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Also Known As Nefʾi of Erzurum • Ömer
Born c.1572 • Turkey
Died 1635 • Istanbul • Turkey
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Kemalpaşazâde
Turkish historian
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Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli
Turkish author
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ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī
Turkish poet
Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Ghalib
Indian poet
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Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
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Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
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Ziya Gökalp
Turkish author
Saʿdī, detail of a 17th-century miniature from a manuscript (1581) of the Gulistān; in the British Library (Royal Asiatic Society loan 5).
Saʿdī
Persian poet
Kemal, Namik
Namık Kemal
Turkish author and social reformer
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ
Persian author
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Aşık Paşa
Turkish author
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Nazım Hikmet
Turkish author
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Nāṣer-e Khusraw
Persian author
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Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
Persian poet
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Anvarī
Persian poet
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Taceddin Ahmedi
Turkish author
Kanık, Orhan Veli
Orhan Veli Kanık
Turkish poet
Khāqānī
Khāqānī
Persian poet

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