Vesal Shirazi
{{Infobox writer
| name = Vesal Shirazi
| image = Persian Calligraphy - Mirza Koochak Shirazi - Islamic Consultative Assembly Museum of Iran.jpg
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| caption = Persian calligraphy by Vesal Shirazi, dated 1821
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1782
| birth_place = Shiraz, Zand Iran
| death_date = 1845
| death_place = Qajar Iran
| resting_place = Near Shah Cheragh, Shiraz
| occupation = Poet
| language = {{cslist|Persian}}
| movement = Bazgasht-e adabi
| notableworks =
| children = Mirza Mohammad Davari Shirazi
}}
Vesal Shirazi ({{langx|fa|وصال شیرازی}}: 1782 – 1845) was an Iranian poet, who wrote in the style of Bazgasht-e adabi,{{sfn|de Bruijn|2002}} which advocated for the return of the Khorasani and Iraqi styles in Persian literature.{{sfn|Daadbeh|2015}}{{sfn|Hanaway|1989|pp=58–60}}
Some historians consider him to have been the most prominent poet under Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ({{reign|1797|1834}}).{{sfn|Katouzian|2013|p=169}}
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- {{EI2|last=de Bruijn|first=J.T.P.|volume=11|title=Wiṣāl|url=https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EIEO/SIM-8932.xml}}
- {{Encyclopaedia Islamica|last1=Daadbeh|first1=Asghar|year=2015|title=Bāzgasht-i Adabī|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-islamica/bazgasht-i-adabi-COM_000000118}}
- {{Encyclopaedia Iranica | volume=4 | fascicle=1 | title = Bāzgašt-e adabī | last = Hanaway | first = William L. | url = https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bazgast-e-adabi | pages = 58–60 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Katouzian|first1=Homa|authorlink=Homa Katouzian|title=Iran: Politics, History and Literature|date=2013 |publisher=Routledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwaLAgiqoq4C|isbn=978-0415636902}}
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Category:19th-century Iranian poets