Ubayd Zakani

Ubayd Zakani
A compilation of works by Ubayd Zakani and Fakhr al-Din Bushaq-e a'tima (died 1420). From a manuscript of Safavid Iran, dated April/May 1540.
Born	before 1319 Qazvin, Ilkhanate
Died	1369–1371 possibly Shiraz, Muzaffarid kingdom
Occupation	Poet, satirist
Notable works	Mush-o Gorbeh

Khwajeh Nizam al-Din Ubayd Allah al-Zakani (Persian: خواجه نظام الدین عبید الله الزاکانی, romanized: Ḵwājeh Niẓām al-Dīn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Zākānī; d. 1370), better known as Ubayd Zakani (عبید زاکانی), was a Persian poet of the Mongol era, regarded as one of the best satirists in Persian literature. His most famous work is Mush-o Gorbeh ("Mouse and Cat"), a political satire which attacks religious hypocrisy. Although a highly popular figure in his own time, Ubayd's work received little attention from modern scholars until recently, due to provocative and bawdy texts in the majority of his works.^[1] His style of satire has been compared to the French Enlightenment writer Voltaire (d. 1778).