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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 Rudaki (also spelled Rodaki; fa, رودکی; 858 – 940/41) was a Persian poet, singer and musician, who served as a court poet under the Samanids. He is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian. Said to have composed more tha ...

(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

(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 mono ...

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 Abū Saʿīd Abū'l-Khayr or Abusa'id Abolkhayr ( fa, ابوسعید ابوالخیر) , also known as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed, was a famous Persian Sufi and poet who contributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi tradition. The majo ...

ابوسعید ابوالخیر *

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 of Iran, the Shahnameh, but ...

ابومنصور دقیقی *

منصور حلاج *

Unsuri Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi ( fa, ابوالقاسم حسن عنصری بلخی; died 1039/1040) was a 10–11th century Persian poet. ‘Unṣurī is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poe ...

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 literatu ...

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 Abu Shakur Balkhi ( fa, ابوشکور بلخی; 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 ''masnavis'', the work ''Āfarin nama'' (written in 944) ...

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 poet ...

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 ( ...

خواجه عبدالله انصاری *

Li Shunxian Li Shunxian 李舜弦 (c. 900 – 926, Sichuan) was a Chinese poet celebrated for her beauty and poetic talent. She was a concubine of Wang Yan (Wang Zongyan), the Chinese Emperor of Former Shu. She was famous for being a Chinese woman of Persian ...

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

Wang Zongyan Wang Yan (王衍) (899–926), né Wang Zongyan (王宗衍), courtesy name Huayuan (化源), also known as Houzhu (後主, "later Lord"), later posthumously created the Duke of Shunzheng (順正公) by Later Tang, was the second and final emperor o ...

)

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 ...

(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 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 elegies ...

(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 s ...

Omar Khayyám Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam ( fa, عمر خیّام), was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, ...

, 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 1 ...

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

Hujviri Abu 'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī (c. 1009-1072/77), known as ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or al-Hujwīrī (also spelt Hajweri, Hajveri, or Hajvery) for short, or reverentially as Shaykh Syed ʿAlī al- ...

d1073 *

Abdul Qadir Gilani ʿAbdul Qādir Gīlānī, ( ar, عبدالقادر الجيلاني, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī; fa, ) known by admirers as Muḥyī l-Dīn Abū Muḥammad b. Abū Sāliḥ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī al-Baḡdādī al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusayn ...

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 Abūʾl-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī ( fa, ابوالفضل محمد بن حسین بیهقی; died September 21, 1077), better known as Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqi (; also spelled Beyhaqi), was a Persian secretary, historian and author. Educ ...

, historian * Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi *

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 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 into t ...

Abu-al-faraj Runi Abul Faraj Runi ( fa, ابوالفرج رونی), born in Lahore, was an 11th-century Persian court poet who wrote '' Mathnawi''. His family came from Nishapur in Khorasan. He was a contemporary of Masud Sa'ad Salman. He died at the turn of the 1 ...

* Keykavus Eskandar *

Nizam al-Mulk Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali Tusi (April 10, 1018 – October 14, 1092), better known by his honorific title of Nizam al-Mulk ( fa, , , Order of the Realm) was a Persian scholar, jurist, political philosopher and Vizier of the Seljuk Empire. Rising ...

, 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 m ...

* Azraqi *

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 Abū ‘Umar ‘Uthmān b. ‘Umar Mukhtārī Ghaznavī (born c. 467/1074-75, died 513×15/1118×21) was a Persian poet of the Ghaznavids, an empire originating from Ghazna located in Afghanistan. He had patrons at the courts of the Qarakhānids ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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

12th century

* Suzani Samarqandi, 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 ( fa, اوحدالدین علی ابن محمد انوری) was a Persian poet. Anvarī was born in Abivard (now in Turkmenistan) and died i ...

انوری ابیوردی *

Farid al-Din Attar Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; fa, ابو حامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn () and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (, Attar means apothecary), was a PersianRitter, H. ...

, poet (about 1130-about 1220) فریدالدین عطار نیشاپوری * Nizami, poet (about 1140-about 1203) نظامی *

Sheikh Ruzbehan Abu Muhammad Sheikh Ruzbehan Baqli (1128–1209) was a Persian poet, mystic, teacher and sufi master. He wrote about his own life as well as published commentaries on Sufi poets and ideas. Baqli's most renowned work was his autobiography ''Unv ...

شیخ روزبهان *

عبدالقادر گیلانی *

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

خاقانی شروانی * Sanaayi سنایی *

Sheikh Ahmad Jami Ahmad Ibn Abolhasan Jāmi-e Nāmaghi-e Torshizi ( fa, احمد ابن ابوالحسن جامی نامقی ترشیزی) (born Namagh (now Kashmar), Persia, 1048 – died Torbat-e Jam, 1141) better known as Sheikh Ahhmad-e Jami or Sheikh Ahmad ...

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

* Ibn Balkhi *

Mahsati Mahsati ( fa, مهستی, Māhsatī) 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 ...

, 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 Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( fa, جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā ( fa, مولانا, lit= our master) and Mevlevî/Mawlawī ( fa, مولوی, lit= my ma ...

, 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 fo ...

* 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 Il ...

, (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 re ...

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 ...

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 ...

* 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 Awhadi Maraghei (also spelled Auhadi; fa, اوحدی مراغه‌ای) (1274/75–1338) was a Persian people, Persian Sufi poet primarily based in Azerbaijan (Iran), Azerbaijan during the rule of the Mongol Empire, Mongol Ilkhanate. He is ...

* Auhaduddin Kermani *

Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din Ghiyas may refer to: * Ghiyas, Iran Qiasi ( fa, قياسي, also Romanized as Qīāsī; also known as Ghiyas, Kiās, Qayās, Qeyās Bālā, Qīās, and Qīās-e Bālā) is a village in Qarah Quyun-e Jonubi Rural District, Qarah Quyun District, Sh ...

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 As ...

Abu Tawwama Sharaf ad-Dīn Abū Tawʾamah ( ar, شرف ٱلدِّيْن أبُو تَوْأَمَة, bn, আবু তাওয়ামা) was an Islamic scholar, author and muhaddith based in the subcontinent. He played a large role in disseminating Isl ...

(died 1300)

14th century

Hafez Khwāje Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shiraz, Shīrāzī ( fa, خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمّد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (, ''Ḥāfeẓ'', 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) and as "H ...

, 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 su ...

, 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 t ...

, میر سید علی ابن شہاب الدین ہمدانی - Islamic preacher traveller and poet (1314–1384) * Kamal Khujandi, poet, Sufism (1321–1401) *

Shahin Shirazi Shāhin-i Shirāzi ( fa, شاهین شیرازی, born in Shiraz in the Ilkhanate, now in Iran) was a Persian Jewish poet in the 14th century. Biography The details surrounding his biography are not clear. It is known that he worked during the re ...

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 ov ...

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

Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah Ghiyasuddin A'zam Shah ( bn, গিয়াসউদ্দীন আজম শাহ, fa, ) was the third Sultan of Bengal and the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. He was one of the most prominent medieval Bengali sultans. He established diplomatic relati ...

, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with

Shah Nimatullah Wali Shāh Nimatullāh or Shāh Ni'matullāh Wali, ( fa, شاه نعمت‌الله ولی ''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 th ...

Nur Qutb Alam Nūr Quṭb ʿĀlam ( ar, , bn, নূর কুতুব আলম) 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 schol ...

, 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 'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī ( Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, fa, نظام‌الدین علی‌شیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer ...

, poet (1441–1501) * Badriddin Hilali, poet (1470–1529) * Imrani, poet (1454–1536) *

Fuzûlî Mahammad bin Suleyman ( Classical Azerbaijani: ), better known by his pen name Fuzuli ( az-Arab, فضولی ; ; * ota, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی ; * fa, محمد بن سلیمان فضولی . – 1556), was a 16th century p ...

, poet (1494–1556) فضولی

16th century

* Muhammad Arshad, Bengali author * Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620) *

Syed Pir Badshah Syed Pīr Bādshāh ( bn, সৈয়দ পীর বাদশাহ, fa, سید پیر بادشاه), was a late medieval Bengali Sufi saint and author of Taraf. He is best known for writing ''Ganj-e-Taraz'' in the Persian language. Early l ...

, Bengali author *

Vahshi Bafghi Vahshi Bafghi ( fa, وحشی بافقی, Vahshi Bāfghi) was a Persian poet of the Safavid era, considered to be one of the greatest of his generation. Biography Vahshi was born in 1532 in Bafq, an agrarian town near the provincial capital of Ya ...

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 Syed Shah Isra'il ( bn, সৈয়দ শাহ ইসরাইল, fa, ), also known as Shah Bondegi ( bn, শাহ বন্দেগী, fa, ; lit. ''King of Worship''), was a 16th-century Persian language writer from Bengal. He is celeb ...

, 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 and ...

(Tahmuras Khan) * Syed Rayhan ad-Din, Bengali poet

17th century

Shah Abdur Rahim Shah Abdur Rahim ( fa, ; 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 dis ...

, 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 Islami ...

, Indian religious leader *

(Tahmuras Khan) * Saib Tabrizi, poet (1601/02-1677) * Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil (1642–1720) *

Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh (; 22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708), born Gobind Das or Gobind Rai the tenth Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet and philosopher. When his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was executed by Aurangzeb, Guru Gobind ...

(1666–1708) - Composed the famous Zafarnamah * Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi (1637–1702) * Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (

1546 Year 1546 ( 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 clan, in their att ...

–

1620 Events January–June * February 4 – Prince Bethlen Gabor signs a peace treaty with Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. * May 17 – The first merry-go-round is seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey). * June 3 – The ...

) *

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 Gani Kashmiri (; born Muhammad Tahir Gani Ashai; c. 1669), was a Persian-language poet. His uncertain authorship, including gazals and 100,000 verses, consist of some single tazmins, ninety-two rubaʿis, two maṯnavis, and one twenty-eight ...

(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 Sufi order which emerged from a tradition of violent backlash against the ...

, 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 m ...

, 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 Mīrzā Lutfullāh Khān Tabrīzī ( fa, , bn, মীর্জা লুৎফুল্লাহ তবরীজী), also known as Murshid Qulī Khān II, was an 18th-century administrator who served under the Nawabs of Bengal as the Naib Nazim ...

(لطف‌الله تبریزی) *

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Kala Mahal, Agra, Maratha Confederacy , death_date = , death_place = Gali Qasim Jaan, Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, Delhi, British India , occupation = Poet , language ...

, (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 Maulawi Āghā Aḥmad ʿAlī ( fa, آغا احمد علي, bn, আগা আহমদ আলী) was a 19th-century Bengali academic, historian and scholar of the Persian language. In addition to Persian, he also composed poetry in Urdu. He i ...

, 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 pu ...

, linguist and journalist علی اکبر دهخدا *

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

Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat ( fa, رضاقلی خان هدایت; 8 June 1800 – 29 June 1871) was a Persian literary historian, administrator, and poet in 19th-century Qajar Iran. Biography Hedayat was born in Tehran on 8 June 1800 to a renowned f ...

, poet and historian رضا قلی خان هدایت *

Iraj Mirza Prince Iraj Mirza ( fa, ایرج میرزا, literally ''Prince Iraj''; October 1874 – 14 March 1926) (titled Jalāl-ol-Mamālek, fa, جلال‌الممالک), son of prince Gholam-Hossein Mirza, was a famous Iranian poet. He was a modern p ...

ایرج میرزا * Nassakh, Bengali poet (نساخ) *

Ebrahim Poordavood Ibrahim (also spelled Ibraheem) ( ar, إبراهيم, ) is the Arabic name of the prophet and patriarch Abraham and one of Allah's messengers in the Quran. It is a common first name and surname among Muslims and Arab Christians, a cognate of ...

, 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 Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi ( fa, میرزا محمد فرخی یزدی; 1889 – October 18, 1939), also known as Taj osh-Sho'arā (تاج الشعرا), was an Iranian poet, journalist and senior politician of the Perisan Constitutional Revo ...

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 Be ...

, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet (خواجه احسن‌الله) * Khwaja Muhammad Afzal, Kashmiri-Dhakaiya poet (خواجه محمد افضل) *

Sheyda Gerashi Mohammadjafar Khan Gerashi ( fa, محمدجعفر خان گراشی), son of Rostam Khan Gerashi and grandson of Fathali Khan Gerashi, known as Moghtader-ol-Mamalek ( fa, مقتدرالممالک) and better known as his pen-name Sheyda ( fa, ش ...

, poet and Panegyrist شیدای گراشی *

Qaani Mirza Habibollah Shirazi, known as Qaani ( fa, قاآنی‎, 20 October 1808 – 4 May 1854) was one of the most famous poets of the Qajar era. He was born in 1808 in Shiraz, where he attended elementary school. At an early age, Qaani went to ...

قاآنی * Abd al-Hosayn Ayati, poet, orator, author and historian عبدالحسین آیتی *

Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy ( ar, عبيد الله العبيدي السهروردي, bn, ওবায়দুল্লাহ আল ওবায়দী সোহরাওয়ার্দী; 1832 – 9 February 1885) was a Bengali ...

, Bengali poet (عبید الله العبیدی سهروردی)

20th century

* Ali Abdolrezaei (علی عبدالرضایی) *

Abdolali Dastgheib ʻAbd al-ʻAlī (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد العلي) is a male Muslim given name. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-ʻAlī'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It ...

, Author (عبدالعلی دست غیب) *

Abdumalik Bahori Abdumalik Bahori ( tg, Абдумалик Баҳорӣ, 22 March 1927 Leninabad, USSR - 3 December 2010, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officia ...

, Tajik-Persian poet *

Abdolkarim Soroush Abdolkarim Soroush ( ; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; fa, حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of philo ...

, philosopher *

Abolghasem Lahouti Abolqāsem Lahūtī (russian: Абулькасим Ахмедзаде Лахути, Abuljkasim Ahmedzade Lahuti; tg, Абулқосим Лоҳутӣ / ابوالقاسم لاهوتی, Aʙulqosim Lohutī; 12 October 1887 – 16 March 1957) was ...

, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی) *

Adib Boroumand Adib Boroumand (or Adīb Borūmand) ( fa, ادیب برومند; 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 ...

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

Ahmad Kamyabi Mask Ahmad Kamyabi Mask ( fa, احمد کامیابی مَسْک; 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 schol ...

, 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 Irani ...

(احمد کسروی) *

Ahmad NikTalab Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ...

(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 Ahmad Shamlou ( fa, احمد شاملو, ''Ahmad Šāmlū'' , also known under his pen name A. Bamdad ( fa, ا. بامداد)) (December 12, 1925 – July 23, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most infl ...

(احمد شاملو), poet Ahmad Shamlou

, linguist (علی اکبر دهخدا) *

Ali Mohammad Afghani Ali Mohammad Afghani ( fa, علی محمد افغانی, born 1 January 1925) is an Iranian writer. His father is from Tiran and Karvan, one of the counties of Isfahan province. Biography Veteran contemporary writer, Ali Mohammad Afghani was ...

, 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 intel ...

, sociologist and theologian (علی شریعتی) *

, (عارف قزوینی) *

Asad Gulzoda Asad Gulov, also known as Asad Gulzodai Bukhoroyi or Asad Gulzoda ( tg, Асад Гулзодаи Бухороӣ) is a Tajik poet, linguist and journalist. Life Asad Gulzoda was born in 1935 in the village of Shavgon of Peshku District, Bukhara ...

, poet *

Aziz Motazedi Aziz Motazedi ( fa, عزیز معتضدی, born August 10, 1950, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian novelist and essayist. He has lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, since 1995. Motazedi has also written critical articles on politics as well as the l ...

, novelist (عزیز معتضدی) * Bahman Sholevar, writer and poet (بهمن شعله ور) *

Bahram Bayzai Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, fa, بهرام بیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ''ostad, ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian s ...

, playwright (بهرام بیضایی) Bahram Bayzai

Bijan Elahi Bijan Elahi ( fa, بیژن الهی; ; 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 poetry movement in Iran called ''The Other Poetry'' () ...

, poet and translator * Bilal Yousaf, writer, critic *

Bozor Sobir Bozor Sobir (20 November 1938 – 1 May 2018) was a preeminent Tajik poet and politician, known as the national poet of Tajikistan and 'the conscience of the nation'. Sobir established his reputation during the Soviet era. His poems, books, an ...

, poet (بازارصابر) *

Bozorg Alavi Bozorg Alavi ( fa, بزرگ علوی) (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 th ...

, (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 Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi ( fa, سید ابراهیم نبوی; born 1958 in Astara, Iran) is a prolific Iranian satirist, writer, diarist, and researcher. He currently writes in the news website '' Gooya'' and the online newspaper '' Rooz'', and ...

, satirist (ابراهیم نبوی) *

Ehsan Naraghi Ehsān Narāghi (2 February 1926 – 2 December 2012) was an Iranian sociologist, writer and Farah Pahlavi adviser Biography During his high school he went to Dar ol-Fonoon in Tehran. Then he studied sociology in the University of Geneva ...

, Scholar, sociologist and writer *

Esmail Khoi Esmail Khoi ( fa, اسماعیل خویی; 30 June 1938 – 25 May 2021) was an Iranian poet and writer. He was living in the United Kingdom after being exiled from Iran during the 1980s. Khoi was originally a lecturer in Philosophy before the Iran ...

, Poet *

Ezzat Goushegir Ezzat Goushegir (Persian: عزت گوشه‌گیر) is a fiction writer and playwright born in Iran and living in the U.S. since 1986. She has published four books in Persian, including two collections of short stories. She began her playwriting ...

* Farzona, poet (Фарзона/فرزانه) * Farzaneh Aghaeipour (فرزانه آقایی‌پور) * Fereidoon Tavallali, poet (فریدون توللی) *

Fereshteh Ahmadi Fereshteh Ahmadi ( fa, فرشته احمدی; born 1972) is an Iranian novelist, short story writer, literary critic and editor. Life Born in 1972, Fereshteh Ahmadi is a graduate of architecture from The University of Tehran The University o ...

, 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 been ...

, 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 ...

, poet (فروغ فرخزاد) *

Ghazaleh Alizadeh Ghazaleh Alizadeh ( fa, غزاله علیزاده ); 15 February 1949 – 12 May 1996) was an Iranian poet and writer. Her mother was also a poet and writer. She married twice; she and her husband Bijan Elahi had a daughter called Salma. She a ...

, novelist (غزاله علیزاده) * Gholam Hossein Saedi, 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 stu ...

, 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", ...

, Tajik poet *

Hamid Mosadegh Hamid Mosadegh ( fa, حمید مصدق, January 31, 1940 – 28 November 1998) was an Iranian poet, author and lawyer. Biography He was born in Shahreza, a town close to Isfahan, but some time later his family moved to Isfahan, where Mosaddegh c ...

(حمید مصدق) * Hassan Roshdieh (حسن رشدیه) *

Heydar Yaghma Heydar Yaghma ( fa, حیدر یغما; 1926 – March 1986) was an Iranian poet. He was born in a village near Nishapur Nishapur or officially Romanized as Neyshabur ( fa, ;Or also "نیشاپور" which is closer to its original and his ...

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

Houshang Golshiri Houshang Golshiri ( fa, هوشنگ گلشیری; 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 ...

(هوشنگ گلشیری) * Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی) *

Hushang Ebtehaj Amir Hushang Ebtehaj ( fa, امیر هوشنگ ابتهاج; 25 February 1928 – 10 August 2022), also known by his pen name H. E. Sayeh ( fa, ه.ا.سایه, lit. ''Shadow''), was an Iranian poet of the 20th century, whose life and work spans ...

(H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج) *

Ibrahim Ali Tashna Shāh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ʿAlī ( bn, শাহ মোহাম্মদ ইবরাহীম আলী; 1872 – 11 September 1931) was a Bengali Islamic scholar, poet and activist of the Khilafat Movement. He wrote poetry in the Bengali, ...

, Bengali poet (تشنه) * Ismail Alam, Bengali poet (اسماعیل عالم) *

, 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 (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 Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ( fa, محمود دولت‌آبادی, ''Mahmud Dowlatâbâdi'') (born 1 August 1940 in Dowlatabad, Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and ...

(محمود دولت آبادی) *

Mahmoud Melmasi - Azarm Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name (), common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root Ḥ-M-D, meaning ''praise'', along with '' Muhammad''. Siam Mahmud * Mahmood (singer) (bor ...

, 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 (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 Maryam Jafari Azarmani ( fa, مریم جعفری آذرمانی, born 25 November 1977) is an Iranian poet, literary critic, and translator. Biography Azarmani began writing poetry in 1996. She has published several books of poetry since 20 ...

(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 Mina Assadi ( fa, مینا اسدی; born March 12, 1943) is an Iranian-born poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden. Author She is known for writing about controversial and provocative subjects, especi ...

, poet, author, journalist and songwriter (مینا اسدی) *

Mina Dastgheib Mina Dastgheib is a contemporary poet born in Shiraz in 1943 and graduated from Shiraz University and Tehran University. Mina taught English and Persian literature at high schools in Tehran and Shiraz. Mina has been writing poetry since she was ...

, 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 Mohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani ( fa, محمدعلی جمالزاده اصفهانی; 13 January 1892 in Isfahan, Iran – 8 November 1997 in Geneva, Switzerland) was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known fo ...

, 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. H ...

, 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, fa, محمد جعفر پوینده) (7 June 1954 – 8 or 9 December 1998) was an Iranian writer, translator and activist. He was a member of the Irania ...

(محمد جعفر پوینده) * Mohammad Mokhtari(محمد مختاری) *

Mohammad Reza Ali Payam (Haloo) MohammadReza Alee Payam ( fa, محمدرضا عالی‌پیام, born June 10, 1957), also known by his pen name as Halloo ( fa, هالو), is an Iranian poet and satirist. He has published ten volumes of books of satire poems and more than 10 ...

, poet (محمدرضا عالی‌پیام) *

Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani ( fa, محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی, also Romanized as "Mohammad–Reza Shafi'i Kadkani") (born 10 October 1939) is an Iranian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator.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 Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani ( fa, محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی, also Romanized as "Mohammad–Reza Shafi'i Kadkani") (born 10 October 1939) is an Iranian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator.Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار) * Monica Malek-Yonan, playwright *

Morteza Motahhari Morteza Motahhari ( fa, مرتضی مطهری, also Romanized as "Mortezā Motahharī"; 31 January 1919 – 1 May 1979) was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on ...

, theologian (مرتضی مطهری) * Muhammad Faizullah, 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 philoso ...

, Pakistani poet (محمد اقبال) *

Nader Naderpour Nader Naderpour ( fa, نادر نادرپور; 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, P ...

, poet (نادر نادرپور) * Nima Yushij, poet (نیما یوشیج) *

Nosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی; in Persian; (March 1, 1930 – June 16, 2000)http://www.aftabir.com/news/view/2006/feb/19/c5c1140344995_art_culture_literature_verse.php/نصرت-رحمانی-و-شعرهای-چاپ-نشده was an Ira ...

, poet (نصرت رحمانی) *

Parvin E'tesami Parvin E'tesami (1907 – April 5, 1941) also known as Rakhshandeh Etesami ( fa, رخشنده اعتصامی), and Parvin Etesami ( fa, پروین اعتصامی), was an Iranian 20th-century Persian poet. Life Parvin E'tesami was born in 1907 ...

, poet (پروین اعتصامی) * Rahi Mo'ayeri, poet (رهی معیری) * Reza Baraheni, poet and critic (رضا براهنی) * Reza Khoshnazar, 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 , birth_date = ca. 1966 , birth_place = Tehran, Iran , death_date = , death_place = , occupation = , language = Persian, English , nationality = , citizenship = American , education = , alma_mater = Brooklyn College, , period = ...

, poet, writer, journalist (رویا حکاکیان) *

Saboktakin Saloor Saboktakin Saloor (October 26, 1923 – November 8, 1991) was an Iranian journalist and historical novelist. He also wrote many popular serialized radio and television programs. Life and works His novels, which include ''Ghorbangah'', ''Bedoone ...

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

(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 Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) ( fa, سعید نفیسی; 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 proje ...

, scholar, poet and writer * Sahar Delijani, novelist (سحر دلیجانی) *

Samad Behrangi Samad Behrangi ( fa, صمد بهرنگی; June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1968) was an Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particu ...

, writer (صمد بهرنگی) * 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 broa ...

, poet (شمس کسمایی) * Shahrnush Parsipur, novelist (شهرنوش پارسی‌پور) *

Shams Langeroodi Mohammad Shams Langeroodi ( fa, محمد شمس لنگرودی) (born November 17, 1950) is one of the most celebrated contemporary Iranian poet, actor, singer, author and university lecturer. He has researched extensively on different periods o ...

, poet (شمس لنگرودی) * Shamim Hashimi, poet and writer (شمیم ہاشمی) *

Shapour Bonyad Shahpour Bonyad (1947, Shiraz – 2000, Shiraz) was an Iranian poet. Biography He studied cinematography in France. A few months after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Bonyad returned to Iran but because of his political beliefs could not continue his ...

, poet (شاپور بنیاد) * Sheema Kalbasi, poet and translator (شیما کلباسی) *

Siavash Kasraie Siavash Kasrai ( fa, سیاوش کسرائی; February 25, 1927 – February 8, 1996) was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist. He is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s. An active supporter of ...

poet (سیاوش کسرایی) *

Simin Behbahani Simin Behbahani, her surname also appears as Bihbahani (née Siminbar Khalili; fa, سیمین بهبهانی; 20 July 1927 – 19 August 2014) was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet, lyricist and activist. She is known for her poems in a ghaz ...

, poet (سیمین بهبهانی) *

Simin Daneshvar Simin Dāneshvar ( fa, سیمین دانشور)‎ (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 ...

, writer (سیمین دانشور) *

Sipandi Samarkandi Mulla Abdulkarim Sipandi Samarqandi (1829–1909) was a Tajik bilingual poet. He lived in Samarkand, in current-day Uzbekistan. His work consists of ''ghazal'', ''qit'a'', ''mukhammas'', and '' ruba'i'', which were written in the Tajik languag ...

, Tajik bilingual poet *

Sohrab Sepehri Sohrab Sepehri ( fa, سهراب سپهری; October 7, 1928 – April 21, 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, Ahm ...

, 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 Ashra ...

, Poet, Sufi, Scholar, Critic * Syed Abid Ali Abid Poet and Author *

Temur Zulfiqorov Timur Zulfiqorov ( Russian/Tajik:Тимур Зульфикаров/Темур Зулфиқоров) (born 17 August 1936) is a Russian / Tajik poet, playwright, and novelist. He was born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, То ...

, Tajik poet (Темур Зулфиқоров) *

Varand Soukias Hacob Koorkchian ( hy, Սուքիաս Յակոբ Գուրքջեան; fa, سوکیاس هاکوب کورکجیان, born March 10, 1954, in Tehran),better known by his pen name Varand ( hy, Վարանդ) is an Iranian poet, playwright ...

, poet (واراند) varand2

Yadollah Royaee Yadollah Royaee ( fa, یدالله رؤیایی; 7 May 1932 – 12 September 2022) was an Iranian poet of the New Wave or the Poem of Imagination in Iranian Modern Literature. Life and career Royaee was born in Damqan, Semnan Province, Iran on ...

, 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 bl ...

, poet (یاسمینا رضا) * Zana Pirzad novelist (زانا پیرزاد) * Niloufar Talebi (نیلوفر طالبی) *

Sholeh Wolpé Sholeh Wolpé ( fa, شعله ولپی) is an American poet, playwright, and literary translator. She was born in Iran, and lived in Trinidad and England during her teenage years, before settling in the United States. Biography Sholeh Wolpé ...

poet, playwright (شعله ولپی) *

Iraj Zebardast Iraj Zebardast (ايرج زبردست in Persian) is an Iranian poet mostly known for his quatrains. He was born in Shiraz. Works * Everyone's in love when it rains * Wet Smiles * A basket of mirrors * Another life of passing day * My letters ...

, 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 Kaiser Aminpour (1959-2007; fa, قیصر امین‌پور) was an Iranian poet. Aminpour was one of the several distinguished poets who can be considered the founder of post-Revolution Iranian poetry. Biography Aminpour was born in Gatvand near D ...

قیصر امین‌پور (Romanized: Ğeysar AminPur) * Mohammad Hanif (Iranian writer), novelist and literary scholar محمد حنیف7

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 Mohammad Mokhtari ( fa, محمد مختاری ) (April 21, 1942 – December 3, 1998) was an Iranian writer, poet and left-wing activist. He was an active member of the Iranian Writers Association, a group that had been long banned in Iran du ...

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Persian Poets And Authors *List * * Iranian people by occupation

Poets 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 simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

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