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Farsi-Speaking Poets
A treasury of the masters of Persian poetry and mysticism — tap any poet to enter their world.
Ash'ar-e Tarot Farsi
سروده‌های اصیلِ تاروت فارسی
معاصر
A collection of original Tarot Farsi poems — verses on love, light and the path of the heart, written in the sweet, melodic style of the classical Persian ghazal.
Hafez Shirazi
لسان‌الغیب • خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد
۷۲۷ – ۷۹۲ هجری قمری • قرن هشتم
Khwaja Shamsuddin Mohammad Hafez of Shiraz — “Tongue of the Unseen” — is the towering master of the Persian ghazal. His Divan blends love, mystic longing, playful rebellion (rendi) and open protest against hypocrisy.
Rumi (Mawlana / Molavi)
خداوندگارِ عشق و عرفان
۶۰۴ – ۶۷۲ هجری قمری • قرن هفتم
Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi — Mawlana, or Rumi — is one of the greatest mystics of world literature. His Masnavi and the Divan-e Shams Tabrizi stand at the summit of Sufi poetry.
Saadi Shirazi
افصح‌المتکلمین • شیخ مصلح‌الدین
حدود ۶۰۶ – ۶۹۱ هجری قمری • قرن هفتم
Sheikh Mosleh al-Din Saadi of Shiraz — author of the Golestan and Bustan — is unmatched in Persian for weaving ethics, love, worldly wisdom and humanism into unforgettable verse and prose.
Ferdowsi Tusi
حکیم ابوالقاسم فردوسی • حماسه‌سرای بزرگ
حدود ۳۲۹ – ۴۱۶ هجری قمری • قرن چهارم
Hakim Abul-Qasim Ferdowsi of Tus, author of the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), is the guardian of the Persian language and the epic voice of Iran, who devoted thirty years to preserving its myths and history.
Omar Khayyam
حکیم • ریاضی‌دان • رباعی‌سرا
حدود ۴۴۰ – ۵۲۶ هجری قمری • قرن پنجم و ششم
Hakim Omar Khayyam of Nishapur — astronomer, mathematician and philosopher — poured humanity's deepest questions about existence, death and the fleeting moment into his incomparable quatrains (rubaiyat).
Nizami Ganjavi
حکیم ابومحمد الیاس • داستان‌سرای عشق
حدود ۵۳۵ – ۶۰۷ هجری قمری • قرن ششم
Hakim Nizami of Ganja is the greatest narrative poet of Persian, creator of the Khamsa (Five Treasures): Makhzan al-Asrar, Khosrow o Shirin, Layli o Majnun, Haft Peykar and the Iskandar-nama.
Attar Neishabouri
فریدالدّین محمد • عارف و داستان‌سرای طریقت
حدود ۵۴۰ – ۶۱۸ هجری قمری • قرن ششم و هفتم
Sheikh Fariduddin Attar of Nishapur — Sufi master and author of the Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr) — is one of the fountainheads of Persian mystical poetry. Rumi called him “the soul, and Sanai the two eyes.”
Shams Tabrizi
مرشدِ مولانا • شمس‌الدّین محمّد
حدود ۵۸۲ – ۶۴۵ هجری قمری • قرن هفتم
Shamsuddin Muhammad of Tabriz, the towering mystic and beloved teacher of Rumi. His words survive in the Maqalat-e Shams; he kindled the flame of divine love that transformed Rumi.
Rabi'a Balkhi
نخستین شاعرِ زنِ پارسی‌گوی • رابعه بنتِ کعبِ قُزداری
قرن چهارم هجری • بلخِ خراسان
Rabi'a bint Ka'b Quzdari, known as Rabi'a Balkhi, is the earliest recorded female Persian poet. Her passionate surviving verses — preserved in classical anthologies such as Awfi's Lubab al-Albab — mark the dawn of women's voices in Persian literature.
The Gathas — Hymns of Zarathushtra
زرتشت اسپیتمان • کهن‌ترین بخشِ اوستا
هزارهٔ دوم پیش از میلاد • ایرانِ باستان
The Gathas are seventeen ancient sacred hymns attributed to Zarathushtra — the oldest part of the Avesta and the core of his teachings. Their eternal message: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.