Lists of Persian poets

The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere.

9th century

• Rudaki (رودکی)
• Mansur Al-Hallaj (منصور حلاج)
• Shahid Balkhi (ابوالحسن شهيدبن حسين جهودانکي بلخی)

10th century

• Ferdowsi فردوسی
• Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr ابوسعید ابوالخیر
• Rudaki رودکی
• Abu-Mansur Daqiqi ابومنصور دقیقی
• Mansur Al-Hallaj منصور حلاج
• Unsuri عنصری
• Rabia Balkhi رابعه بلخی
• Asjadi عسجدی
• Farrukhi Sistani فرخی سیستانی
• Kisai Marvazi کسائی مروزی
• Abu-Shakur Balkhi ابوشکور بلخی
• Ayyuqi عیوقی
• Khwaja Abdullah Ansari خواجه عبدالله انصاری

11th century

Statue of Omar Khayyam in Iran.

• Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani
• Asjadi
• Ferdowsi, poet (925–1020)
• Omar Khayyam, poet (1048–1131)
• Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr
• Sanai Ghaznavi
• Abdul-Qadir Gilani
• Manuchehri
• Sanai
• Nasir Khusraw, traveller, writer and poet
• Farrukhi Sistani (فرخی سيستانی), poet
• Baba Tahir
• Rabia Balkhi
• Abu-al-Faraj Runi
• Azraqi
• Masud Sa'd Salman
• Uthman Mukhtari
• Qatran Tabrizi
• Asadi Tusi

12th century

• Adib Sabir ادیب صابر
• Am'aq عمعق بخارائی
• Anvari انوری ابیوردی
• Attar of Nishapur, poet (c. 1145 – c. 1221) فریدالدین عطار نیشاپوری
• Mahsati مِهسَتی گنجوی
• Omar Khayyam, poet (1048–1131) عمر خیام
• Nizami Ganjavi, poet (about 1140-about 1203) نظامی
• Saadi Shirazi, poet (1184-1283/1291?) سعدی
• Ruzbihan Baqliشیخ روزبهان
• Abdul-Qadir Gilani عبدالقادر گیلانی
• Khaqani خاقانی شروانی
• Sanaiسنایی
• Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami
• Falaki Shirvani
• Hassan Ghaznavi, poet
• Sanai Ghaznavi, poet
• Mu'izzi
• Ibn Balkhi
• Uthman Mukhtari
• Mahsati, poet مهستی گنجوی
• Rashid al-Din Vatvat خولجه رشید الدین وطواط
• Nizami Aruziنظامی عروضی سمرقندی
• Abd al-Rafe Heravi

13th century

• Attar of Nishapur, poet (c. 1145 – c. 1221)
• Rumi, poet (1207–1273)
• Sultan Walad
• Saadi Shirazi, poet (1184-1283/1291?)
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, (1247–1318)
• Amir Khusrow
• Shams Tabrizi
• Ruzbihan Baqli
• Zahed Gilani
• Khwaju Kermani
• Mahmoud Shabestari
• Muhammad Aufi
• Qazi Beiza'i
• Awhadi Maraghai
• Auhaduddin Kermani
• Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
• Ata-Malik Juvayni

14th century

• Hafez, poet (born about 1310–1325) حافظ
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Jewish convert into Islam (1247–1318)
• Amir Khusrow,(from India) امیر خسرو دهلوی
• Shams Tabrizi شمس تبریزی
• Khwaju Kermani خواجوی کرمانی
• Mahmoud Shabestari شیخ محمود شبستری
• Shahin Shirazi
• Junayd Shirazi
• Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
• Shah Nimatullah Wali

15th century

• Jami, poet (1414–1492)
• Ali-Shir Nava'i, poet (1441–1501)

16th century

• Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620)
• Vahshi Bafghi

17th century

• Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil (1642–1720)
• Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708) - Composed the famous Zafarnamah
• Teimuraz I of Kakheti
• Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620)
• Bhai Nand Lal (1633–1713)

18th century

• Hazin Lahiji (حزین لاهیجی)
• Hatef Esfehani, poet (هاتف اصفهانی)
• Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (مرزا غالب)

19th century

• Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, malek al sho'ra محمد تقی بهار(ملک الشعرا)
• Mirzadeh Eshghi میرزاده عشقی
• Iraj Mirza ایرج میرزا آملی
• Mirza Alakbar Sabir
• Aref Qazvini عارف قزوینی
• Mirza Shafi Vazeh
• Hassan Roshdieh حسن رشدیه
• Táhirih Qorrat al-'Ayn, Babi poet and theologian
• Farrokhi Yazdi فرخی یزدی
• Muhammad Iqbal محمد اقبال
• Khurshidbanu Natavan

20th century

Prose

Sohrab Sepehri

Ahmad Shamlou

• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث)
• Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
• Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار)
• Harbans Bhalla (1930-1993), poet
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, poet
• Simin Behbahani, poet(سیمین بهبهانی)
• Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور)
• Hushang Ebtehaj, poet(هوشنگ ابتهاج)
• Parvin E'tesami, poet (پروین اعتصامی)
• Farrokhi yazdi, poet (فرخی یزدی)
• Forough Farrokhzad, poet (فروغ فرخزاد)
• Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری)
• Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian (رضا قلی‌خان هدایت)
• Muhammad Iqbal, poet (محمد اقبال)
• Syed Abuzar Bukhari, poet, writer, orator
• Iraj Mirza, poet (ایرج میرزا)
• Mohammad-Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, poet
• Esmail Khoi, poet (اسماعیل خویی)
• Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی)
• Mirzadeh Eshghi (میرزاده عشقی)
• Fereydoun Moshiri, poet (فريدون مشيری)
• Nader Naderpour, poet (نادر نادرپور)
• Said Nafisi, Scholar, poet and writer
• Nima Yushij, poet (نیما یوشیج)
• Nosrat Rahmani, poet نصرت رحمانی()
• Rahi Mo'ayeri, poet (رهی معیری)
• Aref Qazvini (عارف قزوینی)
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani (کیومرث صابری فومنی)
• Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری)
• Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet (محمد حسين شهريار)
• Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet^[1]

Contemporary Persian (20th century and beyond)

Contemporary poets from Persian world (Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan)

Iraj Mirza

• Adib Boroumand,^[2] poet (ادیب برومند)
• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث)
• Mohammad-Taghi Bahar, poet(محمد تقی بهار)
• Simin Behbahani, poet(سیمین بهبهانی)
• Hushang Ebtehaj, poet(هوشنگ ابتهاج)
• Parvin E'tesami, poet (پروین اعتصامی)
• Farrokhi yazdi, poet (فرخی یزدی)
• Forough Farrokhzad, poet (فروغ فرخزاد)
• Iraj Mirza, poet (ایرج میرزا)
• Varand, poet (واراند)
• Esmail Khoi, poet (اسماعیل خویی)
• Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet
• Mirzadeh Eshghi (میرزاده عشقی)
• Nosrat Rahmani, poet نصرت رحمانی()
• Rahi Mo'ayeri, poet (رهی معیری)
• Aref Qazvini (عارف قزوینی)
• Mohammad Mokhtari, Poet
• Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet (محمد حسين شهريار)
• Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet^[3]
• Fereidoon Tavallali, poet (فریدون توللی)
• Manouchehr Atashi (منوچهر آتشی)
• Hushang Ebtehaj (H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج)
• Siavash Kasraie (سیاوش کسرایی)
• Fereydoun Moshiri (فریدون مشیری)
• Muhammad Iqbal, poet
• Nader Naderpour (نادر نادرپور)
• Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی)
• Heydar Yaghma (حیدر یغما)
• Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani (محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی)
• Nima Yushij (نیما یوشیج)
• Shams Langeroodi (شمس لنگرودی)
• Yadollah Royaee (یدالله رویایی)
• Hamid Mosadegh(حمید مصدق)
• Bahman Sholevar poet and novelist(بهمن شعله ور)
• Khalilullah Khalili (خلیل الله خلیلی) Poet and writer

See also

• Authors from Iran
• Iranian poets
• List of Iranian scientists and scholars
• List of Iranian writers
• Persian language
• Persian literature

References

• Morteza Motahhari, Khadamāt-i mutaqābil-i Islām va Īrān, c 1350s Vol 14, p583-590 OCLC 34476860
• E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
• Mohammad Mokhtary Mashhad 1944 – Tehran 2002. Writer of Siavash nameh published by Bonyad-e-Shahnameh. writer of Tarikhe ostorehhay-e-Iran. one of the Persian researchers. Murdered by Islamic regime. He was one of the 72 Persians murdered by Emami terror team (Ghatlhaye zangirehi). kidnapped on his way home and choked to dead.
• Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. ISBN 90-277-0143-1 OCLC 460598 LCC PK6097.R913 ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K
• ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Zarrīnʹkūb (1379 (2000)). Dū qarn-i sukūt : sarguz̲asht-i ḥavādis̲ va awz̤āʻ-i tārīkhī dar dū qarn-i avval-i Islām (Two Centuries of Silence). Tihrān: Sukhan. OCLC 46632917. ISBN 964-5983-33-6. Check date values in: |date= (help)

1. Shamlou.org
2. AdibBoroumand.com
3. Shamlou.org