'Orfi Shirazi

Orfi Shirazi
عرفی شیرازی
Born1555
Shiraz, Safavid Iran
DiedAugust 1591(1591-08-00) (aged 35–36)
Lahore, Mughal Empire
Resting place
Imam Ali Shrine, Najaf, Iraq
OccupationPoet
Writing career
LanguagePersian

Jamāl-al-Din Moḥammad Sidi (1555–1591), known by his pen-name Urfi, or Orfi or Urfi Shirazi (Persian: عرفی شیرازی), was a 16th-century Persian poet.

He was born in Shiraz and in his youth, he migrated to India and became one of the poets of the court of Akbar the Great. He is one of the most prominent Persian poets of Indian style.

References

  1. ↑ Inan, Murat Umut (2019). "Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World". The Persianate World (1 ed.). University of California Press. pp. 75–92. ISBN 978-0-520-30092-7.
  2. ↑ PAUL LOSENSKY, "ʿORFI ŠIRAZI" in Encyclopaedia Iranica