# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ma-ruf-balkhi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:13:12.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ma-ruf-balkhi"
name: "Ma'ruf Balkhi"
slug: "ma-ruf-balkhi"
description: "Ma'ruf Balkhi or Ma'rufi Balkhi was a Persian poet from Balkh, who was one of the first to compose poems in New Persian. Most of his work has perished, and only fragments have survived. He most likely flourished in the middle of the 10th-century, due to some of his work being dedicated to the Samanid ruler (amir) Abd al-Malik I. He may also have been present at the court of the last Saffarid ruler of Sistan, Khalaf ibn Ahmad."
tagline: "Iranian poet"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           37.39
  momentum:             4.363636363636363
  historical:           5.269510666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma'ruf_Balkhi"
    title: "Ma'ruf Balkhi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%8A"
    title: "معروف البلخي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AB_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%80"
    title: "মারুফ বালখী"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%CA%BCruf_Balxiy"
    title: "Maʼruf Balxiy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AE%DB%8C"
    title: "معروفی بلخی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%83%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%85%D3%A3"
    title: "Маъруфии Балхӣ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5702267"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump