Al-Warrik

Al-Warrik was a Persian poet. Ethé gave his death as 527 AH (1132-33) or 524 AH (1130), but Mirza Muhammad Qazwini showed in the Chahar Maqala (pp. 175 ff.) that he died certainly before 465 AH (1072-3). His Diwan contains panegyrics on Tughanshah b. Alp Arslan, governor of Herat (not, as is often stated, of Nishapur), and on Amiranshah, son of Kawurd, the first Saljuq sultan of Kirman. ¹

His verses include outstanding qasidas and qitas. He excels in descriptive poetry, but is sometimes exaggerated in praise and not free from far-fetched and affected comparisons. The entry finds it improbable that he is the author of the Sindbad-nama and of an obscene book, the Altiyya wa-Shalfiyya, which Hajji Khalifa and others attribute to him. ²