Mohammad Sa'id Ashraf Mazandarani
Mohammad Sa'id Ashraf Mazandarani (b.1620 in Mazandaran, Iran– d. 1704 in Munger in Mughal India; Persian: محمدسعید بن محمدصالح اشرف مازندرانی), commonly known as Ashraf Mazandarani (Persian: اشرف مازندرانی), was one of the last prominent Persian poets and calligraphers at the court of Mughal India. He was born into a scholarly family in Mazandaran, a northern province of Safavid Iran.His father, Mohammad Salih al-Mazandarani, was a famous Shia Islamic scholar and jurist and his mother, Amina Begum Bint al-Majlisi, was a female Safavid mujtahideh.
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Mohammad Sa'id Ashraf Mazandarani
- Born
- 1620 · Isfahan.
- Died
- 1704
- Occupation
- calligrapher · poet · painter
- Languages
- Persian
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Born at Isfahan in 1620, died in 1704.
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- Dale, Stephen Frederic. A Safavid Poet in the Heart of Darkness: The Indian Poems of Ashraf Mazandarani. Iranian Studies. 36. 2. 197–212. 2003. 10.1080/00210860305242.
- Sharma. Sunil. 2011. Ashraf Māzandarānī.
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