Molla Mohammad Sa'id Ashraf Mazandarani (1620–1704), commonly known as Ashraf Mazandarani, was one of the last prominent Iranian poets at the court of Mughal India. He was born into a scholarly family in Mazandaran, a northern province of Safavid Iran.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Sharma 2011.
  2. ^ Dale 2003, p. 198.

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  • Dale, Stephen Frederic (2003). "A Safavid Poet in the Heart of Darkness: The Indian Poems of Ashraf Mazandarani". Iranian Studies. 36 (2): 197–212. doi:10.1080/00210860305242. JSTOR 4311522. S2CID 162239017. (registration required)
  • Sharma, Sunil (2011). "Ashraf Māzandarānī". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.