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Herati Women Poets

Afaq Jalariz

Amjad Rezay

Bedeli

Dilshad Khatoon

Fatima Akhtar

Fatima Sajjadi

Hamida M. Husseini

Hanifa Faryor Rostay

Hayati

Hazuqa Herati

Maah

Mahjub Herati

Majuba Herawi

Maryam Kanizak

Maryam Turkmeni

Mehrunesa

Huma M. Azar

Senawbar Hajeza

Zahra Mahmudi

Zahra Rasuli

Ziagul Sultani

Biographies of Herati woman poets

Mehrunesa Mehri was a 9th century poet of Herat. She was the wife of Abdul Aziz, the doctor of King Shah Rukh Mirza.  The Queen Nadima Gowhar Shad was a friend of hers.

There is no information available about the year of her birth and death.

“If I knew that old age would come to me
I wouldn’t have spent my adolescence in grief”

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