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Shah Muhammad Sagir
Shah Muhammad Sagir was a Bengali poet, probably of the reign of Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah around 1400, and one of the earliest known Muslim poets of the Bengali language. His Yusuf-Zulekha retold in Bengali verse the Persian romance of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, opening the long tradition of Bengali romances adapted from Persian literature.
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