ĀHĪ JOḠATĀʾĪ, SOLṬĀN-QOLĪ BEG TORŠĪZĪ, Chaghatay amir, poet, and companion of Ḡarīb Mīrzā, a son of the Timurid sultan, Ḥosayn Bāyqarā. His taḵalloṣ prior to Āhī was Nargesī. He wrote in both Persian and Turkish; according to ʿAlī-Šīr Navāʾī, he wrote a Ḵamsa in imitation of Neẓāmī’s, but it failed to become popular. Āhī died in Tabrīz in 927/1521.

 

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(ʿA. ʿA. Rajāʾī)

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