Asheq Esfahani (Persian: عاشق اصفهانی) was an 18th-century poet who was part of the literary movement Bazgasht-e adabi,[1] which advocated for a return to the fundamentals of classical Persian poetry in protest against the excessively "unnatural" nature of the Indian style that dominated poetry in Iran and Persian-speaking India.[2]

Asheq Esfahani
Page of a manuscript of the divan of Asheq Esfahani, dated 1761 or 1762
Page of a manuscript of the divan of Asheq Esfahani, dated 1761 or 1762
BornAgha Mohammad Khayyat
c. 1700
Died1768 (aged 67–68)
Isfahan, Zand Iran
OccupationPoet
Language
Literary movementBazgasht-e adabi

He was born in c. 1700, and died in 1768 in Isfahan.[3]

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  • Firuzkuhi, K. Amiri (1987). "ʿĀšeq Eṣfahānī". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
  • Meneghini, Daniela (2017). "Hātif Iṣfahānī". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
  • Seyed-Gohrab, Ali Asghar (2017). "ʿĀshiq Iṣfahānī". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.