Ahlī-yi Shīrāzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Losensky, Paul E.
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Brill
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Mawlānā Muḥammad Ahlī-yi Shīrāzī (858-942/1454-1535 or 1536) was a Persian poet who was born and died in Shiraz, where he was buried near the tomb of his great literary predecessor, Ḥāfiẓ (d. 792/1390). Reports of later biographers and some modern scholars that Ahlī travelled widely appear to be unfounded. His earliest biographer, Sām Mīrzā (d. 974/1566-7), states that the poet's "poverty and scant dealings with worldly people" were too well-known to merit mention (177). Most of Ahlī's qaṣīda s (panegyrics)