. He was the author of the ''Dehkhoda Dictionary'', the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language publish ...

, linguist and journalist علی اکبر دهخدا *

مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب * Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, poet, author, scholar (1889–1929) *

Mirzadeh Eshghi Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani (; December 11, 1894July 3, 1924) was an Iranian political writer and poet who used the pen name Mirzadeh Eshghi (). Biography He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned Frenc ...

میرزاده عشقی *

Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat (; 8 June 1800 – 29 June 1871) was an Iranian literary historian, administrator, and poet in 19th-century Qajar Iran. Biography Hedayat was born in Tehran on 8 June 1800 to a renowned family which was descended from the ...

, poet and historian رضا قلی خان هدایت *

Iraj Mirza Prince Iraj Mirza ( Persian: ایرج میرزا, literally ''Prince Iraj''; October 1874 – 14 March 1926), titled Jalāl-ol-Mamālek ( Persian: جلال‌الممالک), was a prominent Iranian poet. He was the son of Prince Gholam-Hossein ...

ایرج میرزا *

Nassakh Khan Bahadur Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdul Ghafūr (11 February 1834 - 14 June 1889), better known by his pen name Nassakh (), was a British Indian officer, writer, literary critic and collector. He is best known for his magnum opus ''Sukhan-e-Shuara'' ...

, Bengali poet (نساخ) *

Mohammad Taqi Sepehr Mirza Mohammad Taqi Sepehr (), also known as Mirza Mohammad Taqi Kashani, or with the honorific Lesan ol-Molk (; 1801–1880), was an Iranian court historian and littérateur of the Qajar era. He wrote with the pen name Sepehr ("celestial sphere" ...

(محمدتقی سپهر) *

Ebrahim Poordavood Ebrāhim Pourdāvoud (; February 9, 1885 – November 17, 1968) was born in Rasht, Iran, to a mother who was the daughter of a clergyman and a father who was a reputable merchant and landlord. He is one of the most formidable scholars of Iran dur ...

, ancient languages, Avesta ابراهیم پور داوود *

Aref Qazvini Abolqassem Aref Qazvini or َAref Qazvini (1882 – January 21, 1934; ), also known as National Poet ( Persian: شاعر ملی) was a distinguished Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician. Known for his significant contributions to Persian literatu ...

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 was notable for his philanthropic works in Bengal, most notably his donations to the present Bangladesh University of Engineering an ...

, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet (خواجه احسن‌الله) *

Khwaja Muhammad Afzal Khwaja Muhammad Afzal (1875 – 1940) was an Urdu poet in East Bengal, British India. Early life In 1875, Afzal was born into the Dhaka Nawab family. His father was Khwaja Yusuf Jan. He received formal education in English and Persian. He studied ...

, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet (خواجه محمد افضل) * Sheyda Gerashi, poet and Panegyrist شیدای گراشی * Qaani قاآنی * Abd al-Hosayn Ayati, poet, orator, author and historian عبدالحسین آیتی *

Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy (, ; 1832 – 9 February 1885) was a Bengali Islamic scholar, educationist and writer from Midnapore. He is regarded as the Father of modern Islamic education in Bengal and was awarded with the title of ''Bahr ul ...

, Bengali poet (عبید الله العبیدی سهروردی)

20th century

* Ali Abdolrezaei (علی عبدالرضایی) *

Abdolali Dastgheib Abdolali Dastgheib (; born November 7, 1931) is an Iranian literary critic, writer, translator and author of 66 books and numerous articles. Biography Abdolali Dastgheib was born in Shiraz, Iran. His father (Javad) was a teacher and school prin ...

, Author (عبدالعلی دست غیب) * Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik-Persian poet *

Abdolkarim Soroush Abdolkarim Soroush ( ), born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 16 December 1945; ), is an Iranian Islamic and Rumi scholar, and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran. He is among the most influential figures in the religio ...

, philosopher * Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی) *

Adib Boroumand Adib Boroumand (or Adīb Borūmand) (; 11 June 1924 – 13 March 2017) was an Iranian poet, politician, and lawyer. He was the head of the leadership council and chairman of the central council of the National Front of Iran. He is known as the ...

, poet, politician, and lawyer (ادیب برومند) *

Ahmad Kamyabi Mask Ahmad Kamyabi Mask (; born 1944) is a writer, translator, publisher, and current Professor Emeritus of Modern Drama and Theater of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran. He is a prominent scholar of French Avant-garde theater and i ...

, writer and translator (احمد کامیابی مسک) *

Ahmad Kasravi Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi (; 29 September 1890 – 11 March 1946), later known as Ahmad Kasravi, was a pre-eminent Iranian historian, jurist, linguist, theologian, a staunch secularist and intellectual. He was a professor of law at the University ...

(احمد کسروی) *

Ahmad NikTalab Ahmad NikTalab (, ; 22 April 1934 – 3 March 2020), also known as Yavar Hamedani ( ), was an Iranian poet, author, and linguist. Life He was born in Hamadan, Hamedan. After education and living in Hamedan for the first part of his life, he ...

(احمد نیک طلب), poet and linguistic *

Ahmad Raza Khan Ahmad Raza Khan Baraylawi (14 June 1856–28 October 1921), known reverentially as A'la Hazrat, (Grand Master), was an Islamic scholar, mufti, polymath, gnostic, poet from (undivided) India, he is considered as the founder of the Barelvi movem ...

(احمد رضا خان) *

Ahmad Shamlou Ahmad Shamlou (, ''Ahmad Šāmlū'' , also known under his pen name A. Bamdad ()) (December 12, 1925 – July 23, 2000) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. ...

(احمد شاملو), poet Ahmad Shamlou

, linguist (علی اکبر دهخدا) * Ali Mohammad Afghani, writer (علی محمد افغانی) *

Ali Shariati Ali Shariati Mazinani (, 23November 193318June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century. He has be ...

, 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 Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, Beyzāee, ; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies. Beyzaie is the ...

, playwright (بهرام بیضایی) Bahram Bayzai

Bijan Elahi Bijan Elahi (; ; 7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator. He was for most of his life known as a leading figure of a modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual ar ...

, poet and translator *

Bilal Yousaf Bilal Yousaf (born 1928) is an Iranian writer. Biography Bilal Yousaf was born in a Zoroastrian family in Kerman. He went to Tehran to study at high school and pursued an education at Alborz High School. Yousaf earned a degree in natural resou ...

, writer, critic * Bozor Sobir, poet (بازارصابر) *

Bozorg Alavi Bozorg Alavi (; February 2, 1904 – February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s andfollowing the 1953 coup against P ...

, (بزرگ علوی) writer * Dariush Shayegan (داریوش شایگان) *

Ebrahim Nabavi Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi (; 13 November 1958 – 15 January 2025) was an Iranian satirist, writer, diarist and researcher. He contributed to the news website ''Gooya'' and the online newspaper ''Rooz'', and had a satirical program for the website a ...

, satirist (ابراهیم نبوی) * Ehsan Naraghi, Scholar, sociologist and writer * Esmail Khoi, Poet * Ezzat Goushegir * Farzona, poet (Fаrzonа/فرزانه) * Farzaneh Aghaeipour (فرزانه آقایی‌پور) * Fereidoon Tavallali, poet (فریدون توللی) * Fereshteh Ahmadi, writer (فرشته احمدی) * Fereydoun Moshiri, poet (فريدون مشيری) *

Forough Farrokhzad Forugh Farrokhzad (; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic,* feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32. Ear ...

, poet (فروغ فرخزاد) *

Ghazaleh Alizadeh Ghazaleh Alizadeh ( ; 15 February 1949 – 12 May 1996) (née Fatemeh Alizadeh) was an Iranian poet and writer. Her mother, Monirosadat Seyedi, shared her literary talents as both a poet and writer. Alizadeh was married twice, and with her husba ...

, novelist (غزاله علیزاده) *

Gholam Hossein Saedi Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi MD (, 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 books, representing his talents ...

, writer *

Gholamhossein Mosahab Gholamhossein Mosahab (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 st ...

, encyclopedist (غلامحسین مصاحب) * Gholamreza Rouhani, Poet (غلامرضا روحاني) *

Gulnazar Keldi Gulnazar Keldi (; 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", the national anthem of Tajikist ...

, Tajik poet * Hamid Mosadegh(حمید مصدق) * Hassan Roshdieh (حسن رشدیه) *

Heydar Yaghma Heydar Yaghma (: 11 January 1924 – 14 May 1984) was an Iranian poet and literary editor. He was a descendant of the early- Qajar era poet Yaghma Jandaqi. References Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yaghma, Heydar 1924 births 1988 deaths Ir ...

(حیدر یغما) * Homaira Nakhat Dastgirzada (حمیرا نکهت دستگیرزاده) *

Houshang Golshiri Houshang Golshiri (; March 16, 1938''A Hundred Years of Storytelling in Iran'', Amir Abedini, p. 274. – June 5, 2000) was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to use modern literary techniqu ...

(هوشنگ گلشیری) *

Houshang Moradi Kermani Houshang Moradi Kermani (, also Romanized as "Hūshang Morādi-e Kermāni"; born 7 September 1944 at Sirch, a village in Kerman province, Iran) is an Iranian writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. He was a finalist in 2014 ...

(هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی) *

Hushang Ebtehaj Amir Hushang Ebtehaj (; 25 February 1928 – 10 August 2022), also known by his pen name H. E. Sayeh (, lit. ''Shadow''), was an Iranian poet of the 20th century, whose life and work spans many of Iran's political, cultural and literary upheava ...

(H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج) *

Ibrahim Ali Tashna Shāh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ʿAlī (; 1872 – 11 September 1931) was a Bengalis, Bengali Islamic scholar, poet and activist of the Khilafat Movement. He wrote poetry in the Bengali language, Bengali, Urdu and Farsi, Persian languages under the pe ...

, Bengali poet (تشنه) *

Ismail Alam Abū al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ʿAlī (; 1868–1937) was a Bengali politician, teacher and activist of the Khilafat Movement. He wrote poetry in Urdu under the pen name of Ālam (Urdu: ). His Diwan-i-Alam poem led to the Calcutta Alia Mad ...

, Bengali poet (اسماعیل عالم) *

, poet (ایرج میرزا) Iraj mirza picture

* Iraj Pezeshkzad, novelist (ایرج پزشکزاد) *

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad Seyyed Jalāl Āl-e-Ahmad (; 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 was "one of the earliest and ...

(جلال آل احمد) * Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار) *

Khalilullah Khalili Khalilullah Khalili (1907–1987; - ''Ḫalīlallāḥ Ḫalīlī''; alternative spellings: ''Khalilollah'', ''Khalil Ullah'') was Afghanistan's foremost 20th century poet as well as a noted historian, university professor, diplomat and royal con ...

(خلیل الله خلیلی) Poet and writer * Kioumars Saberi Foumani (کیومرث صابری فومنی) * Loiq Sher-Ali (لائق شیرعلی), poet from Tajikistan *

Leila Kasra Leila Kasra (‎; 1939–1989) also known as Hedieh (), (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, Vigen, Moein, Maha ...

, poet and lyricist * Mahbod Seraji, Writer (مهبد سراجی) *

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (; born August 1, 1940 in Dowlatabad, Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal exper ...

(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 Mana Aghaee (; born August 24, 1973 in Bushehr, Iran) is an Iranian poet, translator, podcast producer, and scholar of Iranian studies. Background Mana Aghaee was born 24 August 1973 into a middle-class family in Bushehr, Iran. In 1987 her f ...

, poet, author and translator (مانا آقایی) *

Manouchehr Atashi Manouchehr Atashi (September 25, 1931 – November 20, 2005; ) was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist of Kurdish descent. He was born in 1931 in Dashtestan, Bushehr province Bushehr Province () is one of the 31 Provinces of Ira ...

(منوچهر آتشی) *

Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi (; ; 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 (comics), Persepolis'' and Persepo ...

, graphic novelist * Maryam Jafari Azarmani (مریم جعفری آذرمانی), poet, critic *

Massoud Behnoud Masoud Behnoud (; 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 Kingdom and works as a journ ...

(مسعود بهنود), journalist *

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles, or Akhavān-Sāless () (March 1, 1929 in Mashhad, Iran – August 26, 1990 in Tehran, Iran), pen name Mim. Omid (, meaning ''M. Hope'') was a prominent Iranian modern poet. He is one of the pioneers of Free Verse (''New ...

, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث) *

Mina Assadi Mina Assadi (; born March 12, 1943) is an Iranian-born poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden. Author Assadi wrote her debut book, a collection of poems named ''Minas Gift'' (Armanghane Mina), at the age ...

, poet, author, journalist and songwriter (مینا اسدی) * Mina Dastgheib, poet (مینا دست غیب) *

(میرزاده عشقی) *

Mirzo Tursunzoda Mirzo Tursunzoda (, 2 May 1911 – 24 September 1977) was an important Tajikistani and Soviet poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simpl ...

, Tajik poet * Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, writer (محمد علی جمالزاده) *

Mohammad Hejazi Mohammad Hossein-Zadeh Hejazi (, 20 January 1956 – 18 April 2021) was an Iranian military commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Early life and education Hejazi was born in Isfahan in 1956. He attended the University of Tehran. ...

, novelist and playwright * Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet (محمد حسين شهريار) *

Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh (also spelled Mohammad-Jafar Pooyandeh or Mohammad Jafar Poyandeh, ) (7 June 1954 – 8 or 9 December 1998) was an Iranian writer, translator and activist. He was a member of the Iranian Writers Association, a group who ...

(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 (; 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 Dictionary and Encyclopædia Iran ...

, scholar and writer (محمدامین ریاحی) *

Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (, also Romanization, Romanized as "Mohammad–Reza Shafi'i Kadkani") (born 10 October 1939) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian writer, poet, critic, literary critic, editing, editor, and translator.Mohammad-Taghi Bahar Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (; also romanised as Mohammad-Taqī Bahār; 10 December 1886 in Mashhad – 22 April 1951 in Tehran), widely known as Malek osh-Sho'arā () and Malek osh-Sho'arā Bahār ("poet laureate," literally: ''the king of poets''), ...

, poet(محمد تقی بهار) * Monica Malek-Yonan, playwright *

Morteza Motahhari Morteza Motahhari (; 31 January 1919 – 1 May 1979) was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on the ideologies of the Islamic Republic, among others. He was a co-found ...

, theologian (مرتضی مطهری) *

Muhammad Faizullah Mufti Faizullah (), was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, mufti, poet, educator and a reformer. He was among early students to study at the Darul Uloom Hathazari. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband and later served as the Chief Mufti ...

, Bengali poet (محمد فيض الله) *

Muhammad Iqbal Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 187721 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

, Pakistani poet (محمد اقبال) *

Nader Naderpour Nader Naderpour (June 6, 1929 – February 18, 2000; ) was an Iranian poet. Among many Iranian poets who shaped up the New Persian Poetry or New Poetry (in Persian: ''She'r-e Now''), Ali Esfandiari aka Nima Yooshij, Parviz Natel Khanlari, Nader ...

, poet (نادر نادرپور) *

Nima Yushij Nima Yooshij or Nimā Yushij (; 11 November 1895 – 6 January 1960), also called Nimā (), born Ali Esfandiari (), was a prominent Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularised, called ''she'r-e now'' (, lit. "new po ...

, poet (نیما یوشیج) * Nosrat Rahmani, poet (نصرت رحمانی) *

Parvin E'tesami Rakhshandeh E'tesami (, ''Raḵšanda Eʿteṣāmī''; 17 March 1907 – 4 April 1941), better known as Parvin E'tesami (), was a 20th-century Iranian Persian language, Persian poet. Life Parvin E'tesami was born on 17 March 1907 in Tabriz to M ...

, poet (پروین اعتصامی) * Rahi Mo'ayeri, poet (رهی معیری) * Reza Baraheni, poet and critic (رضا براهنی) *

Reza Khoshnazar Reza Khoshbin-e Khoshnazar () is an Iranian novelist who published his first novel, '' The Gods Laugh on Mondays'' in 1995 when he was in his twenties.Newsweek, October, 1995, page 37. The reaction was hot and some conservative papers accused him of ...

, 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 Roya Hakakian (; born 1966) is an Iranian American Jewish journalist, lecturer, and writer. Born in Iran, she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the author of several books, including an acclaimed memoi ...

, poet, writer, journalist (رویا حکاکیان) * Saboktakin Saloor, novelist * Sadegh Choubak, writer (صادق چوبک) *

Sadegh Hedayat Sadegh Hedayat (, ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian writer, translator, satirist, and poet. Best known for his novel ''The Blind Owl'', he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in ...

(صادق هدایت) *

Sadriddin Ayni Sadriddin Ayni (, , ; 15 April 1878 – 15 July 1954) was a Tajik intellectual who wrote poetry, fiction, journalism, history, and a dictionary. He is regarded by Tajiks as Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers in the ...

(صدرالدين عيني), Tajikistan's national poet and one of the most important writers of the country's history. *

Saeed Nafisi Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (; June 8, 1895 – November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian. Nafisi was born in Tehran, where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, l ...

, scholar, poet and writer * Sahar Delijani, novelist (سحر دلیجانی) * Samad Behrangi, writer (صمد بهرنگی) * Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh, writer (سید مرتضی حمیدزاده) Seyed-morteza-hamidzadeh

* Seyed Ali Salehi, poet *

Sems Kesmai Sems Kesmai (March 4, 1884 – November 3, 1961; ) was an Iranian poet known for her innovations in Persian modernist poetry. Biography Sems Kesmai was born 1884 in Yazd, Iran. Her father was an immigrant from Georgia, and her family was broad ...

, poet (شمس کسمایی) *

Shahrnush Parsipur Shahrnush Parsipur (; 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. degree in 1973 in sociology from T ...

, novelist (شهرنوش پارسی‌پور) * Shams Langeroodi, poet (شمس لنگرودی) * Shamim Hashimi, poet and writer (شمیم ہاشمی) * Shapour Bonyad, poet (شاپور بنیاد) *

Sheema Kalbasi Sheema Kalbasi (Persian: شیما کلباسی; born November 20, 1972, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Danish-American poet and writer who addresses issues of feminism, war, refugees, human rights, and freedom of expression. She is also a filmmaker ...

, poet and translator (شیما کلباسی) * Siavash Kasraie poet (سیاوش کسرایی) *

Simin Behbahani Simin Behbahani, her surname also appears as Bihbahani (née Siminbar Khalili; ; 20 July 1927 – 19 August 2014) was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet, lyricist, and activist. Renowned for her mastery of the ghazal, a traditional poetic for ...

, poet (سیمین بهبهانی) *

Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar (‎; 28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer, and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the lives of ordinary Iranians, ...

, writer (سیمین دانشور) * Sipandi Samarkandi, Tajik bilingual poet *

Sohrab Sepehri Sohrab Sepehri ( 7 October 1928 – 21 April 1980; ) was a notable Iranian poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the five most famous Iranian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhav ...

, poet and painter (سهراب سپهری) *

Syed Waheed Ashraf Syed Waheed Ashraf (born 4 February 1933) is an Indian Sufi scholar and poet in Persian and Urdu. Education and career Ashraf received his B.A., M.A. and PhD (1965) degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. The title of his doctoral dissertat ...

, Poet, Sufi, Scholar, Critic * Syed Abid Ali Abid Poet and Author * Temur Zulfiqorov, Tajik poet (Temur Zulfiqorov) * Varand, poet (واراند) * Yadollah Royaee, poet (یدالله رویایی) *

Hossein Rajabian Hossein Rajabian (; 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 is an anti-censorship filmmaker and defender of freedom of speech ...

, 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 (play), 'Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. ...

, poet (یاسمینا رضا) * Zoya Pirzad novelist (زویا پیرزاد) *

Niloufar Talebi Niloufar Talebi () 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, Cal Performances, Atlanta Symp ...

(نیلوفر طالبی) *

Sholeh Wolpé Sholeh Wolpé (; born 1962) is an Iranian-born American poet, playwright, librettist, and literary translator. She was born in Iran and grew up there until the age of 13. After that she lived in Trinidad and England during her teenage years befo ...

poet, playwright (شعله ولپی) * Iraj Zebardast, poet (ايرج زبردست)

References

, ''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. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Persian poets

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