At a glance
- Roles
- Poet
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Nasih al-Din Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ansari al-Arradjani was an Arab poet born at Arradjan in 460 AH (1067) and died in 544 AH (1149-1150) at Tustar or Askar Mukram. 1
Religious training and office
He studied religion, mainly at the Nizamiyya in Isfahan, which qualified him to be nominated judge (qadi) of Tustar. He turned early to poetry, which he regarded as a means of livelihood. 1
Poetry
He wrote panegyrics, addressed in particular to the Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir, in the traditional qasida form with its opening nasib. Although some critics praise his work, the entry judges him a versifier of limited stature. His diwan, compiled by his son, was printed at Beirut in 1307 AH (1889), and several manuscripts exist in London and Cairo. 1
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 708
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