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'''Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ẓuhūrī''' (d. AH 1025/CE 1616) was a Persian poet born around 1537.<ref>Annemarie Schimmel, ''Islamic Literatures of India'' (Weisbaden, 1973): 33; Rajeev Kinra, ''Writing Self, Writing Empire Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary'' (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015): 212.</ref> Ẓuhūrī states that he was born in Qāʾin, but tradition identifies his birthplace as a village in the district of [[Turshiz]], thus his often used [[nisbat]] Turshīzī. He began his career in [[Yazd]] at the court of Ghiyās al-Dīn Mīr-i Mīrān, where he was acquainted with the poet Waḥshī. After spending several years in [[Shiraz]] he travelled to the [[Deccan]] in 1580 where he entered the service of [[Ibrahim Adil Shah II]].<ref>The culture of the court described in Richard Eaton, ''The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India'' (Princeton, 1978).</ref> Among his know works is the ''Sāqīʻnāma''.<ref>See FIHIRIST https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_50537240</ref> An anthology of his poems is titled ''Kulliyyāt-i Ẓuhūrī'', the oldest copy of which appears to be that in the [[India Office]] collection at the [[British Library]].<ref>Seyller, John.(2019). ''Kulliyyāt-i Ẓuhūrī'' [IO Islamic 327] SEALS AND NOTATIONS. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2612849</ref>
{{For|the 20th century poet and writer|Mohammad Zohari}}
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'''Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ẓuhūrī''' (d. AH 1025/CE 1616) was a Persian poet born around 1537.<ref name=Schimmel/><ref name=Kinra/><ref name=Shyam/> Ẓuhūrī states that he was born in Qāʾin, but tradition identifies his birthplace as a village in the district of [[Turshiz]], thus his often used [[Nisba (onomastics)|nisbat]] Turshīzī. He began his career in [[Yazd]] at the court of Ghiyās al-Dīn Mīr-i Mīrān, where he was acquainted with the poet Waḥshī. After spending several years in [[Shiraz]] he travelled to the [[Deccan]] in 1580 where he entered the service of [[Ibrahim Adil Shah II]].<ref name=Eaton/> There he married the daughter of Mawlānā Malik Qumī.<ref>Sprenger, Aloys (1854). ''A Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Hindu'sta'ny Manuscripts of the Libraries of the King of Oudh''. Calcutta: J. Thomas, p. 125.Available online: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344757.</ref> Among his known works is the ''Sāqīʻnāma''.<ref name=fihrist/> An anthology of his poems is titled ''Kulliyyāt-i Ẓuhūrī'', the oldest copy of which appears to be that in the [[India Office]] collection at the [[British Library]].<ref name=Seyller/> The seals in this manuscript show that it was in the library of [[Shah Jahan]].{{cn|date=September 2024}} He died in 1616, the same year as his colleague Qumī.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica|title=ẒOHURI TORŠIZI|date=2017|first=Paul E.|last=Losensky|url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/zohuri-torshizi}}</ref>
 
== References ==
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<ref name=Schimmel>{{cite book
{{uncat|date=March 2019}}
| first = Annemarie
| last = Schimmel
| title = Islamic Literatures of India
| publisher = [[Harrassowitz]]
| year = 1973
| isbn = 978-3447015097
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LbOkkLBJ734C
| page = 33
}}</ref>
<ref name=Kinra>{{cite book
| first = Rajeev
| last = Kinra
| title = Writing Self, Writing Empire Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary
| location = Oakland, California
| publisher = [[University of California Press]]
| year = 2015
| asin = B01FGOMZY8
| page = 212
}}</ref>
<ref name=Shyam>{{cite book
| first = Radhey
| last = Shyam
| title = The Kingdom of Ahmadnagar
| publisher = [[Motilal Banarsidass]]
| year = 2008
| isbn = 978-8120826519
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5C4hBqKdkEsC
| page = 383
}}</ref>
<ref name=Eaton>{{cite book
| first = Richard
| last = Eaton
| title = The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India
| publisher = [[Princeton University Press]]
| year = 2016
| isbn = 978-0691643779
| page = 212
}}</ref>
<ref name=fihrist>{{cite web
| title = Ẓuhūrī, Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad, 1537 or 8-1616 or 17
| website = Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World
| url = https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_50537240
| accessdate = 2019-03-29
}}</ref>
<ref name=Seyller>{{cite
| first = John
| last = Seyller
| title = Zuhûrî'nin Kulliyyât'ı کلّیّات ظهوری Kulliyyāt-i Ẓuhūrī [IO Islamic 327]. Folio 1r
| date = 2019-03-27
| doi = 10.5281/zenodo.2612849
}}</ref>
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[[Category:16th-century Iranian writers]]
[[Category:17th-century Persian-language poets]]
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[[Category:People from the Sultanate of Bijapur]]