Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ẓuhūrī (d. AH 1025/CE 1616) was a Persian poet born around 1537.[1] 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.[2] Among his know works are the Sāqīʻnāma. [3] An anthology of his work is titled Kulliyyāt-i Ẓuhūrī, the oldest copy of which appears to be that in the India Office collection at the British Library.[4]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ The culture of the court described in Richard Eaton, The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India (Princeton, 1978).
- ^ See FIHIRIST https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/person_50537240
- ^ Seyller, John.(2019). Kulliyyāt-i Ẓuhūrī [IO Islamic 327] SEALS AND NOTATIONS. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2612849