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Also Known As Abū ʿAbdollāh Jaʿfar ibn Moḥammad
Born c.859 • Iran
Died 940 or 941 • Iran
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Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
Iranian author
Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Ghalib
Indian poet
Edward FitzGerald, miniature portrait by Eva Rivett-Carnac after a photograph of 1873; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Edward FitzGerald
British author
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Ahmed Ali
Pakistani writer
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Paul Bowles
American composer, translator, and author
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Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
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Joseph Kimhi
European grammarian
János Mailáth, lithograph by J. Ruprecht.
János, Count Mailáth
Hungarian author
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
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Judah ben Solomon Harizi
Spanish-Jewish 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
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
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ
Persian 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
Khāqānī
Khāqānī
Persian poet

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