Mahsati Ganjavi (c. 1098-after 1185) — "great lady" — was the **Persian female poet of Ganja** (modern Azerbaijan), contemporary of Nizami Ganjavi. **One of the earliest known female poets of Persian literature**, she composed *rubaiyat* (quatrains) of extraordinary frankness about love, wine, and life — **including poems addressed to artisans, butchers, and bakers** rather than the courtly elite. **Tradition holds she was a courtesan-poet at the court of Sultan Sanjar.**
Among the few named female poets of medieval Persian.
Mahsati reduces to nine — the number of Persian poet-quatrains.