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The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere.
Poets like Mayakovsky, Yase Nien and Lahouti (an Iranian poet living in exile in Russia) exerted a special influence on the Persian poets in Afghanistan. The influence of Iranians (e.g. Farrokhi Yazdi and Ahmad Shamlou ) on the newly established Afghan prose and poetry, especially in the second half of the 20th century, must also be taken into ...
Rumi is widely known by the sobriquet Mawlānā / Molānā[ 1 ][ 33 ] ( Persian: مولاناPersian pronunciation: [moulɒːnɒ]) in Iran and popularly known as Mevlânâ in Turkey. Mawlānā ( مولانا) is a term of Arabic origin, meaning "our master". The term مولویMawlawī / Mowlavi (Persian) and Mevlevi (Turkish), also of Arabic ...
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی ), known by his pen name Hafez ( حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, [ 1] was a Persian lyric poet [ 2][ 3] whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one ...
Saadi Shirazi. Saadi Shīrāzī, [ a][ 1] better known by his pen name Saadi ( / ˈsɑːdi /; [ 2] Persian: سعدی, romanized : Saʿdī ⓘ, IPA: [sæʔˈdiː] ), also known as Sadi of Shiraz ( سعدی شیرازی, Saʿdī Shīrāzī; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was a Persian poet and prose writer [ 3][ 4] of the medieval period.
Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi ( Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025), [ 2] also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi ( فردوسی ), [ 3] was a Persian [ 4][ 5] 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 epic of Persian-speaking ...
Nima Yooshij or Nimā Yushij (12 November 1895 – 6 January 1960; Persian: نیما یوشیج ), [ 1][ 2] also called Nimā ( نیما ), néema Ali Esfandiari ( علی اسفندیاری ), was an prominent Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized, called she'r-e now ( شعر نو, lit. "new poetry"), also ...
Saib Tabrizi ( Persian: صائب تبریزی, romanized : Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī, میرزا محمّدعلی صائب تبریزی, Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿalī Ṣāʾib, Azerbaijani: صائب تبریزی) was an Iranian poet, regarded as one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets ...