Kamal Khujandi (1320-1400 AD,
Persian: کمال خجندی), also Kamal Khojandi, Kamaleddin Khojandi, or Kamal-E Khojandi, was a
PersianSufi and
Persianghazal poet of the 14th century (8th century
hijri).[1]
He is counted among the great romantic poets of the 14th century, like
Amir Khosrow Dehlavi,
Khwaju Kermani and
Hafez. He was also a contemporary of
Hafez. The modern Persian novelist and short story writer
Sadegh Hedayat and his family trace their ancestry to Kamal Khojandi.[2]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
Afghanistan.