Tahir Anjudani

Tahir Anjudani (d. 1549), Persian poet flourishing in India in the sixteenth century. He was also well-known as Tahir Dakkani and his name, Shah Tahir, reveals that he was a Sayyid, viz. notable, from Anjudan, a district in Qum. Hailing from Kashan, he was born in Hamadan. Possessing a comely appearance and moral virtues, he provided people with guidance, but owing to vicious slanders, he was persecuted by the Safavid Shah Isma’il and had to depart for India, where he was warmly welcomed by Nizam Shah and he propagated the Twelver Shi’i teachings there. He died in India and was laid to rest in the Holy Shrines in Iraq.

Chaharsad Sha’ir-i Barguzida-yi Parsiguy (618).