The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere.
6th century
Mishdar Bamshad Nagisa
From the 7th to the 8th centuries Bassam Kurd, poet () Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi, poet ()
9th century
10th century
Ferdowsi فردوسی Abusaeid Abolkheir ابوسعید ابوالخیر Rudaki رودکی Abu Mansur Daqiqi ابومنصور دقیقی Mansur Al-Hallaj منصور حلاج Unsuri عنصری Rabi'a Balkhi رابعه بلخی Asjadi عَسجَدی Farrukhi Sistani فرخی سیستانی Isma'il Muntasir اسماعیل منتصیر Kisai Marvazi کسائی مروزی Abu Shakur Balkhi ابوشکور بلخی Abu Tahir Khosrovani (ابوطاهر خسروانی) Qabus, Qabus ibn Wushmagir, poet (died 1012) ابوالحسن قابوس بن وشمگیر بن زیار, شمس المعالی Ayyuqi عیوقی Khwaja Abdullah Ansari خواجه عبدالله انصاری Shahid Balkhi شهید بلخی Daqiqi دقیقی Ma'ruf Balkhi معروف بلخی Munjik Tirmidhi Li Shunxian (李舜弦) a concubine of the Chinese Emperor Wang Yan (Wang Zongyan) Abu Taieb MosabiRudaki, Abu Abdullah Jafar bin Muhammad; (1998) Diwan Rudaki Samarkandi, edited by Youssef Samoilovich Braginski, edited by Saeed Nafisi, Tehran, Negah Publishing House, second edition, p. 88. Nafisi, Arghvan magazine, p. 11th year p. 6 Aghaji Bukhari Abbas Rabenjani Abul'Ala ShushtariMohammad Moin, page 2044 Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, page 634 The last two verses are only found in the dictionary and are not found in Peshahangan Persian poetry. Mohammad Debirsiaghi pp. 177–178 Abul'Muid Balkhi Abdullah Junaidi Istighnayi NishaburiMohammad Debirsiaghi, Persian Poetry Scouts, Scientific and Cultural Publishing Company Aufi mentions him in Lubab ul-Albab Badi' Balkhi Bashar Marghazi Bondar Razi Bolmasal Bukhari Hakak Marghazi Khabazi Nishaburi Khusravi SarkhasiDr. Ahmed Ranjbar (1984), Great Khorasan, Amirkabir Publications Institute Runaqi Bukhari Sepehri Bukhari Shakir Jalab Tahir Chagani Tayan ZhazkhayFarhang-e Asadi,Asadi Tusi Amareh Marvazi Qamari Jurjani LokeriRashid Yasmi, Gholamreza (1994). "Switzerland". Kaveh (Munich) (57): 75. History of Literature in Iran by Dr. Zabihullah Safa. Abu Ahmad Kateb Masoudi Marvazi Manteqi RaziSaadat, Encyclopedia of Persian Language and Literature, 233. Saadat, Encyclopedia of Persian Language and Literature, 234. Safa, history of Iranian literature, 431. Saadat, Encyclopedia of Persian Language and Literature, 235.
11th century
Abu Ishaq of Kazerun, Master Sufi poet (963–1035) ابواسحاق کازرونی al-Biruni (973–c. 1050) Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani Abu'l Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (d. 1037) Asad Gorgani Omar Khayyám, poet (1048–1131) Sanai, poet (1080–1131/1141) حکیم ابوالمجد مجدود بن آدم سنایی غزنوی Hujviri d1073 Abdul Qadir Gilani Manuchihri Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian Abu'l-Hasan Bayhaqi Nasir Khusraw, traveler, writer and poet Baba Tahir Oryan Rabi'ah Quzdari Abu-al-faraj Runi Keykavus Eskandar Nizam al-Mulk, author of Siyasatnama Azraqi Masud Sa'd Salman Uthman Mukhtari Qatran Tabrizi Asadi Tusi اسدی طوسی Imam Muhammad Ghazali Abhari Uthman Mukhtari Athir al-Din Akhsikati Kafarak Ghaznavi LabibiFarhag-e Asadi, Asadi Tusi Farhang-i Jahangiri
12th century
Suzani Samarqandi, poet (d. 1166) شمس‌الدینْ محمد بن علی Adib Sabir ادیب صابر Am'aq عَمْعَق بخارائی Anvari انوری اَبیوَردی Farid al-Din Attar, poet (1145–1221) فریدالدین عطار نیشابوری/نیشاپوری Nizami, poet (c. 1140 – c. 1203) نظامی Sheikh Ruzbehan شیخ روزبهان Abdul Qadir Gilani عبدالقادر گیلانی Khaqani Shirvani خاقانی شروانی Sanaayi سنایی Sheikh Ahmad Jami Muhammad Aufi Falaki Shirvani Hassan Ghaznavi, poet Sanai Ghaznavi, poet Mu'izzi Ibn Balkhi Uthman Mukhtari Mahsati, poet مَهْسَتی گنجوی Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat خواجه رشیدالدین وَطْواط Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi نظامی عروضی سمرقندی
13th century
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, poet (1207–1273) Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (1213/14 – 1289) Sultan Walad Saadi, poet (1184–1283/1291?) Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1318) Shams Tabrizi Sheikh Ruzbehan Zahed Gilani Khwaju Kermani Mahmoud Shabestari Najmeddin Razi Zartosht Bahram-e Pazhdo Muhammad Aufi Qazi Beiza'i Nizari Quhistani Awhadi Maraghai Humam-i Tabrizi (1213/14 – 1289) Auhaduddin Kermani Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din Ata-Malik Juvayni Nasreddin Abu Tawwama (died 1300) Kamal al-Din Isfahani Afdal al-Din Kashani Badr JajarmiZabihullah Safa, History of Literature in Iran, Volume III, Part I, pp. 5-558 Basati Samarqandi Keykavus RaziZabihullah Safa (1342), History of Literature in Iran, Tehran: Ibn Sina, p. 448
14th century
Hafez, poet (born about 1310–1325) حافظ Amir Khusrow, امیر خسرو دهلوی Shah Shoja Mozaffari شاه شجاع مظفری Ubayd Zakani عبید زاکانی Jahan Malek Khatun جهان ملک خاتون Pur-Baha Jami پور بهار جامی Assar Tabrizi عصار تبریزی Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, میر سید علی ابن شہاب الدین ہمدانی - Islamic preacher traveller and poet (1314–1384) Padishah Khatun پادشاه خاتون Kamal Khujandi, poet, Sufism (1321–1401) Shahin Shirazi Junayd Shirazi Qasem-e Anvar Saif Farghani (d. 1348) Imadaddin Nasimi Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with Hafez Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din Shah Nimatullah Wali Maghrebi Tabrizi Nur Qutb Alam, Bengali religious scholar Salman Savaji Ibn Nasuh Shirazi Sharaf al-Din Ram*Ṣanʻaʼ - Ṣawtiyya (New ed. ed.). Leiden [u.a.]: Brill [u.a.] 1995. p. 422-423. ISBN 9004098348. RAM! TABRIZI, SHARAF AL-DIN HASAN b. Muhammad, Persian rhetorician and poet, who flourished in the middle of the 8th/14th century Mohammad Ali Tarbiat, the scientists of Azerbaijan, p. 189 Heydar ShiraziDiwan Haider Shirazi. Pages 54 p., 58 p., 61 p. - 60 p Muin al-Din Jovaini"Investigation of the stylistic characteristics of Jovaini. Stylistics of Persian poetry and prose (Bahar Adeb). 6 (20): 57-75. Junayd ShiraziMohammad Taghi Mir, Pars nobles, first volume, page 457 Shahab al-Din Bidavoni- Ohadi Beliani, Arafat al-Ashqin and Arsat al-Arifin, Vol. 4, by the efforts of Zabihullah Sahbakari and Amina Fakhrahamd, with the scientific supervision of Mohammad Kahraman, Mirath Maktoob Research Center, Tehran, 2010. Naser BejehieSafa, Zabihullah (November 2013). The history of literature in Iran and in the territory of the Persian language: from the end of the 8th century to the beginning of the 10th century. Tehran: Ferdous Publications. pp. 646-648. Shabak 978-964-320-311-5. Imad al-Din FazlaviTarikh-i guzida attributes to him a treatise on the complaints of the Akhwan and Dhim Zaman Shams al-Din KashaniFor the first time, Edgard Blochet, a French orientalist, introduced him in the third volume of the catalog of manuscripts of the National Library of Paris. Imad KermaniComparison of Tariqatnameh of Emaduddin Faqih Kermani and Misbah Al-Hudaiyeh Ezzuddin Mahmood Kashani, Normagz, written by Tahira Khushal Dastjardi, Fall and Winter 2013, Scientific-Research Issue 14, page 77 Daneshwar, Mohammad, The Lasting Faces, Publications: Kerman Science Center, Volume 1, Page: 327 Dolatshah Samarkandi's ID card, page: 192 Nizam al-Din QariAli Akbar Dehkhoda and others, keyword "Nizam al-Din Qari", Dehkhoda dictionary (retrieved on 30 September 2014). Literature Library of Astan Quds Razavi Documentation Center. Retrieved 20 September 2015. Nasraullah Zerek (spring 2010). "Analysis of the structure and use of parodies of Diwan al-Baseh Nizam Qari Yazdi". Persian Literature Quarterly of Mashhad Azad University, No. 29. Received on 30 September 1394 Jalal al-Din Atighi Tabrizi Jalal Tabib ShiraziBahramian, Masih. "Reflection on Diwan Jalal Tabib Shirazi" (PDF). Dor Dari Quarterly (1): 39-59. Afshar, Iraj (2008). "Iranology: news and fragments of Iranology (63)". Bukhara (71): 112. Jalal Azod Hassan Mutekalim Rukn Davi-DarTourj Ziniwand, Leila Qalandralaki Soltani, Reflection of Arabic culture and poetry in Diwan Rokn al-Din Davidar Qomi poet Zullasanin, Comparative Literature Journal, Winter 2009: 1(3):135–156. Jalal Ukkashe Jam Juna I
15th century
Jami, poet (1414–1492) Ahli Shirazi Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, poet (1441–1501) Azari Tusi (1380–1462) Badriddin Hilali, poet (1470–1529) Emrani, poet (1454–1536) Fuzûlî, poet (1494–1556) Amir Shahi SabzevariZabihullah Safa, History of Literature in Iran, Tehran: Ibn Sina, p. 448 Esmat Bukhari Sharaf al-Din SabzevariSabzevar city of wake scholars Mahmud Beihaghi,. p. 61. Hamedi Isfahani Qbuli HeraviHervey's acceptance (2008). Khan Mohammad Azari, Yahya Katebi TarshiziHedayat, Reza Qoli khan (2008). "Katabi Tarshizi". In Nusratullah Forohar. Riyadh al-Arifin. By the efforts of Seyyed Razi Vahedi and Sohrab Zare. *Tehran: Amir Kabir Publications. p. 156. Zabihullah Safa. History of literature in Iran. Tehran: Ibn Sina. p. 448. Iraj Saadatmand Tondari (2008). Tarshiz 1 - (a look at the history and geography of Kashmir). Mashhad: Zarih Aftab Cultural, Artistic and Publishing Institute. p. 296. Asefi Heravi Zana Lorestani (زانا لرستانی) Vahid Tabrizi (وحید تبریزی) Fahmi AstarabadiMuntakhab-ut-Tawarikh, 289-299
16th century
Aghdasi Mashhadi Sheikh Bahaii, scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546–1620) (شیخ بهایی) Vahshi Bafghi, poet (وحشی بافقی) Hatefi, nephew of the poet Jami (هاتفی) Taleb Amoli (1586–1627) (طالب آملی) Baba Fighani Shirazi (بابا فغانی شیرازی) Naw'i Khabushani (نوعی خَبوشانی) 'Orfi Shirazi (عرفی شیرازی) Faizi (فیضی) Mohtasham Kashani (محتشم کاشانی) Nahapet Kuchak Teimuraz I of Kakheti (Tahmuras Khan) Qazi Nurullah Shustari Firishta Muhammad Zuhuri (died 1616) Rafi al-Din Shirazi Sanai MashhadiZabihullah Safa (2011). History of Iranian literature. J. Fourth. Tehran: Ferdous Publications. pp. 296-300. Hazegh Gilani Sahabi AstarabadiThe history of Iranian literature, written by Zabihullah Safa, edited by Mohammad Torabi, volume 4, pages 317–320, Ferdous Publications, 7th edition, 2009 Partovi Shirazi Sharaf Jahan QazviniAhsan al-Tawarikh (416) History of literature in Iran (5/679-691) Pub license (151) Shahidi Qumi Ghazali MashhadiHistory of Iranian literature. Zabihullah Safa, the fifth volume. Firdous Publications. Fekri Jameh-BafRiyad al-Arifin Che Sangi, pp. 226-227 Ghasemi GonabadiSharifi, Mohammad (1387). Mohammadreza Jafari, editor. Persian literature culture. Tehran: New Culture and Moin Publications. Shabak 8-41-978-964-7443. Lesani ShiraziLesani Shirazi, Abdullah bin Mohammad (2013). Kerami, Mohammad Hossein Meili Mashhadi Naziri Nishapuri Vali DashtbayaziSafa, Zabihullah, History of Literature in Iran, Volume 5, Part 2, Tehran, 1990 Saeedzadeh, Seyyed Mohsen, Bozurgan Qain, Qom, 1991 Darvishi DahakiMajlis al-Nafais pp. 118 and 290 to 292 Nizam Astarabadi(Rehanah Al-Adab, vol. 4, p. 207) Heyrati TuniJavadi, Hossein, Mashahir of Tun, Hamiyaran Javan Publications, 2005 Khari Tabrizi Khajeghi Enayat"The Elders of Kashan, Afshin Atefi" Sabri IsfahaniZabihullah Safa: History of literature in Iran, vol. 5, section 1, Tehran. Tarhi Shirazi Shuja Kor Kami QazviniNafais Al-Maaser's Tazkera Hejri Qumi Heydar Kuliche-PazFakhri Heravi, the translator of Majlis Al-Nafais Tazkira, Amir Alishir Nawai, and the author of Roza Al-Salatin and Jawahar Al-Ajaib Tazkira, and one or two other works, also lived in this court. Abdi Beg Shirazi Kahi KabuliKamus Al-Alam, Shamsuddin Sami Malek QommiThe life and works of Maulana Malik Qomi, Muhammad Ali Mujahidi, Nameh Qom, No. 3 and 4, 1377 Qeidi Shirazi Makhdum Sharifi ShiraziRahmati, Mohammad Kazem, Mirza Makhdoom Sharifi and Kitab al-Nawaqad Nizam al-Din Hashimi Gharari Gilani Hisabi NatanziThe Association of Cultural Experts, Asar Afarinan, Vol. 2, p. 259. Mirak SalehiBayani, Mehdi. Status and works of calligraphers. Scientific publications. second edition. Tehran 1984 Serfi SavajiEthé, H., Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, Oxford, 1903. Hozuri Qumi Gheirati ShiraziMajmaal Khawas p. 219