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Al-Urjani

الأرجاني

c. 1150 CE · 545 AH

Nasih al-Din al-Urjani — faqih-poet, deputy qadi at Tustar and Askar Mukram, remembered by al-Imad al-Katib from the Nizamiyya of Isfahan; of himself he wrote 'I am the most poetic of jurists and the most learned of poets' 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi

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Nasih al-Din Abu Bakr Ahmad b. Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Urjani; a jurist-poet and deputy qadi at Tustar and 'Askar Mukram. Al-'Imad al-Katib al-Isfahani mentions him in the Kharida, noting that in the prime of his youth he was at Isfahan's Nizamiyya from Nizam al-Mulk's era to its end in 544; of himself he said: 'I am the most poetic of jurists, none contesting, and surely the most learned of poets.' 1

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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