KAYFI SABZAVĀRI, Mir Moḥammad (fl. 17th cent.), Persian poet, also known as Kayfi Sistāni and Kayfi Now-Mosalmān. He was born…

KĀMRĀN MIRZĀ b. Moḥammad Bābor (b. Kabul, ca. 1509; d. Mecca, 1557), second son of the founder of the Mughal…

NAWʿI, MOḤAMMAD-REŻĀ ḴABUŠĀNI (b. Ḵabušān ca. 970/1563; d. Borhānpur, 1019/1610),  Persian poet, who moved from his hometown Qučān  (Ḵabušān) in…

KAŠFI, MIR MOḤAMMAD ṢĀLEḤ ḤOSAYNI (d. 14 Šaʿbān 1061/1 August 1651), calligrapher and poet in Mughal India. He was the…

ḴAMSA OF AMIR ḴOSROW, a quintet of poems in the mathnawi (maṯnawi) form, composed by Amir Ḵosrow as a response to Neẓāmi’s…

MASʿUD-E SAʿD-E SALMĀN (b. Lahore 1046-49?, d. 1121-22), Persian poet of the later Ghaznavid period. The first major Indo-Persian poet,…