Dawlatshah Samarqandi
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Dawlatshah Samarqandi was a poet and biographer active under the Timurid Empire. He is principally known for composing the Tadhkirat al-shu'ara, a Persian biographical dictionary of 152 poets, conside
Folio of the Tadhkirat al-shu'ara by Dawlatshah Samarqandi
Ali-Shir Nava'i
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Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literat
16th-century portrait of Ali-Shir Nava'i by Mahmud Muzahhib, now located in the Museum of the Astan Quds Razavi in Mashhad, Iran
Mystics in a garden, an illustration to Sadd-i Iskandari by Qasim Ali. Herat, c. 1485. Bodleian Library
A page from Nava'i's diwan. From the library of Suleiman the Magnificent.
The top exterior of Nava'i's Khamsa (Five Poems) on display at the Walters Art Museum. This copy dates to the 16th century.