Ubayd Zakani
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Ubayd Zakani (d. 1370) was a Persian poet of the Mongol era, regarded as one of the best satirists in Persian literature. His most famous work is Mush-o Gorbeh ("Mouse and Cat"), a political satire which attacks religious hypocrisy. Although a highly popular figure in his own time, Ubayd's work received little attention from modern scholars until recently, due to provocative and bawdy texts in the majority of his works.
His style of satire has been compared to the French Enlightenment writer Voltaire (d. 1778).
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