Muhammad Zuhuri: Difference between revisions

'''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]], where he married the daughter of Maulana Malik Qumi,<ref name=Eaton/>; <Aloys Sprenger, ''A Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Hindu'sta'ny Manuscripts of the Libraries of the King of Oudh'' (Calcutta: Thomas, 1854): 125>; Among his know 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]].