Ghazālī Mashhadī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Losensky, Paul E.
Leiden
Brill
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Ghazālī Mashhadī (d. 980/1572) was born in Mashhad in 930/1524 (Gulchīn-Maʿānī, 2:933) or 933/1527 (Ghazālī, Dīvān , xiii), received his education and poetic training in Mashhad, and apparently built his literary reputation by trading invectives with a certain Nūrī Dandānī. In his youth, he travelled to Qazvīn, where he joined the court of the Ṣafavid king Shāh Tahmāsp I (r. 930-84/1524-76). In 958/1551, the king dispatched Ghazālī to Shiraz to write verses mocking Kh w āja Mīr Bayk Kujajī (d. 984/1576),