The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian writers and poets from Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. This list is alphabetized by chronological order. Although a few authors in this list do not have their ethnic origin, nevertheless they have enriched Persian culture and civilization by their remarkable contributions to the rich Persian literature. The modern Persian speaker comprehends the literature of the earliest Persian poets including founder of the Persian poetry and literature Rudaki[1] (approximately 1150 years ago) all the way down to the works of modern Persian poets. Some names that lived during the turn of a century appear twice.

From the 7th to the 8th centuries

• Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi[2]

9th century

• Rudaki (رودکی)
• Muhammad al-Bukhari Persian Islamic Scholar, (810 - 870)
• Mansur Al-Hallaj (منصور حلاج)
• Shahid Balkhi (ابوالحسن شهيدبن حسين جهودانکي بلخی)
• Abu Hafs Sughdi

10th century

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

15th century

• Jami, poet (1414–1492)
• Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, poet (1441–1501)
• Badriddin Hilali, poet (1470–1529)
• Imrani, poet (1454–1536)
• Fuzûlî, poet (1494–1556) فضولی

16th century

• Muhammad Arshad, Bengali author
• Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620)
• Syed Pir Badshah, Bengali author
• Vahshi Bafghi
• Ali Sher Bengali, religious author
• Syed Shah Israil, Bengali poet
• Nahapet Kuchak
• Teimuraz I of Kakheti (Tahmuras Khan)
• Syed Rayhan ad-Din, Bengali poet

17th century

• Shah Abdur Rahim, Indian religious scholar
• Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Indian religious leader
• Teimuraz I of Kakheti (Tahmuras Khan)
• Saib Tabrizi, poet (1601/02-1677)
• Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil (1642–1720)
• Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708) - Composed the famous Zafarnamah
• Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi (1637–1702)
• Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620)
• Bhai Nand Lal (1633–1713)
• Gani Kashmiri (c. 1630 – c. 1669)

18th century

• Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi, Indian religious scholar (شاه عبد العزیز دهلوی)
• Ram Mohan Roy, Bengali Hindu reformer (رام موهن رای)
• Hazin Lahiji (حزین لاهیجی)
• Izzatullah Bengali (عزّت‌الله بنگالی), author
• Hatef Esfehani, poet (هاتف اصفهانی)
• Lutfullah Tabrizi (لطف‌الله تبریزی)
• Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, (مرزا اسد اللہ خان غالب)
• I'tisam-ud-Din, Bengali diplomat (اعتصام الدین)

19th century

20th century

21st century

• Qeysar Aminpour قیصر امین‌پور (Romanized: Ğeysar AminPur)
• Mohammad Hanif (Iranian writer), novelist and literary scholar محمد حنیف7

See also

• Authors from Iran
• Iranian poets
• List of Iranian scientists and scholars
• List of Iranian writers

References

• Morteza Motahhari, Khadamāt-i mutaqābil-i Islām va Īrān, c 1350s Vol 14, p583-590 OCLC 34476860
• E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
• Mohammad Mokhtary Mashhad 1944 – Tehran 2002. Writer of Siavash nameh published by Bonyad-e-Shahnameh. writer of Tarikhe ostorehhay-e-Iran. one of the Persian researchers. Murdered by Islamic regime. He was one of the 72 Persians murdered by Emami terror team (Ghatlhaye zangirehi). kidnapped on his way home and choked to dead.
• Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. ISBN 90-277-0143-1 OCLC 460598 LCC PK6097.R913 ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K
• ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Zarrīnʹkūb (2000) [1379]. Dū qarn-i sukūt : sarguz̲asht-i ḥavādis̲ va awz̤āʻ-i tārīkhī dar dū qarn-i avval-i Islām (Two Centuries of Silence). Tihrān: Sukhan. OCLC 46632917. ISBN 964-5983-33-6.
• R.M. Chopra, "Eminent Poetesses of Persian", 2010, Iran Society, Kolkata.
• R.M. Chopra, "Great Poets of Classical Persian", 2014, Sparrow Publication, Kolkata, ISBN 978-81-89140-75-5

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