Husayn Kashifi
Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī Kashifi, best simply known as Husayn Kashifi, was a prolific Persian prose-stylist, a poet, a Quran exegete, a Sufi scholar, and an astronomer of the Timurid era. "Kashifi" was his pen name, whereas his surname al-Wāʿiẓ ("the preacher") denoted his professional occupation.

He spent most of his career in Herat, where his academic activities were supported by Ali-Shir Nava'i, a senior vizier in the Timurid court during Sultan Husayn Bayqara's rule, hence the reason for Kashifi to dedicate most of his works to Nava'i. He was also very close to the famous Persian poet and sufi, Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami.

His famous works include "Akhlaq-e Mohseni" and "Anwar-e Sohaili" in Persian prose, and "Jawaher al-Tafsir" and "Mawaheb-e 'Aliyya" which are Persian tafsirs of the Quran.
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Ali-Shir Nava'i
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tafsir
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