Persian Authors
239 authors · 71 with readable texts
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- ʿAbbās Ḫān Sarvānī known for his Tuḥfah-yi Akbar Šāhī fl. ca. 987/1579
- ʿAbd al-Bāqī "Bāqī" Nihavandi Vizier, (1042/1632)
- ʿAbd al-Ḥāmid Lāhūrī Historian, (1065/1654) d. 1065/1654–5
- ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq "Ḥaqqī" Dihlavī Buḫārī Historian, (958/1551) d. 1052/1642
- ʿAbd al-Karīm Kashmīrī Historian and traveller; author of the Bayān-i Wāqiʿ. d. 1198/1784 1 text
- ʿAbd-Allāh Historian, known for his work Tārīḫ-i Dāʾūdī, (1... fl. ca. 1014-1037/1605-1627
- Abū al-Fażl ʿAllāmī Vizier and historian to Emperor Akbar; author of the Akbarnāma. d. 1011/1602 8 texts
- Abū al-Ḥasan Emperor, (1075/1665)
- Abū Bakr Historian, (756/1355)
- Abū Sa'id Mystic, (357/967)
- Abū Ṭālib Khān Iṣfahānī Historian and traveller of Lucknow; wrote an account of his journey to Europe. d. 1220/1805–6 1 text
- ʿAfīf / Šams-i Sirāj ʿAfīf Historian, (752/1351) fl. ca. 801/1398
- Aflākī Hagiographer of Rūmī and the early Mevlevi order (Manāqib al-ʿĀrifīn). d. 761/1360 1 text
- Aḥmad al-Ğaffārī Qazvīnī Historian; author of universal chronicles. d. 975/1567–8 1 text
- Aḥmad ibn Naṣr Allāh Tattavī Historian, (d. 704) d. 996/1587–88
- `Ala al-Ma`arri Arabic poet and philosopher
- "ʿAlī Author, (d. 1122)
- ʿAlī Ibrāhīm Ḫān "Ḫalīl" Bahādur Naṣīr-Jang ʿAẓīmābādī (18th century) d. 1208/1793–4
- ʿAlī Kūfī Translator-author of the Čachnāma, history of the Arab conquest of Sind. fl. ca. 613/1216–7 1 text
- ʿAlī Muḥammad Khān Bahādur Historian of Gujarāt (d. 1177/1763). d. 1177/1763 1 text
- Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī Court poet of Delhi; pioneer of Indo-Persian literature and music. d. 725/1325 1 text
- Anonymous
- Anṣārī Haravī / Šaykh al-Islām Sufi, (d. 481)
- "Anvarī Poet, (d. 552)
- ʿĀrifī Hiravī Poet, (15th century)
- ʿĀrif Qandahārī Historian, (987/1579)
- Asad Big "Asad" Qazvīnī Emperor, known for his contemporary history entitled Ḥālāt-i Asad Big, (1011... d. 1041/1631–2
- ʿAṭṭār Sufi poet; author of the Conference of the Birds (Manṭiq al-Ṭayr). d. 627/1230 1 text
- author of Unknown author 1 text
- ʿAwfī Bukhara-born anthologist; compiled the Lubāb al-albāb, the earliest survey of Persian poets, in Sind. d. ca. 630/1232–3 1 text
- Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī Poet, (12th century)
- Awliyā (725/1325)
- Awrangzīb (ʿĀlamgīr I) Mughal emperor (r. 1658–1707). d. 1118/1707 3 texts
- Āzād al-Ḥusaynī known for his work Nawbahār-i Muršid Qulī Ḫānī, (1142/1...
- ʿAzīm al-Dīn known for his work Fatḥ-nāmah, (1197/1783)
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- Bābā Ṭāhir ʿUryān Early dialect poet, beloved for his quatrains (dūbaytī). 1 text
- Bābur First Mughal emperor; author of the Bāburnāma, the great royal memoir. d. 937/1530 3 texts
- Badāʾūnī Mughal historian; outspoken critic of Akbar's religious policy. d. 1024/1615 5 texts
- Baḫtāvar Ḫān Ruler d. 1096/1685
- Bāqir Ḫān Author, author of the work Mawʿiẓah-yi Jahāngīrī, (1047/1636)
- Baranī Historian, (14th century) d. ca. 758/1357
- Bāsiṭ Historian, known for the work Tārīḫ-i mamālik-i Hind, (1191/1777) fl. ca. 1196/1781–2
- Bayhaqī Historian of the Ghaznavid period d. 470/1077
- Bayżavī Historian, (680/1281) d. 684/1285–6, 685/1286–7, 691-2/1292–3, 708/1308–09, after 710/1310–11, or in 716/1316–17
- Bhakkarī Author, known for his work Ẕaḫīraħ al-qawānīn, (1060/1650)
- Bhīmsin ibn Raghūnandandās Emperor, (1068/1658)
- Bīdil Mystic, (18th century)
- Biğamī (14th century)
- Bihāmad Ḫānī Historian, (797/1394)
- Bilgrāmī Scholar, (987/1579)
- Bindrāban ibn Rāy Bihārā Mal Emperor, known for his work of history entitled Lubb al-tavārīḫ-i Hind fl. ca. 1101/1689–90
- Blochmann
- E. G. Browne English orientalist; author of A Literary History of Persia. 5 texts
- Budh Sīngh Khatrī Historian of 18th-century India. 1 text
- Burhān Ḫān
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- Dārā Šukūh Poet, (1069/1659)
- Davvānī Philosopher and theologian; author of the Akhlāq-i Jalālī. 1 text
- Dawlatšāh ibn ʿAla' al-Dawlah Baḫtīšāh Samarqandī Author, known for his well-regarded anthology of poets entitled Taẕkiraħ al-š... d. ca. 896/1490–1 or 900/1494–5
- Mīrzā Ḥaydar Dughlāt Prince of Kashmir and historian; author of the Tārīkh-i Rashīdī. d. 958/1551 3 texts
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- Faḫr al-Dīn Historian, known for his work Tārīḫ-i Banākatī, (701/1301) d. 730/1329–30
- Faḫr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mansur Quraysi Mubārak Šāh
- Falakī Šīrvānī (555/1160)
- Faqīr-Allāh (1076/1665)
- Faqīr Dihlavī Poet and literary critic of 18th-century Delhi. d. 1183/1769 1 text
- Fattāḥī Nīshābūrī Poet of allegorical romances (15th c.). 1 text
- Fayżī Poet, (1004/1595) d. 1004/1595
- Fażl-Allāh al-Amīn ibn Rūzbihān Ḫunjī Scholar, (15th century)
- Field
- Findiriski
- Firdawsī Author of the Shāhnāma, the Persian national epic. d. 410/1019, 411/1020, or 416/1025 10 texts
- Firishta Astarābād-born; became the great historian of the Deccan (Tārīkh-i Firishta). d. after 1033/1623–4 5 texts
- Fīrūz Šāh Tuğluq (752/1351) d. 790/1388
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- "Ğaybī Emperor, (1034/1624)
- Al-Ghazālī Theologian and mystic; author of the Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn. 1 text
- Ğiyāš al-Dīn Naqqāš
- Gottheil
- Gubind Sīngh Author, (1086/1675)
- Ğulām ʿAlī Khān Historian of the late Mughal period (18th c.). 1 text
- Ğulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʾī Historian of 18th-c. India; author of the Siyar al-Mutaʾakhkhirīn. 5 texts
- Gulbadan Bēgam Mughal princess; author of the Humāyūn-nāma. d. 1011/1603 1 text
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- Ḥāfiẓ The supreme lyric poet of Persian, master of the ghazal (14th c.). d. 791/1389 or 792/1390 2 texts
- Ḥāfiẓ-i Abrū Historian, (15th century) d. 833/1430
- Hamadānī Emperor, known for his work entitled Tabaqāt-i Šāh Jahānī, (10...
- Har Čaran Dās Historian, known for his work Čahār gulzār-i Šujāʿ... fl. ca. 1201/1786–7
- Al-Ḥarīrī Arabic master of the Maqāmāt, the classic of rhymed prose. 3 texts
- Harkaran Mughal secretary; author of the Inshā-yi Harkaran, a model letter-book. 1 text
- Ḥasan Big Rūmlū (948/1541)
- Hātif-i Iṣfahānī Poet, known for a Tarjīʿ-band (strophic poem) on the subject of the uniqueness of G...
- [Pseudo-] Ḥātim Ḥātim Ṭāʾī, legendary paragon of generosity and hero of popular romance. fl. 6th/12th c. 1 text
- Ḥaydar Malik Emperor, (1016/1607)
- Ḫayr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ilāhābādī Historian, (1209/1794) d. ca. 1243/1827
- Ḥazīn Lāhījī Poet and memoirist; fled Safavid Iran and settled in Benares. d. 1180/1766 1 text
- Hujvīrī Sufi, (465/1072)
- Ḥusām al-Dīn (17th century)
- Ḥusayn ʿAlī Khān Kirmānī Historian; chronicler of the rulers of Mysore. fl. ca. 1217/1802 3 texts
- H wāfī Poet, (940/1533) d. 940/1533–4
- Ḫwāfī Ḫān / Hafi Ḫān Niẓām-al-Mulki Historian, author of a history of the Mughals entitled Muntaḫab al-Lubāb d. ca. 1145–46/1732–33
- Ḫwāndamīr Historian, (880/1475) d. ca. 942/1535–6
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- Ibn al-Balkhī Historian and geographer of Fārs; author of the Fārs-nāma. 1 text
- Ibn ʿAta'-Allāh Mystic, (709/1309)
- Ibn Isfandiyār Historian of Ṭabaristān. 1 text
- Ibn Sīnā
- Ibn Yamīn Poet, (724/1323)
- Ibrāhīm ibn Jarīr Historian, (956/1549) fl. ca. 957/1550–1
- ʿInāyat-Allāh Kanbū Author of the Bahār-i Dānish, a celebrated collection of tales. d. 1082/1671 4 texts
- ʿInāyat Ḫān Historian, known for the Šāh Jahān-nāmah, (1068/1657) d. 1077/1666–7 or 1081/1670–1
- Irādat Khān Historian of the late Mughal court. d. 1128/1716 1 text
- "ʿIrāqī Poet, (688/1289)
- ʿIṣāmī Poet, (726/1326)
- Īsār Dās Nāgar Historian, (1110/1698)
- Iskandar Big Munšī Historian, (907/1501)
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- Jahāndār Šāh ibn Šāh ʿĀlam
- Jahāngīr Mughal emperor; author of the Tūzuk-i Jahāngīrī memoirs. d. 1037/1627 4 texts
- Jamāl al-Dīn Hwansari
- Jamāl ibn Mīr Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥusaynī Šīrāzī Ruler, (926/1520) fl. ca. 1065/1654–5
- Jāmī The last great classical Persian poet; author of the Haft Awrang. d. 898/1492 5 texts
- Jawhar Āftābchī Humāyūn's attendant; author of an intimate memoir of the emperor. fl. ca. 995/1586–7 1 text
- Jili fl. 6th/12th c.
- Jur'at Poet, (1175/1761)
- Jurjānī Poet, (447/1055)
- Juvaynī Historian, (654/1256) d. 681/1283
- Jūzjānī / Minhāj ibn Sirāj Historian, known for certain but he most likely died reign of Sulṭān Ğ... fl. ca. 685/1260
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- Mīrzā Kalichbeg Fredunbeg Sindhi scholar; translator of the Čachnāma into English. 1 text
- Kamāl al-Dīn Iṣfahānī Poet, acknowledged master of the qaṣīda. 1 text
- Kāmgar Ḥusaynī Historian, known for his work of history entitled Maʾāir-i Jahāng&#x... d. 1050/1640–1
- Kamwār Ḫān Historian, known for his works of history fl. ca. 1137–38/1724–25
- Karam ʿAlī Historian, (1186/1772)
- Kāshifī Polymath and preacher; author of the Anwār-i Suhaylī. d. 910/1504–5 2 texts
- Kayka'us ibn (475/1082)
- Kīval Rām Emperor, known for his work Taẕkiraħ al-umarāʾ, (16th century)
- Kuka
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- Mahsatī Ganjavī Poet, (11th century)
- Majdī fl. ca. 1004/1595
- Šaraf al-Dīn Manērī Sufi master of Bihār, famed for his spiritual letters (Maktūbāt). d. 772/1371 or 781/1380 or 782/1381 1 text
- Mansārām (d. 1163)
- Manucihri
- Marzubān ibn Rustam
- Mīr ʿĀlam Author, author of Ḥadīqat al-ʿālam, (1175/1761)
- Mīr Khvānd Author of the Rawżat al-Ṣafāʾ, a celebrated universal history. d. 903/1498 6 texts
- Mīrzā Ḫān Prince, (1086/1675)
- Mufaẓẓal Ḫān Historian fl. ca. 1153/1740
- Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḫān Anṣārī Historian, (1173/1759) d. 1206/1791
- Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq Ḥusaynī Nīšābūrī Najafī Burhānpūrī Historian, (1148/1735) fl. ca. 1148/1735–6
- Muḥammad Amīn ibn Dawlat Muḥammad Ḥusaynī Historian, (1036/1626) fl. ca. 1036/1626–7
- Muḥammad Aslam ibn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ Parasrūrī Author fl. ca. 1184/1770–1
- Muḥammad Bahs "Asub d. 1199/1784–5
- Muḥammad Fāżil Ḫān (1227/1812)
- Muḥammad ibn al-Munavvar Sufi, known for his work Asrār al-tawḥīd fī maqāmāt al-...
- Muḥammad Ja'far Šāmlū Historian, known for his work Manāzil al-futūḥ, (1175/1761) fl. ca. 1175/1761
- Muḥammad Kāẓim ibn Muḥammad Amīn Historian d. 1092/1681
- Muḥammad Mahdī Khān Astarābādī Historian and secretary to Nādir Shāh. 1 text
- Muḥammad Maʿṣūm Nāmī Historian of Sind; author of the Tārīkh-i Sind. d. ca. 1015/1606–7 1 text
- Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Ḥanīf Historian, known for his work Jawhar-i Ṣamṣām, (1119/1707) fl. ca. 1153/1740–1
- Muḥammad Mustajāb Khān Historian; author of the Gulistān-i Raḥmat. d. 1248/1833 1 text
- Muḥammad Rabi
- Muḥammad Safi' "Vārid" ibn Muḥammad Šarīf Ṭiḥrānī Historian, (1146/1733) fl. ca. 1152/1739
- Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kanbū Lāhūrī Author, known for certain, (1070/1659) d. 1085/1674–5
- Muḥammad Šarīf al-Najafī Historian, known for his work Majālis al-salāṭīn, (1038/1628) fl. ca. 1038/1628–9
- Muḥaqqiq Ardabīlī Šiʿi jurist and theologian. 1 text
- Muḫliṣ 1 text
- Muḫliṣ (Ānand Rām) d. 1164/1750–1
- [Pseudo-] Muḥsin Fānī Attributed author of the Dabistān-i Maẕāhib, a survey of religions. 4 texts
- Murtażā Ḥusayn ʿUsmani Bilgrāmī Historian, (1142/1729) d. ca. 1210/1795
- Musta'idd Ḫān Historian, known for his work Maʾāir-i ʿĀlamgīrī d. ca. 1136/1723–4
- Mustanṣir-Bi-Allāh (15th century)
- "Muštāqī Ruler, known for his work Vāqiʿāt-i Muštāqī, (964/1556) d. 989/1581
- Ḥamd-Allāh Mustawfī Historian and geographer; author of the Tārīkh-i Guzīda and Nuzhat al-Qulūb. fl. ca. 740/1339–40 1 text
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- Nahcavani
- Naḫšābī Author of the Ṭūtī-nāma, the Tales of a Parrot, composed at Badaun. d. 751/1350 1 text
- Najm al-Dīn Rāzī Dāyah Sufi, (d. 654)
- Naršaḫī
- ʿAzīz al-Nasafī Sufi writer; expositor of theoretical mysticism. fl. 7th /13th c. 1 text
- Naṣīr al-Dīn
- Naṣīr ibn Ḫusraw / Naṣīr-i Ḫusraw
- Naw'i Poet, known for his work Sūz va gudāz, (1013/1604)
- R. A. Nicholson English orientalist; foremost translator of Rūmī's Masnavī. 1 text
- Ni'mat-Allāh ibn Ḥabīb-Allāh Haravī Historian d. 1024/1615
- Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Muqīm Haravī Historian, (993/1585) d. 1003/1594
- Niẓām al-Mulk (410/1019) d. 485/1092
- Niẓāmī Historian, (602/1205) fl. ca. 614/1217
- Niẓāmī ʿArūżī Samarqandī Author of the Chahār Maqāla (Four Discourses) on the courtly arts. fl. ca. 551-2/1156–7 1 text
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī Romantic epic poet; author of the Khamsa (the Five Treasures). d. 599/1203 or 605/1209 3 texts
- Nūr al-Ḥaqq "Mašriqī" Dihlavī Historian, (d. 256) d. 1073/1662
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- Rabi'ah bint Poet, known for certain except perhaps that she was a contemporary of the Poet Rūdakī...
- Rafi' al-Dīn Historian, (1097/1686)
- Rašīd al-Dīn Fażl-Allāh ibn ʿImād al-Dawlah / Rašīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb Historian, (d. 718) d. 718/1318
- Rawšan ʿAlī Jawnpūrī (1225/1810)
- "Rāzī Poet, author of this work, (1108/1696)
- Rousseau
- Rūmī Sufi poet of the Masnavī; inspiration of the Mevlevi order. d. 672/1273 4 texts
- Rustam ʿAlī Šāhābādī Historian, known for his work Tārīḫ-i Hindī, (1154/1741) fl. ca. 1154/1741–2
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- Ṣādiq Iṣfahānī Historian, (d. 1061)
- Saʿdī Shīrāzī Author of the Gulistān and Būstān; the great moralist of Persian prose and verse. d. ca. 690-1/1291–2 1 text
- "Šafīq" Awrangabādī
- Šāhnavāz Ḫān Awrangabādī (1171/1758) d. 1171/1758
- Sa'ib-i Tabrīzī Poet, (1088/1677)
- Salīm-Allāh Historian of Bengal. 1 text
- Samarqandī Historian, known for his work Maṭlaʿ-i saʿdayn va Majmaʿ-i baḥ... d. 887/1482
- Sana'i Gaznavi
- Šaraf al-Dīn ʿAlī "Šaraf" Yazdī Ruler, (15th century) d. 858/1454
- Sarūp Čand Ḫaṭṭrī Author, author of one known work, (1209/1794) fl. ca. 1209/1794–5
- Sayfī ʿArūżī Buḫārī Writer, known for his work on Persian prosody entitled ʿArūẓ-i Sayfī ...
- Shabistarī Author of the Gulshan-i Rāz (Garden of Mystery), the classic Sufi poem. 1 text
- Šihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ṭāliš Ruler, (1072/1661)
- Sikandar ibn Muḥammad Manjhū ibn Akbar Historian, known for his work Mirʾāt-i Sikandarī, (1021/1612)
- [Pseudo-] Sindbād The Sindbād-nāma — a classic Persian frame-tale collection. ca. 6th/12th c. 1 text
- Šīv-Paršād Historian, known for his work Tārīḫ-i Fayż-Baḫš, (1190/...
- Ṣūhrāvardī (Abū Hafs ʿUmar)
- Ṣūhrāvardī (Yaḥyā al-Maqtul)
- Sun'-Allāh Ğaybī Mystic
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- Tabataba'i Historian, known for his work Burhān al-maʾāir, (16th century)
- Ṭāhir Muḥammad "Nisyani" ibn Ḥasan Sabzavārī Tattavī Historian, (1008/1599) fl. ca. 1014/1606
- Tajallī ʿAlī Mystic, (1206/1792)
- Tīmūr The conqueror Tamerlane; the Malfūẓāt memoirs are ascribed to him. 1 text
- Ṭīpū Sulṭān Ruler of Mysore; his register of dreams and letters survive. 2 texts
- Tūrān Šāh Author, (758/1357)
- Turkman Author of a verse romance of Bāz Bahādur and Rūpmatī of Mālwa. 1 text
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- ʿUbayd-Allāh Zakani
- Ulugh Beg Tīmūrid prince and astronomer — the stargazing sulṭān of Samarqand. d. 853/1449 1 text
- ʿUmar Khayyām Astronomer and mathematician, famed in the West for the Rubāʿiyāt. d. ca. 517/1123 1 text
- Al-ʿUtbī Historian of the Ghaznavids; author of the Tārīkh-i Yamīnī. d. 427/1035–6 or 431/1039–40 1 text
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- Yādgār Historian, known for his work Tārīḫ-i salāṭīn-i Af... fl. ca. 965/1558
- Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Qazvīnī Historian, known for his work of history entitled Lubb al-tavārīḫ, (885/1441) d. 962/1555
- Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad Sihrīndī Historian, known for his work Tārīḫ-i Mubārak Šāh... fl. ca. 838/1434
- Yūsuf ʿAlī Historian, (18th century)
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Poets & Literature
- Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī Court poet of Delhi; pioneer of Indo-Persian literature and music. 1 text
- ʿAṭṭār Sufi poet; author of the Conference of the Birds (Manṭiq al-Ṭayr). 1 text
- Bābā Ṭāhir ʿUryān Early dialect poet, beloved for his quatrains (dūbaytī). 1 text
- Faqīr Dihlavī Poet and literary critic of 18th-century Delhi. 1 text
- Fattāḥī Nīshābūrī Poet of allegorical romances (15th c.). 1 text
- Firdawsī Author of the Shāhnāma, the Persian national epic. 10 texts
- Ḥāfiẓ The supreme lyric poet of Persian, master of the ghazal (14th c.). 2 texts
- Al-Ḥarīrī Arabic master of the Maqāmāt, the classic of rhymed prose. 3 texts
- [Pseudo-] Ḥātim Ḥātim Ṭāʾī, legendary paragon of generosity and hero of popular romance. 1 text
- Ḥazīn Lāhījī Poet and memoirist; fled Safavid Iran and settled in Benares. 1 text
- ʿInāyat-Allāh Kanbū Author of the Bahār-i Dānish, a celebrated collection of tales. 4 texts
- Jāmī The last great classical Persian poet; author of the Haft Awrang. 5 texts
- Kamāl al-Dīn Iṣfahānī Poet, acknowledged master of the qaṣīda. 1 text
- Naḫšābī Author of the Ṭūtī-nāma, the Tales of a Parrot, composed at Badaun. 1 text
- Niẓāmī ʿArūżī Samarqandī Author of the Chahār Maqāla (Four Discourses) on the courtly arts. 1 text
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī Romantic epic poet; author of the Khamsa (the Five Treasures). 3 texts
- Rūmī Sufi poet of the Masnavī; inspiration of the Mevlevi order. 4 texts
- Saʿdī Shīrāzī Author of the Gulistān and Būstān; the great moralist of Persian prose and verse. 1 text
- [Pseudo-] Sindbād The Sindbād-nāma — a classic Persian frame-tale collection. 1 text
- Turkman Author of a verse romance of Bāz Bahādur and Rūpmatī of Mālwa. 1 text
- ʿUmar Khayyām Astronomer and mathematician, famed in the West for the Rubāʿiyāt. 1 text
- Zīb al-Nisāʾ (Makhfī) Mughal princess and poet, daughter of Awrangzīb. 2 texts
Rulers & Memoirists
- Awrangzīb (ʿĀlamgīr I) Mughal emperor (r. 1658–1707). 3 texts
- Bābur First Mughal emperor; author of the Bāburnāma, the great royal memoir. 3 texts
- Gulbadan Bēgam Mughal princess; author of the Humāyūn-nāma. 1 text
- Jahāngīr Mughal emperor; author of the Tūzuk-i Jahāngīrī memoirs. 4 texts
- Jawhar Āftābchī Humāyūn's attendant; author of an intimate memoir of the emperor. 1 text
- Tīmūr The conqueror Tamerlane; the Malfūẓāt memoirs are ascribed to him. 1 text
- Ṭīpū Sulṭān Ruler of Mysore; his register of dreams and letters survive. 2 texts
- Ulugh Beg Tīmūrid prince and astronomer — the stargazing sulṭān of Samarqand. 1 text
Mystics & Philosophers
- Aflākī Hagiographer of Rūmī and the early Mevlevi order (Manāqib al-ʿĀrifīn). 1 text
- Davvānī Philosopher and theologian; author of the Akhlāq-i Jalālī. 1 text
- Al-Ghazālī Theologian and mystic; author of the Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn. 1 text
- Kāshifī Polymath and preacher; author of the Anwār-i Suhaylī. 2 texts
- Šaraf al-Dīn Manērī Sufi master of Bihār, famed for his spiritual letters (Maktūbāt). 1 text
- Muḥaqqiq Ardabīlī Šiʿi jurist and theologian. 1 text
- [Pseudo-] Muḥsin Fānī Attributed author of the Dabistān-i Maẕāhib, a survey of religions. 4 texts
- ʿAzīz al-Nasafī Sufi writer; expositor of theoretical mysticism. 1 text
- Shabistarī Author of the Gulshan-i Rāz (Garden of Mystery), the classic Sufi poem. 1 text
Historians & Chroniclers
- ʿAbd al-Karīm Kashmīrī Historian and traveller; author of the Bayān-i Wāqiʿ. 1 text
- Abū al-Fażl ʿAllāmī Vizier and historian to Emperor Akbar; author of the Akbarnāma. 8 texts
- Abū Ṭālib Khān Iṣfahānī Historian and traveller of Lucknow; wrote an account of his journey to Europe. 1 text
- Aḥmad al-Ğaffārī Qazvīnī Historian; author of universal chronicles. 1 text
- ʿAlī Kūfī Translator-author of the Čachnāma, history of the Arab conquest of Sind. 1 text
- ʿAlī Muḥammad Khān Bahādur Historian of Gujarāt (d. 1177/1763). 1 text
- ʿAwfī Bukhara-born anthologist; compiled the Lubāb al-albāb, the earliest survey of Persian poets, in Sind. 1 text
- Badāʾūnī Mughal historian; outspoken critic of Akbar's religious policy. 5 texts
- Budh Sīngh Khatrī Historian of 18th-century India. 1 text
- Mīrzā Ḥaydar Dughlāt Prince of Kashmir and historian; author of the Tārīkh-i Rashīdī. 3 texts
- Firishta Astarābād-born; became the great historian of the Deccan (Tārīkh-i Firishta). 5 texts
- Ğulām ʿAlī Khān Historian of the late Mughal period (18th c.). 1 text
- Ğulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʾī Historian of 18th-c. India; author of the Siyar al-Mutaʾakhkhirīn. 5 texts
- Harkaran Mughal secretary; author of the Inshā-yi Harkaran, a model letter-book. 1 text
- Ḥusayn ʿAlī Khān Kirmānī Historian; chronicler of the rulers of Mysore. 3 texts
- Ibn al-Balkhī Historian and geographer of Fārs; author of the Fārs-nāma. 1 text
- Ibn Isfandiyār Historian of Ṭabaristān. 1 text
- Irādat Khān Historian of the late Mughal court. 1 text
- Mīr Khvānd Author of the Rawżat al-Ṣafāʾ, a celebrated universal history. 6 texts
- Muḥammad Mahdī Khān Astarābādī Historian and secretary to Nādir Shāh. 1 text
- Muḥammad Maʿṣūm Nāmī Historian of Sind; author of the Tārīkh-i Sind. 1 text
- Muḥammad Mustajāb Khān Historian; author of the Gulistān-i Raḥmat. 1 text
- Muḫliṣ 1 text
- Ḥamd-Allāh Mustawfī Historian and geographer; author of the Tārīkh-i Guzīda and Nuzhat al-Qulūb. 1 text
- Salīm-Allāh Historian of Bengal. 1 text
- Al-ʿUtbī Historian of the Ghaznavids; author of the Tārīkh-i Yamīnī. 1 text
Translators & Editors
- E. G. Browne English orientalist; author of A Literary History of Persia. 5 texts
- W. A. Clouston Scottish folklorist; compiler of comparative tale studies. 1 text
- Šīr Henry M. Elliot English historian; compiler of The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians. 9 texts
- Mīrzā Kalichbeg Fredunbeg Sindhi scholar; translator of the Čachnāma into English. 1 text
- R. A. Nicholson English orientalist; foremost translator of Rūmī's Masnavī. 1 text
Persian was the literary language of half a world, not one country. More of these authors wrote in Mughal India than anywhere else — far more than in Iran itself.
Mughal India & the Deccan
- ʿAbd al-Karīm Kashmīrī Historian and traveller; author of the Bayān-i Wāqiʿ. 1 text
- Abū al-Fażl ʿAllāmī Vizier and historian to Emperor Akbar; author of the Akbarnāma. 8 texts
- Abū Ṭālib Khān Iṣfahānī Historian and traveller of Lucknow; wrote an account of his journey to Europe. 1 text
- ʿAlī Kūfī Translator-author of the Čachnāma, history of the Arab conquest of Sind. 1 text
- ʿAlī Muḥammad Khān Bahādur Historian of Gujarāt (d. 1177/1763). 1 text
- Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī Court poet of Delhi; pioneer of Indo-Persian literature and music. 1 text
- ʿAwfī Bukhara-born anthologist; compiled the Lubāb al-albāb, the earliest survey of Persian poets, in Sind. 1 text
- Awrangzīb (ʿĀlamgīr I) Mughal emperor (r. 1658–1707). 3 texts
- Bābur First Mughal emperor; author of the Bāburnāma, the great royal memoir. 3 texts
- Badāʾūnī Mughal historian; outspoken critic of Akbar's religious policy. 5 texts
- Budh Sīngh Khatrī Historian of 18th-century India. 1 text
- Mīrzā Ḥaydar Dughlāt Prince of Kashmir and historian; author of the Tārīkh-i Rashīdī. 3 texts
- Faqīr Dihlavī Poet and literary critic of 18th-century Delhi. 1 text
- Firishta Astarābād-born; became the great historian of the Deccan (Tārīkh-i Firishta). 5 texts
- Ğulām ʿAlī Khān Historian of the late Mughal period (18th c.). 1 text
- Ğulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʾī Historian of 18th-c. India; author of the Siyar al-Mutaʾakhkhirīn. 5 texts
- Gulbadan Bēgam Mughal princess; author of the Humāyūn-nāma. 1 text
- Harkaran Mughal secretary; author of the Inshā-yi Harkaran, a model letter-book. 1 text
- Ḥazīn Lāhījī Poet and memoirist; fled Safavid Iran and settled in Benares. 1 text
- Ḥusayn ʿAlī Khān Kirmānī Historian; chronicler of the rulers of Mysore. 3 texts
- ʿInāyat-Allāh Kanbū Author of the Bahār-i Dānish, a celebrated collection of tales. 4 texts
- Irādat Khān Historian of the late Mughal court. 1 text
- Jahāngīr Mughal emperor; author of the Tūzuk-i Jahāngīrī memoirs. 4 texts
- Jawhar Āftābchī Humāyūn's attendant; author of an intimate memoir of the emperor. 1 text
- Mīrzā Kalichbeg Fredunbeg Sindhi scholar; translator of the Čachnāma into English. 1 text
- Šaraf al-Dīn Manērī Sufi master of Bihār, famed for his spiritual letters (Maktūbāt). 1 text
- Muḥammad Maʿṣūm Nāmī Historian of Sind; author of the Tārīkh-i Sind. 1 text
- Muḥammad Mustajāb Khān Historian; author of the Gulistān-i Raḥmat. 1 text
- Muḫliṣ 1 text
- [Pseudo-] Muḥsin Fānī Attributed author of the Dabistān-i Maẕāhib, a survey of religions. 4 texts
- Naḫšābī Author of the Ṭūtī-nāma, the Tales of a Parrot, composed at Badaun. 1 text
- Salīm-Allāh Historian of Bengal. 1 text
- Ṭīpū Sulṭān Ruler of Mysore; his register of dreams and letters survive. 2 texts
- Turkman Author of a verse romance of Bāz Bahādur and Rūpmatī of Mālwa. 1 text
- Zīb al-Nisāʾ (Makhfī) Mughal princess and poet, daughter of Awrangzīb. 2 texts
Iran & Khurāsān
- Aḥmad al-Ğaffārī Qazvīnī Historian; author of universal chronicles. 1 text
- ʿAṭṭār Sufi poet; author of the Conference of the Birds (Manṭiq al-Ṭayr). 1 text
- Bābā Ṭāhir ʿUryān Early dialect poet, beloved for his quatrains (dūbaytī). 1 text
- Davvānī Philosopher and theologian; author of the Akhlāq-i Jalālī. 1 text
- Fattāḥī Nīshābūrī Poet of allegorical romances (15th c.). 1 text
- Firdawsī Author of the Shāhnāma, the Persian national epic. 10 texts
- Al-Ghazālī Theologian and mystic; author of the Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn. 1 text
- Ḥāfiẓ The supreme lyric poet of Persian, master of the ghazal (14th c.). 2 texts
- Ibn al-Balkhī Historian and geographer of Fārs; author of the Fārs-nāma. 1 text
- Ibn Isfandiyār Historian of Ṭabaristān. 1 text
- Jāmī The last great classical Persian poet; author of the Haft Awrang. 5 texts
- Kamāl al-Dīn Iṣfahānī Poet, acknowledged master of the qaṣīda. 1 text
- Kāshifī Polymath and preacher; author of the Anwār-i Suhaylī. 2 texts
- Mīr Khvānd Author of the Rawżat al-Ṣafāʾ, a celebrated universal history. 6 texts
- Muḥammad Mahdī Khān Astarābādī Historian and secretary to Nādir Shāh. 1 text
- Muḥaqqiq Ardabīlī Šiʿi jurist and theologian. 1 text
- Ḥamd-Allāh Mustawfī Historian and geographer; author of the Tārīkh-i Guzīda and Nuzhat al-Qulūb. 1 text
- Saʿdī Shīrāzī Author of the Gulistān and Būstān; the great moralist of Persian prose and verse. 1 text
- Shabistarī Author of the Gulshan-i Rāz (Garden of Mystery), the classic Sufi poem. 1 text
- ʿUmar Khayyām Astronomer and mathematician, famed in the West for the Rubāʿiyāt. 1 text
- Al-ʿUtbī Historian of the Ghaznavids; author of the Tārīkh-i Yamīnī. 1 text
Central Asia & Transoxiana
- ʿAzīz al-Nasafī Sufi writer; expositor of theoretical mysticism. 1 text
- Niẓāmī ʿArūżī Samarqandī Author of the Chahār Maqāla (Four Discourses) on the courtly arts. 1 text
- Tīmūr The conqueror Tamerlane; the Malfūẓāt memoirs are ascribed to him. 1 text
- Ulugh Beg Tīmūrid prince and astronomer — the stargazing sulṭān of Samarqand. 1 text
The Caucasus & Anatolia
The Arab Lands
Modern Editors (Britain)
- E. G. Browne English orientalist; author of A Literary History of Persia. 5 texts
- W. A. Clouston Scottish folklorist; compiler of comparative tale studies. 1 text
- Šīr Henry M. Elliot English historian; compiler of The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians. 9 texts
- R. A. Nicholson English orientalist; foremost translator of Rūmī's Masnavī. 1 text
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