Ahli Shirazi
Illustration — Frontispiece of an early copy of Ahli Shirazi's divan. Created in Safavid Iran and dated 1581–82, this copy was written within 50 years of Ahli Shirazi's death. The particularly fine illumination of this frontispiece suggests that this copy was created for a princely patron.
Ahli Shirazi
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- Born
- 1454 · Shiraz.
- Died
- 1535 · Shiraz.
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages
- Persian
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Illustration — Frontispiece of an early copy of Ahli Shirazi's divan. Created in Safavid Iran and dated 1581–82, this copy was written within 50 years of Ahli Shirazi's death. The particularly fine illumination of this frontispiece suggests that this copy was created for a princely patron.
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Ahli Shirazi, full name Muhammad ibn Yusuf Ahli Shirazi, was a Persian poet who lived in Shiraz, Iran, from circa 1454 to 1535. He is buried in Hafezieh. It is said that his life style was retiring, he faced poverty, and his life was filled with struggle. Shirazi excelled especially in elaborately ingenious word plays (tajnisat) and other rhetorical devices. His works include ghazals, qasidas, robais (quatrains), and other types. One ornamental ode imitates a famous rhetorical piece by Salman Savaji and was judged more successful than Salman's original; but Lotf Ali Beg commented that such rhetorical devices are not the stuff of which true poetry is made. The 18th- and 19th-century Iranian poet Shurideh Shirazi is a descendant of Ahli Shirazi.
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1454
Ahli Shirazi born at Shiraz.
1535
Ahli Shirazi died at Shiraz.
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- 1.Rūdakī, Abū ‘Abdallāh. Classical Persian Poetry - A Thousand Years of the Persian Book Exhibitions (Library of Congress). www.loc.gov. 2014-03-27.
- 2.Losensky, Paul E. ʿAbdī Shīrāzī. Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Brill. 2008-12-01. 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_26282.
- 3.AHLĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ. Encyclopedia Iranica. 28 July 2011.
- 4.Alam, Muzaffar. Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800. Cambridge University Press. 222. February 2007. 978-0-521-78041-4.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Lingwood, Chad. Politics, Poetry, and Sufism in Medieval Iran: New Perspectives on Jāmī’s Salāmān va Absāl. Brill. 2013. 978-9004254046.
- Rahman. Munibur. S̲h̲ūrīda, Muḥammad Taḳī.
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