Zahir-al-Din Abu-al-Fazl Tahir ibn Muhammad (Persian: ظهیرالدّین ابوالفضل طاهر بن محمد; c. 1156 – 1201) mostly known as Zahir Faryabi (Persian: ظهیر فاریابی) was a 12th-century Persian poet.[1]

He was born about 1156 (551 AH) in Faryab (in today's Afghanistan), and was probably of Turkish blood.[2] His works mostly consist of Qasidas for several Seljuq Emirs. He dedicated at least one poem to the Shirvanshah Akhsitan I.[3] He died in 1201 in Tabriz.

References and notes

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  1. ^ de Bruijn 2012.
  2. ^ Rypka (Boyle, ed.) 1968, v, p. 577.
  3. ^ de Blois 2004, pp. 460–461.

References

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  • de Blois, Francois (2004). Persian Literature - A Bio-Bibliographical Survey: Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period (Volume V). Routledge. ISBN 978-0947593476.
  • de Bruijn, J. T. P. (24 January 2012) [15 December 1999]. "Fāryābī, Ẓahīr-al-Dīn Abu’l-Fażl Ṭāher". Encyclopædia Iranica (online ed.).
  • Khanbaghi, Aptin (2016). "Champions of the Persian Language: The Mongols or the Turks?". In Nicola, Bruno; Melville, Charles (eds.). The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran. Brill. pp. 193–215. ISBN 978-9004311992.
  • Rypka, Jan (1968). History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. OCLC 460598. ISBN 90-277-0143-1
  • Rypka, Jan (1968). "8. Poets and Prose Writers of the Late Saljuq and Mongol Periods". Boyle, J. A. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 577.