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Name
  
Qasem-e Anvar

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1426


Qāsem-e Anvār (Qāsim-i Anwār) (Persian: قاسم انوار‎‎) (born 1356 - died 1433) was an Iranian poet and Sufi. Qāsem-e Anwār wrote ḡazals, molammaʿs, and tuyuḡs in a simple Azeri Turkish. He was a Safavid propagandist and was born in Sarab, Tabriz.

Qasem-e Anar is the author of a popular Masnavi entitled Anis al-arifin (Mystics' Companion), an explanation of Sufi terminology, and also a divan of Sufi poetry.

A well-known Sufi sheikh who had a large following in Herat, Qāsem-e Anvar was suspected of collaboration with an assailant who stabbed Shahrukh and was banished from Herat.

Qasem-e Anvar also spent many years in Gilan and learnt the vernacular of the region and has even a ghazal in Gilaki.

References

Qasem-e Anvar Wikipedia