Masud Sa'd Salman

Manuscript of Masud Sa'd Salman's divan. Copy created in Qajar Iran on the order of Hasan Ali Khan Garrusi (Amir Nezam), dated January 1889

Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān (Persian: مسعود سعد سلمان) was an 11th-century Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire who is known as the prisoner poet as well as the first poet ever of Lashkari/Lahori(Urdu) as per Amir Khosrow's tribute to him. He lived from ca. 1046 to 1121.[1]

  1. ^ "MASʿUD-E SAʿD-E SALMĀN – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-08-21.