Banuye Isfahani

There are many well-known poets from the traditions of eastern literature. Some of these poet’s names have been lost. One of them, a lady whose name is unknown today, was survived by one of her works in Persian language, which can be found in a collection of manuscripts. This lady, the wife of a man who worked as a scribe in a Safavid palace, left from Isfahan on a journey to Mecca. Her writing is a collection of notes that she made in Persian about her impressions of the journey. The fact that she was Azeri and the fact that she was from the city of Ordubad are proven by what she writes in her travelogue. The manuscript serves as an example of an Azeri woman poet and traveler in the Safavid era.