Editing Poet laureate (section)

==== Iran ====
[[File:Mohammad-Taqi Bahar-Original.jpg|thumb|Mohammad-Taqi Bahar poet laureate of [[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar]].]]
In the 11th century, [[Iran]]-born [[Abu-al-Faraj Runi]] became a court poet during the [[Ghaznavids|Ghaznavid period]]. [[Manuchehri]] was another court poet during the aforementioned period. [[Qatran Tabrizi]] was the court poet of the dynasties of the [[Rawadids]] and [[Shaddadids]]. During the 13th century, [[Khwaju Kermani]] was the official court poet of [[Il-Khanid]] rulers [[Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan]] and [[Arpa Ke'un]], the [[Mozaffarid]] [[Mubariz al-Din Muhammad]], and [[Abu Ishaq Inju]] of the [[Injuids|Inju]] dynasty.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jr |first=Everett Jenkins |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xBIkCQAAQBAJ |title=The Muslim Diaspora (Volume 1, 570-1500): A Comprehensive Chronology of the Spread of Islam in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas |date=2015-05-07 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0888-4 |language=en}}</ref> [[Farid Isfarayini]] was the court poet of the [[Salghurids]] in [[Shiraz]].{{sfn|Safa|1999}} In the 14th century, [[Salman Savaji]] was the court poet of the [[Jalayirids]].{{sfn|Wing|2016|p=15}}

During the [[Safavid dynasty|Safavid era]], [[Vahshi Bafqi]] was the poet laureate of Ghiyat al-Din Mir Miran.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lewisohn |first=Leonard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dve7DwAAQBAJ |title=The Heritage of Sufism: Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501-1750) v. 3 |date=2018-04-30 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-78607-527-7 |language=en}}</ref> Sometime during the 15th century, [[Baba Fighani Shirazi]] became the court poet of [[Aq Qoyunlu]] [[Yaqub Aq Qoyunlu|Ya'qub Beg]]. In the 17th century, [[Taleb Amoli]] was made the poet laureate of the [[Mughal emperor]] [[Jahangir]] (1618). Also, in the 17th century, during his travels to [[India]], the Persian poet [[Kalim Kashani]] was made poet laureate by [[Mughal Empire|Mogul]] emperor [[Shah Jahan]] in 1632.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gandhi |first=Supriya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zh-_DwAAQBAJ |title=The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India |date=2020-01-07 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-24391-0 |language=en}}</ref> During the 18th century, [[Fath-Ali Khan Saba|Saba]] (Fath-Ali Khan Kashani) was the poet laureate of [[Fath-Ali Shah Qajar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hillenbrand |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dy4rDwAAQBAJ |title=Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings |date=2017-07-05 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-54892-2 |language=en}}</ref> In the 19th century, Prince [[Gholam-Hossein Mirza]] was the poet laureate of [[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar|Mozaffar al-Din Mirza]] in [[Tabriz]].

[[Mohammad-Taqi Bahar]] was the poet laureate of [[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar]]. He was born in [[Mashhad]] in 1884 (died 1951) and was a conservative figure among the modernists. He was appointed Poet Laureate by royal decree in 1903.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Datta |first=Amaresh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo |date=1987 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-260-1803-1 |language=en}}</ref>