Tazkera-ye Taher-e Nasrabadi
17th-century Persian collection of brief biographies
The Tazkera-ye Taher-e Nasrabadi (Persian: تذکرهٔ طاهر نصرآبادی) is a 17th-century Persian collection of brief biographies of around 1,000 poets from Safavid Iran. It was composed in 1680 by the poet and literary historian Mirza Mohammad Taher Nasrabadi in dedication to the Safavid shah Suleiman I (r. 1666–1694).
The book divided the Persian literary world into three areas: Iran, Turan, and India. However, the focus was predominantly on Safavid Iran.
References
Sources
Fotoohi, Mahmoud (2020). "Taḏkera-ye Naṣrābādi". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online. Brill. doi:10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_10916.
Sharma, Sunil (2021).
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tazkera-ye Taher-e Nasrabadi” as 17th-century Persian collection of brief biographies. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 17th-century Persian collection of brief biographies. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q130237175. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1680, 1666, 1694 and 2020.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Tazkera-ye Taher-e Nasrabadi”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Tazkera-ye Taher-e Nasrabadi primary sources, Tazkera-ye Taher-e Nasrabadi archive and Tazkera-ye research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tazkera-ye Taher-e Nasrabadi”?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Tazkera-ye Taher-e Nasrabadi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.