Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ghanī Kashmīrī (d. 1079/1668-9), known by his pen-name "Ghanī", is perhaps the most celebrated Persian poet of Kashmir, but there is little reliable information about his life. He is sometimes associated with the Ashāʾī clan, which arrived in Kashmir with the Ṣūfī shaykh ʿAlī Hamadānī (d. 786/1385), in the eighth/fourteenth century. Ghanī was probably born in or near Srinagar and spent most of his life there, apart from a journey to Hind (northern India), to which he alludes in several verses. Although he