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, Radhey (1966).''The Kingdom of Ahmadnagar.'' Delhi, p. 383.</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 name=Eaton/> 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/>