Persian poets
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The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets from Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and India
9th century
- RudakiRudakiAbu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki , also written as Rudagi , was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the "New Persian" alphabet. Rudaki is considered as a founder of Persian classical literature.He was born in 858 in...
(رودکی) - Mansur Al-HallajMansur Al-HallajMansur al-Hallaj was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and pious teacher of Sufism most famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and for his execution at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation.-Early life:Al-Hallaj was born around 858 in Fars...
(منصور حلاج) - Shahid BalkhiShahid Balkhi' was a Persian theologian, philosopher, poet and sufi. Famous persian poet Rudaki has a poem in Balkhi's elegy. He was born in Balkh. Shahid Balkhi was contemporary to Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi and they had connections...
(ابوالحسن شهيدبن حسين جهودانکي بلخی)
10th century
- FerdowsiFerdowsiFerdowsi was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies.The Shahnameh was originally composed by Ferdowsi for the princes of the Samanid dynasty, who were responsible for a revival of Persian cultural traditions after the...
فردوسی - Taleb AmoliTaleb Amoli-Bioghraphy:Sayyed Mohammad Taleb-e-Amoliand died in Kashmir, India .Taleb was one of the most distressed poets in the Sibk e Hindi Indian poetry, and had taken refuge in India. He was very skilful in mathematics, astronomy, wisdom, and philosophy in Indian style...
طالب آملی - Abusaeid AbolkheirAbusaeid AbolkheirAbusa'id Abolkhayr or Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr , 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....
ابوسعید ابوالخیر - RudakiRudakiAbu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki , also written as Rudagi , was a Persian poet, and is regarded as the first great literary genius of the Modern Persian, who composed poems in the "New Persian" alphabet. Rudaki is considered as a founder of Persian classical literature.He was born in 858 in...
رودکی - Abu Mansur DaqiqiAbu Mansur DaqiqiAbu Mansur Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Daqiqi Balkhi , sometimes referred to as Daqiqi , was an early Persian poet from Tus in Iran or in Balkh, located in modern-day Afghanistan....
ابومنصور دقیقی - Mansur Al-HallajMansur Al-HallajMansur al-Hallaj was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and pious teacher of Sufism most famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and for his execution at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation.-Early life:Al-Hallaj was born around 858 in Fars...
منصور حلاج - UnsuriUnsuriAbul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi was a 10-11th century Persian poet.He is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court, and was given the title Malik-us Shu'ara .His Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which only...
عنصری - Rabi'a Balkhi رابعه بلخی
- AsjadiAsjadiAbu Nazar Abdul Aziz ibn Mansur Asjadi was a 10th century and 11th century royal Persian poet of Ghaznavid empire located in Ghazni province of current Afghanistan....
عسجدی - Farrukhi SistaniFarrukhi SistaniAbul Hasan Ali ibn Julugh Farrukhi Sistani was a 10th- and 11th-century royal poet of Ghaznavids.As an ethnic Persian, he was one of the brightest masters of the panegyric school of poetry in the court of Mahmud of Ghazni...
فرخی سیستانی - Kisai MarvaziKisai MarvaziAbul Hasan Abu Ishaq Kisa'i Marvazi was a 10th century poet of Persia.Born in 953 CE and originating from Merv, he paid flattery first and foremost to the courts of the Samanids, but also to the Abbasids and Ghaznavids, particularly Mahmud of Ghazni....
کسائی مروزی - Abu Shakur BalkhiAbu Shakur BalkhiAbu Shakur Balkhi was a Persian poet of the 10th century in Samanid era, an empire originating from Balkh.He was a contemporary of Rudaki, and wrote three mathnavis, the work Āfarin nama among them. Only one hundred ninety-two scraps of his verses remain today.-References:* E.G. Browne. Literary...
ابوشکور بلخی - AyyuqiAyyuqiAyyuqi was a 10th century poet of Persia. A contemporary of Mahmud of Ghazni, he wrote the epic Varqa u Gulshah. His works are characterized by paired rhyme interspersed with ghazal.-References:...
عیوقی - Mahsati Ganjavi مِهسَتی گنجوی
- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari خواجه عبدالله انصاری
11th century
- Asad GorganiAsad GorganiFakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani , was an 11th-century Persian poet. He versified the story of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Arsacid period. Contemporary scholar Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub however disagrees with this view, and concludes that the story has a...
- AsjadiAsjadiAbu Nazar Abdul Aziz ibn Mansur Asjadi was a 10th century and 11th century royal Persian poet of Ghaznavid empire located in Ghazni province of current Afghanistan....
- FerdowsiFerdowsiFerdowsi was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran and related societies.The Shahnameh was originally composed by Ferdowsi for the princes of the Samanid dynasty, who were responsible for a revival of Persian cultural traditions after the...
, poet (925925Year 925 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Alfonso IV the Monk becomes king of Leon....
-1020) - Omar KhayyámOmar KhayyámOmar Khayyám was aPersian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology....
, poet (1048-1131) - Abusaeid AbolkheirAbusaeid AbolkheirAbusa'id Abolkhayr or Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr , 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....
- Qazi Hajim Amoli قاضی هجیم آملی
- Sanai GhaznaviSanaiHakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi was a Afghan Sufi poet who lived in Ghazna, in what is now Afghanistan between the 11th century and the 12th century. Some people spell his name as Sanayee. He died around 1131.-Life:...
- Abdul Qadir Jilani
- ManuchihriManuchihriAbu Najm Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri , a.k.a Manuchehri Damghani, was a royal poet of the 11th century in Persia.He was from Damghan in Iran and he is said to invent the form of musammat in Persian poetry and has the best ones too. He traveled to Tabarestan and was admitted to the court of...
- Sanaayi
- Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
- Farrokhi Sistani (فرخی سيستانی), poet
- Baba Tahir Oryan
- Rabi'ah QuzdariRabi'ah QuzdariRābi'a bint Ka'b al-Quzdārī , popularly known as Rābi'a Balkhī and Zayn al-'Arab , is a semi-legendary figure of Persian literature and was possibly the first poetess in the history of New Persian poetry. References to her can be found in the poetry of Rūdakī and 'Attār...
- Abu-al-faraj RuniAbu-al-faraj RuniAbul Faraj Runi, born in Lahore, was an 11th century Persian court poet who wrote Mathnavi. His family came from Nishapur in Khorasan.He died at the turn of the 11th-12th century.-References used:...
- AzraqiAzraqiAbul-Mahāsin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi was an 11th century poet who lived in Persia.Born in Herat, Firdowsi is said to have taken refuge in his father's house on his flight from Ghazneh to Tus....
- Masud Sa'd SalmanMasud Sa'd SalmanMas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān was an 11th century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire who is known as the prisoner poet. He lived from 1046 to 1121.-Early life:He was born in 1046 in Lahore to wealthy parents from Hamadan, present-day Iran...
- Uthman MukhtariUthman MukhtariUthman Mukhtari was an 11th century and 12th century poet of Ghaznavids, an empire originating from Ghazna located in Afghanistan.Originating from Ghazna, he is thought to have written the Shahryar-nama, which describes the struggles of Muslims against Indian heathens during the Ghaznavid era.He...
- Qatran TabriziQatran TabriziAbū-Mansūr Qatrān-i Tabrīzī was a royal Persian poet.He was born in Sahar near Arrah, bihar Tabriz and was the most famous panegyrist of his time in Iran. His full name according to an old manuscript handwritten by the famous poet Anvari Abivardi is Abu Mansur Qatran al-Jili al-Azerbaijani...
- Asadi TusiAsadi TusiAbu Mansur Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi is arguably the second most important Persian poet of the Iranian national epics, after Ferdowsi who also happens to come from the same town of Tus. He was a poet, a linguist and copyist of ancient manuscripts.- Life :The information on Asadi's lifetime is scant...
- Surabadi
- Nizami Arudhi SamarqandiNizami Arudhi SamarqandiAhmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī and also Arudi , was a Persian poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161 AD. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala , his only work to fully survive.Born in Samarqand, Aruzi spent most of his time in Khorasan...
- NezamiNezamiNizami Ganjavi , Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi , whose formal name was Niẓām ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī ,was a 12th-century Persian poet. Nezāmi...
12th century
- Adib SabirAdib SabirShihabuddin Sharaful-udaba Sabir, known as Adib Sabir, was a 12th century royal poet of Persia. Originating from Termedh, he was employed in the court of Sultan Sanjar....
ادیب صابر - Am'aqAm'aqShihabuddin Am'aq was a 12th century Persian poet.Originating from Bukhara, he was an imposing poet that carried the title amir al-shu'ara in the Khaqanid courts...
عمعق بخارائی - AnvariAnvariAnvari , full name Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud was one of the greatest Persian poets....
انوری ابیوردی - Farid al-Din Attar, poet (about 1130-about 1220) فریدالدین عطار نیشاپوری
- Omar KhayyámOmar KhayyámOmar Khayyám was aPersian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology....
, poet (1048-1131) عمر خیام - NezamiNezamiNizami Ganjavi , Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi , whose formal name was Niẓām ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī ,was a 12th-century Persian poet. Nezāmi...
, poet (about 1140-about 1203) نظامی - SaadiSaadi (poet)Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī or, simply, Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but he has also been quoted in western sources...
, poet (1184-1283/1291?) سعدی - Sheikh RuzbehanSheikh RuzbehanAbu Muhammad Sheikh Ruzbehan Baqli was a poet, mystic, and sufi from Fasa.-Life:Ruzbihan Baqli was born in 1128 to a family of Daylami origin in the town of Fasa in Fars . Although Ruzbihan Baqli had religious visions at ages three, seven, and fifteen, he claims that his family was unfamiliar...
شیخ روزبهان - Abdul Qadir Jilaniعبدالقادر گیلانی
- Khaqani Shirvani خاقانی شروانی
- Sanaayiسنایی
- Sheikh Ahmad Jami
- Masudi Ghaznavi
- Jmaluddin Aburuh
- Falaki ShirvaniFalaki ShirvaniAbu Nizam Muhammad Falaki Shirvani was a Persian poet from Shirvan . His contemporary and rival was the famous Khaqani Shirvani.-References used:...
- Hassan GhaznaviHassan GhaznaviAshrafuddin Abu Muhammad Hasan ibn Muhammad Husayni Ghaznavi known as Ashraf was a 12th century Persian poet.Originating from Ghazna now in Afghanistan, he served mostly under Yamin ud-Dawlah Bahram Shah of the Ghaznavid dynasty...
, poet - Ardeshir Ebadi
- Sanai GhaznaviSanaiHakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi was a Afghan Sufi poet who lived in Ghazna, in what is now Afghanistan between the 11th century and the 12th century. Some people spell his name as Sanayee. He died around 1131.-Life:...
, poet - Abulfadhl Meybodi
- Mu'izziMu'izziAmir Abdollah Muhammad Mu'izzi was an 11th century and 12th century poet of Persia. The was the poet laureate of Sanjar . Born in 1048 CE and originating from Nisa, he ranks as one of the great masters of the Persian panegyric qasideh....
- Ein-ul Quzzat Hamedani
- Mihani
- Shahmardan
- Ibn BalkhiIbn BalkhiIbn Balkhi was a 12th century historian of Persia, in the city of Balkh, in present day Afghanistan.He is known for his work the Fars Nama . Dehkhoda dictionary mentions him to be a contemporary of Muhammad I of Great Seljuk....
- Muzaffer Esfazari
- Uthman MukhtariUthman MukhtariUthman Mukhtari was an 11th century and 12th century poet of Ghaznavids, an empire originating from Ghazna located in Afghanistan.Originating from Ghazna, he is thought to have written the Shahryar-nama, which describes the struggles of Muslims against Indian heathens during the Ghaznavid era.He...
- Ismail Jorjani
- MahsatiMahsatiMahsati Ganjavi , was a 12th century Persian poet. Mahsati is a compound of two Persian words "Maah" and "Sati" . The title appears in the works of Saadi, Nizami, Sanai, Rumi and Attar....
, poetess مهستی گنجوی - Omar ibn Sahlan
- Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari VatvatRashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari VatvatRashid al-Din Muhammad Umar-i Vatvāt was a 12th century royal panegyrist and epistolographer of Persia. He was born in Balkh, ....
خولجه رشید الدین وطواط - Abulfotuh Razi
- Nizami Arudhi SamarqandiNizami Arudhi SamarqandiAhmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī and also Arudi , was a Persian poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161 AD. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala , his only work to fully survive.Born in Samarqand, Aruzi spent most of his time in Khorasan...
نظامی عروضی سمرقندی
13th century
- Farid al-Din Attar, poet (about 1130-about 1230)
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, poet (1207-1273)
- Sultan WaladSultan WaladBaha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad , more popularly known as Sultan Walad , was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi, and one of the founders of the Mawlawiya order.-Life and Impact:...
- SaadiSaadi (poet)Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī or, simply, Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but he has also been quoted in western sources...
, poet (1184-1283/1291?) - Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, (1247-1318)
- Amir Khosravi DehlaviAmir KhusroAb'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow , better known as Amīr Khusrow Dehlawī , was an Indian musician, scholar and poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent...
- Shams e Tabrizi
- Sheikh RuzbehanSheikh RuzbehanAbu Muhammad Sheikh Ruzbehan Baqli was a poet, mystic, and sufi from Fasa.-Life:Ruzbihan Baqli was born in 1128 to a family of Daylami origin in the town of Fasa in Fars . Although Ruzbihan Baqli had religious visions at ages three, seven, and fifteen, he claims that his family was unfamiliar...
- Zahed GilaniZahed GilaniThe mystic Taj Al-Din Ebrahim ibn Rushan Amir Al-Kurdi Al-Sanjani , titled Sheikh Zahed Gilani, was Grandmaster of the famed Zahediyeh Sufi Order at Lahijan....
- Khwaju KermaniKhwaju KermaniKhwaju Kermani whose full name is Abu’l-ʿAṭā Kamāl-al-Din Maḥmud b. ʿAli b. Maḥmud Morshedi was a famous Persian poet and Sufi mystic from Persia.-Life:He was born in Kerman, Iran in 24 December 1290....
- Mahmud ShabistariMahmud ShabistariMahmūd Shabistarī 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 , where he received his education. He became deeply versed in the symbolic terminology of Ibn Arabi...
- Muhammad AufiZahiriddin Nasr Muhammad AufiSadiduddin Muhammad Aufi was a Persian historian, scientist, and author.-Biography:Born in Bukhara, Aufi grew up during the apex of the Islamic Golden Age, and spent many years traveling, exploring, and lecturing to the common folk and the royalty alike in Delhi, Khorasan, Khwarizm, Samarkand,...
- Qazi Beiza'iQazi Beiza'iQazi Naser al-Din Abdollah ibn Amr was a late 13th century judge and scholar of Persia. His famous work, Nezam al-Tawarikh contains an historical account of Fars.-References used:...
- Auhadi of MaraghehAuhadi of MaraghehAwhaduddin Awhadi Maragheie was a Persian poet from the city Maragha in Iran.He is usually surnamed Maraghei, but also mentioned as Awhadi Esfahani because his father hailed from Isfahan and he himself spent part of his life there...
- Auhaduddin KermaniAuhaduddin KermaniShaikh Abu Hamid Auhadeddin Kermani was a 13th-century Sufi and poet of Persia.He is the author of Mathnavi Misbāhu'l-arvāh , which is an allegorical pilgrimage through imaginary towns, bearing some affinity to Dante's Divina Commedia .He was suspected of heresy, and is thought to have died in...
- Ghiyathu'd-Din ibn Rashid'ud-Din
- Ibn-i-Yamin
- Ata al-Mulk JuvayniAta al-Mulk JuvayniAtâ-Malek Jovayni was a Persian historian who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Ta' rīkh-i jahān-gushā .He was born in Juvain, a city in Khorasan in northeastern Iran...
14th century
- HafezHafezKhwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī , known by his pen name Hāfez , was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry are to be found in the homes of most Iranians, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day...
, poet (born about 1310-1325) حافظ - Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Jewish convert into Islam (1247-1318)
- Khosravi DehlaviAmir KhusroAb'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrow , better known as Amīr Khusrow Dehlawī , was an Indian musician, scholar and poet. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent...
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) امیر خسرو دهلوی - Shams e Tabrizi شمس تبریزی
- Khwaju KermaniKhwaju KermaniKhwaju Kermani whose full name is Abu’l-ʿAṭā Kamāl-al-Din Maḥmud b. ʿAli b. Maḥmud Morshedi was a famous Persian poet and Sufi mystic from Persia.-Life:He was born in Kerman, Iran in 24 December 1290....
خواجوی کرمانی - Mahmud ShabistariMahmud ShabistariMahmūd Shabistarī 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 , where he received his education. He became deeply versed in the symbolic terminology of Ibn Arabi...
شیخ محمود شبستری - Meulana Shahin ShiraziMeulana Shahin ShiraziMeulana Shahin Shirazi was a Persian Jewish poet of the 14th century.He put the Pentateuch into Persian verse under the title Musa Nameh, an imitation of the famous Shah nameh in style....
- Junayd ShiraziJunayd ShiraziMo'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 . The latter work contains the biographies of over three hundred famous persons buried in Shiraz, Iran.-References:* E.G....
- Ghiyathu'd-Din ibn Rashid'ud-Din
- Shah Nimatullah
15th century
- JamiJamiNur ad-Dīn Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī also known as DJāmī, Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti who is commonly known as Jami , is known for his achievements as a scholar, mystic, writer, composer of numerous lyrics and idylls, historian, and one of the greatest...
, poet (1414-1492) - Mir Ali Shir Nava'iMir Ali Shir Nava'i' was a Central Asian Turkic politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of Uyghur origin who was born and lived in Herat. He is generally known by his pen name Navā'ī...
, poet (1441-1501)
16th century
- Abdol-Qader Bidel Dehlavi (1642–1720)
- Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546-1620)
- Vahshi Bafghi
17th century
- Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader BedilAbdul Qader BedilMawlānā Abul-Ma'āni Mirzā Abdul-Qādir Bēdil , also known as Bedil Dehlavī , was a famous Persian poet and Sufi born in Azimabad ; to a family of Chaghatay Turkic descent...
(1642–1720) - Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (15461546 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Luigi Alamanni, La Coltivazione, didactic poem written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics, Italian writer published in Paris, France* Ludovico Ariosto, Le Rime de M...
-16201620 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Thomas Dekker, Dekker his Dreame...
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19th century
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, malek al sho'ra محمد تقی بهار(ملک الشعرا)
- Mirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh Eshghi or Eshqi , born Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani , was a political writer and poet of Iran.He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while...
میرزاده عشقی - Iraj MirzaIraj MirzaPrince Iraj Mirza , son of prince Gholam Hossein Mirza, was a famous Iranian poet. He was a modern poet and his works are associated with the criticism of traditions. He had translations from the French language....
ایرج میرزا آملی - Aref QazviniAref QazviniAbolqassem Aref Qazvini was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician.-Biography:He was born in Qazvin.He composed many poems about Iran and was called a national poet. Along with his powerful poetry, he also wrote lyrics for numerous songs and played music. He was a revolutionary during the Iranian...
عارف قزوینی - Hassan Roshdieh حسن رشدیه
- Táhirih Qorrat al-'AynTáhirihTáhirih or Qurratu'l-`Ayn are both titles of Fátimih Baraghání , an influential poet and theologian of the Bábí Faith in Iran. Her life, influence and execution made her a key figure of the religion...
, Babi poetess and theologian - Farrokhi Yazdi فرخی یزدی
- Muhammad IqbalMuhammad IqbalSir Muhammad Iqbal , commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal , was a poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, then in the Punjab Province of British India, now in Pakistan...
محمد اقبال
Prose
- Mehdi Akhavan-SalesMehdi Akhavan-SalesMehdi Akhavān-Sāles , or Akhavān-Sāless , pen name M. Omid was a prominent Iranian poet. He is one of the pioneers of Free Verse in Persian language.-Life:Akhavan Sales was born in 1928 in Mashhad, Iran. He gave up an interest in music to appease his father...
, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث) - Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار)
- Simin BehbahaniSimin BehbahaniSimin Beh'bahāni is one of the most prominent figures of the modern Persian literature and one of the most outstanding amongst the contemporary Persian poets. She is Iran's national poet and an icon of the Iranian intelligentsia and literati who affectionately refer to her as the lioness of Iran...
, poet(سیمین بهبهانی) - Simin DaneshvarSimin DaneshvarSimin Dāneshvar is an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English, German, Italian and Russian into Persian. Daneshvar has a number of firsts to her credit. In 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be...
(سیمین دانشور) - Hushang EbtehajHushang EbtehajHushang Ebtehaj , with the pen name of H. E. Sayeh is an eminent Iranian poet of the 20th century, whose life and work spans many of Iran's political, cultural and literary upheavals....
, poet(هوشنگ ابتهاج) - Parvin E'tesamiParvin E'tesamiParvin E'tesami , also Parvin Etesami was a 20th century Persian poet of Iran. According to Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, her given name was Rakhshanda .-Life:...
, poet (پروین اعتصامی) - Farrokhi yazdi, poet (فرخی یزدی)
- Forough FarrokhzadForough FarrokhzadForugh Farrokhzād was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably one of Iran's most influential female poets of the twentieth century...
, poet (فروغ فرخزاد) - Houshang GolshiriHoushang GolshiriHoushang Golshiri was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to use modern literary techniques, and is recognized as one of the most influential writers of Persian prose of the twentieth century.-Early life:...
(هوشنگ گلشیری) - Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian (رضا قلیخان هدایت)
- Muhammad IqbalMuhammad IqbalSir Muhammad Iqbal , commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal , was a poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, then in the Punjab Province of British India, now in Pakistan...
, poet (محمد اقبال) - Iraj MirzaIraj MirzaPrince Iraj Mirza , son of prince Gholam Hossein Mirza, was a famous Iranian poet. He was a modern poet and his works are associated with the criticism of traditions. He had translations from the French language....
, poet (ایرج میرزا) - Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet
- Esmail KhoiEsmail KhoiEsmail Khoi is an Iranian poet born in 1938 in Mashad, Iran currently living in the United Kingdom after exile from Iran during the 1980s. Khoi was originally a lecturer in Philosophy before the Iranian Revolution.-Selected bibliography:...
, poet (اسماعیل خویی) - Abolghasem LahoutiAbolghasem LahoutiAbolqāsem Lahūtī , also transliterated as Abulqasim Lahuti and Abulqosim Lohuti, was a Persian poet and political activist who was active in Iran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and in Tajikistan in the early Soviet era.Born in Kermanshah to a poet by the name Mirza Ahmad Elhami, his...
, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی) - Mirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh Eshghi or Eshqi , born Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani , was a political writer and poet of Iran.He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while...
(میرزاده عشقی) - Fereydoun Moshiri, poet (فريدون مشيری)
- Nader NaderpourNader NaderpourNader Naderpour was an Iranian-born poet.Among many Iranian poets who shaped up the New Persian Poetry or New Poetry , Ali Esfandiari, aka Nima Yooshij, Parviz Natel Khanlari, Nader Naderpor, Forough Farrokhzad, Mehdi Akhavan Saless, Sohrab Sepehri, Feraydoon Moshiri, Siavosh Kasraii, Ahmad...
, poet (نادر نادرپور) - Said NafisiSaid NafisiSaeed Nafisi was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian....
, Scholar, poet and writer - Saadat NourySaadat NourySaadat Noury , also spelled as Saadat Nouri, is an Iranian author, a poet, and a journalist. His full name is منوچهر سعا دت نوری Manouchehr Saadat Noury .-Early life and family:...
, poet & journalist (منوچهر سعادت نوری) - Nima Yushij, poet (نیما یوشیج)
- Nosrat RahmaniNosrat RahmaniNosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی; in Persian; (1929 — June 16, 2000) was an Iranian poet and writer .-History:Rahmani was born in the slums of Tehran. He received his college degree from Ministry of PTT...
, poet نصرت رحمانی - Rahi Mo'ayeriRahi Mo'ayeriخRahi Mo'ayyeri was a famous contemporary poet and musician from Iran.He was born on April 30, 1909 in Tehran. He came from an artistic family his uncle was a famous Qajar Era poet Foroughi Bastami. Arts, and music were always present in his home...
, poet (رهی معیری) - Aref QazviniAref QazviniAbolqassem Aref Qazvini was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician.-Biography:He was born in Qazvin.He composed many poems about Iran and was called a national poet. Along with his powerful poetry, he also wrote lyrics for numerous songs and played music. He was a revolutionary during the Iranian...
(عارف قزوینی) - Kioumars Saberi FoumaniKioumars Saberi FoumaniKioumars Saberi Foumani also known with his pen nameGol-Agha , was an Iranian satirist, writer, and teacher.-Education and Personal Life:Saberi was born during the Second World War in Souma'eh Sara...
(کیومرث صابری فومنی) - Sohrab SepehriSohrab SepehriSohrab Sepehri was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter.He was born in Kashan in Isfahan province....
(سهراب سپهری) - Mohammad Hossein ShahriarMohammad Hossein ShahriarSeyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat-Tabrizi , chiefly known by his pen name as Shahriar , was a legendary Iranian poet of Azeri origin, wrote in Persian languages and Azerbaijani language....
, poet (محمد حسين شهريار) - Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet
Contemporary poets from Persian world (Iran, Afghanistan)
- Adib Boroumand, poet (ادیب برومند)
- Mehdi Akhavan-SalesMehdi Akhavan-SalesMehdi Akhavān-Sāles , or Akhavān-Sāless , pen name M. Omid was a prominent Iranian poet. He is one of the pioneers of Free Verse in Persian language.-Life:Akhavan Sales was born in 1928 in Mashhad, Iran. He gave up an interest in music to appease his father...
, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث) - Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار)
- Simin BehbahaniSimin BehbahaniSimin Beh'bahāni is one of the most prominent figures of the modern Persian literature and one of the most outstanding amongst the contemporary Persian poets. She is Iran's national poet and an icon of the Iranian intelligentsia and literati who affectionately refer to her as the lioness of Iran...
, poet(سیمین بهبهانی) - Hushang EbtehajHushang EbtehajHushang Ebtehaj , with the pen name of H. E. Sayeh is an eminent Iranian poet of the 20th century, whose life and work spans many of Iran's political, cultural and literary upheavals....
, poet(هوشنگ ابتهاج) - Parvin E'tesamiParvin E'tesamiParvin E'tesami , also Parvin Etesami was a 20th century Persian poet of Iran. According to Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, her given name was Rakhshanda .-Life:...
, poet (پروین اعتصامی) - Farrokhi yazdi, poet (فرخی یزدی)
- Forough FarrokhzadForough FarrokhzadForugh Farrokhzād was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably one of Iran's most influential female poets of the twentieth century...
, poet (فروغ فرخزاد) - Iraj MirzaIraj MirzaPrince Iraj Mirza , son of prince Gholam Hossein Mirza, was a famous Iranian poet. He was a modern poet and his works are associated with the criticism of traditions. He had translations from the French language....
, poet (ایرج میرزا) - VarandVarandVarand Varand Varand (also known as Soukias Hacob Koorkchian born March 10, 1954, Tehran is an Iranian poet, playwright, lyricist, author, translator and painter of Armenian descent. He has published 27 collections of poetry since 1972....
, poet (واراند) - Esmail KhoiEsmail KhoiEsmail Khoi is an Iranian poet born in 1938 in Mashad, Iran currently living in the United Kingdom after exile from Iran during the 1980s. Khoi was originally a lecturer in Philosophy before the Iranian Revolution.-Selected bibliography:...
, poet (اسماعیل خویی) - Abolghasem LahoutiAbolghasem LahoutiAbolqāsem Lahūtī , also transliterated as Abulqasim Lahuti and Abulqosim Lohuti, was a Persian poet and political activist who was active in Iran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and in Tajikistan in the early Soviet era.Born in Kermanshah to a poet by the name Mirza Ahmad Elhami, his...
, communist poet - Mirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh EshghiMirzadeh Eshghi or Eshqi , born Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani , was a political writer and poet of Iran.He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while...
(میرزاده عشقی) - Nosrat RahmaniNosrat RahmaniNosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی; in Persian; (1929 — June 16, 2000) was an Iranian poet and writer .-History:Rahmani was born in the slums of Tehran. He received his college degree from Ministry of PTT...
, poet نصرت رحمانی - Rahi Mo'ayeriRahi Mo'ayeriخRahi Mo'ayyeri was a famous contemporary poet and musician from Iran.He was born on April 30, 1909 in Tehran. He came from an artistic family his uncle was a famous Qajar Era poet Foroughi Bastami. Arts, and music were always present in his home...
, poet (رهی معیری) - Aref QazviniAref QazviniAbolqassem Aref Qazvini was an Iranian poet, lyricist, and musician.-Biography:He was born in Qazvin.He composed many poems about Iran and was called a national poet. Along with his powerful poetry, he also wrote lyrics for numerous songs and played music. He was a revolutionary during the Iranian...
(عارف قزوینی) - Mohammad MokhtariMohammad MokhtariMohammad Mokhtari was an Iranian writer who was murdered on the outskirts of Tehran in the course of the Chain Murders of Iran. He left his residence at five o'clock in the afternoon of December 2 1998, reportedly to buy light bulbs on Jordan Boulevard in north Tehran...
, Poet - Mohammad Hossein ShahriarMohammad Hossein ShahriarSeyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat-Tabrizi , chiefly known by his pen name as Shahriar , was a legendary Iranian poet of Azeri origin, wrote in Persian languages and Azerbaijani language....
, poet (محمد حسين شهريار) - Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet
- Fereidoon TavallaliFereidoon TavallaliFereidoon Tavallali "Fereydoon Tavallali" was born in Shiraz, Iran. He grew up in a traditional and wealthy family. Spending his early years in a beautiful gardened family compound, just outside of the city, in those days,. His primary education was at home with private literary tutors...
, poet (فریدون توللی) - Manouchehr AtashiManouchehr AtashiManouchehr Atashi was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist.He was born in 1931 in Dashtestan, Bushehr province His poetry is the poetry of the revolting warrior of the humiliated southern tribesman. He takes his work seriously and although attached to his native birthplace his poems are...
(منوچهر آتشی) - Hushang EbtehajHushang EbtehajHushang Ebtehaj , with the pen name of H. E. Sayeh is an eminent Iranian poet of the 20th century, whose life and work spans many of Iran's political, cultural and literary upheavals....
(H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج) - Siavash KasraieSiavash KasraieSiavash Kasraie was an Iranian poet....
(سیاوش کسرایی) - Fereydoun Moshiri (فریدون مشیری)
- Muhammad IqbalMuhammad IqbalSir Muhammad Iqbal , commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal , was a poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, then in the Punjab Province of British India, now in Pakistan...
, poet - Nader NaderpourNader NaderpourNader Naderpour was an Iranian-born poet.Among many Iranian poets who shaped up the New Persian Poetry or New Poetry , Ali Esfandiari, aka Nima Yooshij, Parviz Natel Khanlari, Nader Naderpor, Forough Farrokhzad, Mehdi Akhavan Saless, Sohrab Sepehri, Feraydoon Moshiri, Siavosh Kasraii, Ahmad...
(نادر نادرپور) - Nosrat RahmaniNosrat RahmaniNosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی; in Persian; (1929 — June 16, 2000) was an Iranian poet and writer .-History:Rahmani was born in the slums of Tehran. He received his college degree from Ministry of PTT...
(نصرت رحمانی) - Heydar YaghmaHeydar YaghmaHeydar Yaghma was an Iranian poet.He was born in village near Nishapur. Yaghma was a simple worker and was not literate. He began telling poems while in his thirties and learned how to read and write....
(حیدر یغما) - Mohammad Reza Shafiei-KadkaniMohammad Reza Shafiei-KadkaniMohammad Reza Shafiei Kadkani is a Persian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator.Born in Nishapur, Razavi Khorasan, Shafiei-Kadkani graduated from Tehran University with a doctorate degree in Persian literature...
(محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی) - Nima Yushij (نیما یوشیج)
- Shams LangeroodiShams LangeroodiMohammad Shams Langeroodi is a contemporary Iranian poet, author and university lecturer. He has researched extensively on different periods of Persian poetry, most famous of which has resulted in An Analytic History of Persian Modern Poetry in four volumes...
(شمس لنگرودی) - Yadollah RoyaeeYadollah RoyaeeYadollah Royaee is the poet of the New Wave or the Poem of Imagination in Iranian Modern Literature.-Biography:He is a graduate of college of law and human sciences and he has worked for the state television for several years. His poetry renewed debate about the relative value of form and context...
(یدالله رویایی) - Hamid MosadeghHamid MosadeghHamid Mosadegh , was a contemporary Iranian poet, author and lawyer.Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq , also Mossadegh, Mossadeq, Mosadeck, or Musaddiq , was the democratically elected[1][2][3] Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was overthrown in a coup d'état...
(حمید مصدق) - Bahman SholevarBahman SholevarBahman Sholevar is an Iranian-American novelist, poet, translator, critic, psychiatrist and political activist. He began writing and translating at age 13. At ages 18 and 19 he translated William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and T. S...
poet and novelist(بهمن شعله ور) - Khalilullah Khalili (خلیل الله خلیلی) Poet and writer
See also
- Authors from Iran
- Iranian poets
- List of Iranian scientists and scholars
- List of Iranian writers
- Persian languagePersian languagePersian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
- Persian literaturePersian literaturePersian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...