Asheq Esfahani

Asheq Esfahani (Persian: عاشق اصفهانی) was an 18th-century poet who was part of the literary movement Bazgasht-e adabi, which advocated for a return to the fundamentals of classical Persian poetry in protest against the excessively "unnatural" nature of the Indian style that dominated poetry in Iran and Persian-speaking India.

Asheq Esfahani
Page of a manuscript of the divan of Asheq Esfahani, dated 1761 or 1762
Born	Agha Mohammad Khayyat c. 1700
Died	1768 (aged 67–68) Isfahan, Zand Iran
Occupation	Poet
Language	Persian
Literary movement	Bazgasht-e adabi

He was born in c. 1700, and died in 1768 in Isfahan.

Sources

• Firuzkuhi, K. Amiri (1987). "ʿĀšeq Eṣfahānī". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
• Meneghini, Daniela (2017). "Hātif Iṣfahānī". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.
• Seyed-Gohrab, Ali Asghar (2017). "ʿĀshiq Iṣfahānī". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830.