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Hijābī Istarābādī—حجابی استرآبادی

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Hijābī Istarābādī (d. 1530) was a poetess from the town of Astarābād, close to city of Gurgān. She was the daughter of famous Timurid poet Hādī Hilālī Istarābādī. Her pen name was Hijābī and she was articulate and eloquent in her poems. Most biographers believe she had a divan of poetry which did not survive. Her compositions are scattered in different manuscripts in the form of the jung.