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Khaqani
Khaqani was a Persian poet from Shirvan, in present-day Azerbaijan, and one of the masters of the Persian ode. He served as court poet to the Shirvanshahs Manuchihr III and Akhsitan I, was imprisoned for a time, and wrote verses from prison as well as a famous ode on the ruins of the Sasanian palace at Ctesiphon. He died in Tabriz.
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