MOJIR-AL-DIN BAYLAQĀNI, Persian poet of the 12th century, born in Baylaqān in Arrān (now part of the Republic of Azerbaijan). He was…

ḴATM AL-ḠARĀʾEB (generally known under the title it has later been given, Toḥfat al-ʿErāqayn; see below), the only maṯnawi written…

ḴĀQĀNI ŠERVĀNI ii. Works Qaṣidas and tarjiʿāt. Ḵāqāni’s fame rests on his qaṣidas, of which, in Żiāʾ-al-Din Sajjādi’s edition, there…

JĀJARMI, MOḤAMMAD B. BADR, Persian poet and anthologist. His father Malek-al-Šoʿarāʾ Badr-al-Din ʿOmar Jājarmi (d. 686/1287; q.v.), a poet from…

ḴĀQĀNI ŠERVĀNI i. Life The date of Ḵāqāni’s birth can be deduced from a chronogram (Divān, p. 64, v. 13) and…

ḴĀQĀNI ŠERVĀNI (or Šarvāni), AFŻAL-AL-DIN BADIL B. ʿALI B. ʿOṮMĀN, a major Persian poet and prose writer (b. Šervān, ca….