(9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. His poetry is considered to be among the greatest of the...

comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan...

(سعدی شیرازی, Saʿdī Shīrāzī; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was a Persian poet and prose writer of the medieval period. He is recognized for the quality...

was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest...

better known by his pen name Hidayat (Hidayət, هدایت), was a 15th-century poet and statesman who served under the Aq Qoyunlus. His only surviving work is...

11th-century Persian poet and the composer of Vis and Ramin. Abu Sa'id al-Darir al-Jurjani, 9th century astronomer and mathematician Al-Masihi, 10th century...

Asadullah Beg Khan (1797–1869), also known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet. He was popularly known by the pen names Ghalib and Asad. His honorific was...

16th-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature...

Füzuli, Qövsi Təbrizi (fl. tenth/sixteenth-eleventh/seventeenth centuries), Məsihi (d. 1066/1656), and others continued his tradition, while Saib Təbrizi (d...

الخیر), commonly known as Iranshah (ایرانشاه; or Iranshan), was a Persian poet who lived in the Seljuk Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries. Iranshah is...

born Harutyun Sayatyan; 14 June 1712 – 22 September 1795) was an Armenian poet, musician and ashugh, who had compositions in a number of languages. The...

c. 858 – 940/41) was a poet, singer, and musician who is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian. A court poet under the Samanids, he...

فضلی), was a 16th-century poet. He wrote in Azerbaijani, Persian, and Arabic and was the son of the major Azerbaijani poet Fuzuli. Fazli was best known...

ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, was a 12th-century Muslim poet. Nizami is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial...

Persian physician, mathematician and astronomer Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi, Persian physician Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Arab traveller and writer (approximate...

1906 – September 18, 1988), known by his pen name Shahriar, was an Iranian poet who composed works in both Azerbaijani and Persian. His most important work...

Nasir Khusraw (Persian: ناصرخسرو; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was an Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary (da'i) for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate...

comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan...

the first known female poet to write in Persian. A non-mystic poet, her imagery was later transformed into that of a mystic poet by authors such as Attar...

or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim)...

Anjuman (Persian: نادیا انجمن; December 27, 1980 – November 4, 2005) was a poet from Afghanistan. Nadia Anjuman Herawi was born in Herat in northwestern...

memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, was a Persian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest...

a poet and agriculturist from Afghanistan. He was born in Malima in Panjshir province. He is considered to be Afghanistan's most famous modern poet who...

Parvin E'tesami (Persian: پروین اعتصامی), was an Iranian 20th-century Persian poet. Parvin E'tesami was born on March 17, 1907 in Tabriz to parent, Mirza Yussef...

14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, feminist author. Farrokhzad...

Hafez (Persian: دیوان حافظ) is a collection of poems written by the Iranian poet Hafez. Most of these poems are in Persian, but there are some macaronic language...

District, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic) was an Azerbaijani ashug and poet. Dirili Surkhay was born on May 10, 1902, in the village of Khudayarly, in...

(Book of Timur) or Zafarnama (Book of Victory) is a poem by the Persian poet Hatefi about the life of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (1336–1405). It...

(rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work...

ashugh (Armenian: աշուղ; Georgian: აშუღი): 1365  is traditionally a singer-poet and bard who accompanies his song—be it a dastan (traditional epic story...