ḠANI, MOLLĀ TĀHER KAŠMIRI  (d. 1079/1668-9): the most famous Persian-language poet of the region of Kashmir in South Asia. He…

RĀM WA SITĀ, an early 17th-century Persian translation of an ancient Indian love story epic in Vālmiki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa (ca….

ḴĀN-E ĀREZU, Serāj-al-din ʿAli (1688-1756), a Persian-language philologist, lexicographer, literary critic and poet from North India. In defending a Persian…