Azar Nafisi

Zarathustra (Gatha, ca 1700 f.Kr) • Barbad (600-talet e.Kr) • Rudaki (d. 941) • Ferdowsi (Shâhnâméh, 935–1020) • Tusen och en natt (ca 900–1000-talet) • Avicenna (980–1037) • al-Ghazali (1058–1111) • Nizam al-Mulk (1017–1092) • Manuchehri (d. 1040) • Omar Khayyam (1048–1122) • Hujwiri (d. 1077) • Hamadani (1098–1131) • Suhrawardi (1155–1191) • Sana'i (d. 1131) • Nizami Aruzi (1100-talet) • Attâr (1140–1230)) • Nezami (1141–1209) • Shams al-din Tabrizi (d. ca. 1248) • Jalal al-din Rumi (1207-1273) • Fakhr al-din Araqi (d. 1289) • Sa'di (1184–ca 1292) • Kermani (1280–1352) • Hafez (1320–1388/1390?) • Jami (1414–1492) • Fuzûlî (1483–1556)

Iqbal (1877–1938) • Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946) • Muhammad-Taqi Bahar (1884-1951) • Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh (1892–1997) • Nima Youshij (1896–1959) • Sadegh Hedayat (1903–1951) • Bozorg Alavi (1904–1997) • Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000) • Parvin E'tesami (1906–1941) • Forogh Farrokhzad (1935–1967) • Mina Assadi (1943-) • Shahrnush Parsipur (1946-) • Jila Mossaed (1948-) • Robab Moheb (1953-) • Mana Aghaee (1973-)

Iraj Afshar • Shirzad Aghaee • Peter Avery • Fateme Behros • Hans Bethge • Mary Boyce • Edward Browne • Ashk Dahlén • Ali Akbar Dehkhoda • Richard Nelson Frye • Akbar Golrang • Eric Hermelin • Anders Hultgård • Carina Jahani • Dariush Kargar • Davoud Monchi-Zadeh • Parviz Natel-Khanlari • Reynold A. Nicholson • H.S. Nyberg • Claus V. Pedersen • Ebrahim Poordavood • Zabihullah Safa • Ahmad Tafazzoli • Finn Thiesen • Bo Utas • Geo Widengren • Stig Wikander • Ehsan Yarshater