Hafiz Tanish

Hafiz Tanish (Persian: حافظ تنیش) was a 16th-century Central Asian court poet and historian in the Khanate of Bukhara. He is author of the Sharaf-nama-yi shahi, a Persian history book authorized by his suzerain Abdullah Khan II (r. 1583–1598).

Sources

• Baymatov, Luqman. "حافظ تنیش بن میرمحمد بخاری". Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation (in Persian).
• Bregel, Yu. (1971). "Ḥāfiẓ Tani̊s̲h̲". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. OCLC 495469525.
• McChesney, R. D. (2012). Melville, Charles (ed.). Persian Historiography: History of Persian Literature A, Vol X (A History of Persian Literature). I.B.Tauris. pp. 503–530. ISBN 978-1845119119.