Jalal Matini
(1928 – 2025)
- BAHĀR, MOḤAMMAD-TAQĪ ii. Bahār as a poet
ii. Bahār as a Poet Bahār is probably the most significant writer of qaṣīdas since the end of the 6th/12th…
- BAHMANYĀR, AḤMAD
BAHMANYĀR, AḤMAD (DEHQĀN), scholar, educator, and man of letters, b. 1301/1884 in Kermān, d. 1334 Š./1955 in Tehran (Figure 1)….
- ĀẔAR BĪGDELĪ
ĀẔAR (ĀḎAR) BĪGDELĪ, ḤĀJJ LOṬF-ʿALĪ BĪG B. ĀQĀ KHAN BĪGDELĪ ŠĀMLŪ (fl. 1134/1721-1195/1781), poet and author of a taḏkera (biographical…
- AYĀZ, ABU’L-NAJM
AYĀZ, ABU’L-NAJM B. ŪYMĀQ, favorite Turkish slave of the Ghaznavid Sultan Maḥmūd, whose passion for Ayāz is a recurrent theme…
- ʿAWFĪ, SADĪD-AL-DĪN
ʿAWFĪ, SADĪD-AL-DĪN (NŪR-AL-DĪN, or JAMĀL-AL-DĪN) MOḤAMMAD B. MOḤAMMAD B. YAḤYĀ B. ṬĀHER B. ʿOṮMĀN BOḴĀRĪ ḤANAFĪ, an important Persian writer…
- ʿAMĀRA MARVAZĪ
ʿAMĀRA B. MOḤAMMAD (or AḤMAD or MAḤMŪD) MARVAZĪ, ABŪ MANṢŪR, Persian poet of the late Samanid/early Ghaznavid periods. Most scholars…
- ʿAMʿAQ BOḴARĀʾĪ
ʿAMʿAQ BOḴARĀʾĪ, AMĪR-AL-ŠOʿARĀʾ ABU’L-NAJĪB ŠEHĀB-AL-DĪN, Persian poet of the 5th-6th/11th-12th centuries. The date of his birth is unknown but he…
- ĀFARĪN-NĀMA
ĀFARĪN-NĀMA, a poem in the motaqāreb meter by the 4th/10th century poet Abū Šakūr Balḵī. The scattered extant verses, some…
- ADĪB NĪŠĀBURĪ
ADĪB NĪŠĀBURĪ, SHAIKH ʿABD-AL-JAWĀD, Persian litterateur and poet. Son of a farmer, Mollā ʿAbbās Nīšābūrī, he was born in Nīšābūr…
- ʿĀREF QAZVĪNĪ i. Life and poetry
Figure 1. Photographic postcard of ʿĀREF QAZVĪNĪ. Published by Ali Akbar Jahromi & Co., Bombay, 1921–1922. First Series: Influential Contemporary Figures,…
- FAYYĀŻ, ʿALĪ-AKBAR MAJĪDĪ
FAYYĀŻ, ʿALĪ-AKBAR MAJĪDĪ, scholar and educator (b. Mašhad, 1316/1898; d. Mašhad, 4 Šahrīvar 1350 Š./26 August 1971; Figure 1). Son…
- FARROḴ, Sayyed MAḤMŪD
FARROḴ, Sayyed MAḤMŪD (b. Mašhad, 23 Jomādā II 1314/29 Nov. 1896; d. Mašhad, 2 Ordībehešt 1360 Š./22 April 1981; Figure…
- HEDĀYAT AL-MOTAʿALLEMIN FI’L-ṬEBB
HEDĀYAT AL-MOTAʿALLEMIN FI’L-ṬEBB, the complete title of the oldest extant treatise on medicine written in Persia, which is also commonly…
- ḤABIB-ALLĀH ḴORĀSĀNI
ḤABIB-ALLĀH ḴORĀSĀNI, Hājj Mirzā, an enlightened religious scholar of Mašhad and a poet (b. Mašhad, 1266/1850; d. Mašhad, 27 Šaʿbān…
- KUŠ-NĀMA
KUŠ-NĀMA, part of a mythical history of Iran written by Ḥakim Irānšān b. Abu’l-Ḵayr between the years 501-04/1108-11 (lines 167-70;…
- AFIFI, RAḤIM
AFIFI, RAḤIM (b. Shiraz ?/ d. Teheran 1375 Š./ 1996), scholar and author. He completed his primary education in Mašhad…