Vesal Shirazi (Persian: وصال شیرازی: 1782 – 1845) was an Iranian poet, who wrote in the style of Bazgasht-e adabi,^[1] which advocated for the return of the Khorasani and Iraqi styles in Persian literature.^[2][3]

Some historians consider him to have been the most prominent poet under Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797–1834).^[4]

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