Qaani

His father, Mirza Mohammad Ali, was a minor poet who wrote under the pen name Golshan.

He lost his father at the age of eleven, after which he enjoyed the patronage of Hasan Ali Mirza Shuja' al-Saltana, the governor of Shiraz, who gave him the pen name Qaani.

He wrote a poem to praise Fath Ali Shah Qajar during the former's visit to Tehran, and called him "Mojtahed of the Poets".

This may make up only a fifth of his total oeuvre, the remainder having been lost (Qaani was not meticulous about preserving his writings).

He is best known for his numerous qasidas, but he also wrote musammats, tarji-bands, ghazals, matnawis, qit'as, and ruba'is.