Mahsati Ganjavi was a pioneer of the Persian quatrain ( rubaʿi) who flourished in the eleventh or, as is more likely, the twelfth century CE. Her surname suggests she hailed from the city of Ganja, in modern-day Azerbaijan. After her fourteenth-century counterpart, Jahan Malik Khatun, she stands out, perhaps, as the second-most prolific Persian woman poet of the global Middle Ages.