Layeq Sherali (1941–2000, in Tajiki/Persian: Лоиқ Шералӣ/لائق شیرعلی, sometimes also Romanised as Laeq or Laiq or Loiq) was a Tajik poet, Iranologist and one of the most celebrated Persian literary figures of Tajikistan and central Asia.

The influence of Firdowsi, Khayyam and Molana Jalaleddin-e Balkhi is evident in Shir-Ali's works.

[1] He was the head of the Tajik-Persian Language International Foundation in Middle Asia and he was called as Shah-Poet of Tajikistan.

Another collection, "Rakh's Spirit" is published in Iran, in 1999, by Mirzo Shakurzoda.

[2] An excerpt from one of Sher-Ali's most famous poems, about three years before his death:[3] یکی گفتی تو ایرانی، دیگر گفتی تو تاجیکی Яке гуфтӣ ту эронӣ, дигар гуфтӣ ту тоҷикӣ جدا از اصل خود میرد کسی مارا جدا کردست Ҷудо аз асли худ мирад касе моро ҷудо кардаст