ĀHĪ JOḠATĀʾĪ
Chaghatay amir, poet, and companion of Ḡarīb Mīrzā, a son of the Timurid sultan, Ḥosayn Bāyqarā.
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.
Bibliography
Ātaškada, p. 47.
Maǰmaʿ al-foṣaḥāʾ IV, p. 1.
Modarres Tabrīzī, Rayḥānat al-adab, Tehran, 1324 Š./1945, I, p. 31.
Al-Ḏarīʿa, pt. 9, sec. 1, p. 13.
Cite this article
ʿA. ʿA. Rajāʾī, “ĀHĪ JOḠATĀʾĪ,” Encyclopædia Iranica, I/6, p. 635; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ahi-jogatai-soltan-qoli-beg-torsizi-chaghatay-amir-poet (accessed on 16 March 2014).