Ḥabībī, (lit. ‘beloved’) a nom de plume (takhalluṣ) shared by two Persian-speaking poets.

1. Ḥabībī Bargushādī, an Ādharbāyjānī poet (late 9th/15th and early 10th/16th century). He was born in the village of Bargushād (Bərgüşad), in the Ujar Rayon of Ādharbāyjān (Dawlatābādī, 169). Ṣabā erroneously renders ‘Ḥabībī’ as ‘Jayshī’, and claims he was an ethnic Turk (Tadhkira, 187); and Tarbiyat (Dānishmandān, 102) proposes Turkoman origins. However Sāmī considers Ḥabībī to have been of Tājīk (Persian) origin (Qāmūs, 3/1927).

Sām Mīrzā Ṣafawī (pp. 357–358) describes Ḥabībī’s e…