Jahan Malik Khatun
摘要
Jahan Malik Khatun was a fourteenth-century Injuid princess and Persian poet. A contemporary of the poets Hafiz (ca. 1315–1390 CE) and ʿUbayd Zakani (d. 1370 CE), she lived in a politically volatile period following the fall of the Ilkhanate, a dynasty established by Genghis Khan’s grandson Hulagu Khan whose rule encompassed modern-day Iran. Jahan Malik Khatun’s self-compiled divan of more than 14,000 verses consists mostly of ghazals, as well as quatrains and elegies dealing with her daughter’s death. It also includes a unique preface written by her in which she situates herself in the tradition of both Arab and Persian women poets.