Qodsi Mashhadi

Qodsi Mashhadi (1582–1646) was a poet in Safavid Iran and the Mughal Empire. The "fresh style" (shiva-ye taza) that was beginning to take over Persian poetry in the 17th century is generally seen as being used by Qodsi.^[1]

Qodsi Mashhadi spent several years in India at the Mughal court, during which part of his poetry was written for princes and officials in cities such as Agra and Lahore.^[2][3] His work is usually linked to the early phase of the sabk-e hendi (“Indian style”) in Persian poetry, which is marked by short, concentrated imagery and by the use of ideas and wordplay rather than classical rhetorical ornamentation.^[4][5]Several seventeenth-century manuscripts of his divan survive, showing that he wrote both ghazals and longer narrative poems.^[6] Some researchers consider him a transitional poet who connects the late Safavid tradition in Iran with the Indo-Persian literary scene that developed at the Mughal court.^[7]

• Losensky, Paul E. (2003). "Qodsi Mašhadi". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. ISBN 978-0933273634.