Sipandi Samarkandi

Mulla Abdulkarim Sipandi Samarkandi (Persian: سپندی سمرقندی; 1829–1909) was a Tajik bilingual poet. He lived in Samarkand, in current-day Uzbekistan. His work consists of ghazal, qit'a, mukhammas, and ruba'i, which were written in the Tajik language. Samarkandi also wrote Hajvi kali Ibrahim.

Samarkandi was the grandfather of poet Shavkat Akhadovich Vakhidov.¹