38 A brief notice of the Persian poets, [Jan% 



Abu Ishak Atimah Hallaj Shirazi, ( of Shiraz J. 



Shirazi was one of the courtiers of Sultan Seconder, Bin 

 Sultan Amir Shaikh, Bin Amir Timor. He died A. H, 827. 

 It is said that he had a very long beard and on one occasion 

 when he appeared at the Sultan's table, after an absence of 

 some days, he answered, in reply to a question of the prince 

 as to the cause of his absence, (C Oh sire, your slave has been 

 employed one day in dressing cotton, and three days in plucks 

 ing the shreds from his beard." The word Hallaj, h* 



Arabic signifies a dresser of cotton, to which occupation our 

 poet owes his surname and to which he alludes in his answer ; 

 as a hint, no doubt, for the prince to make him independent 

 of so low a vocation for his support. 



Ozuri. 



This poet was an inhabitant of Asgharain, He wrote an 

 ode in praise of Shah-rukh-Mirza, and subsequently entered 

 into the service of Shah Niamet Allah Wali, by whom he was 

 esteemed and treated with great regard. He performed the 

 pilgrimage to the holy city on foot three times • and there 

 compiled the work, Sai-us-Sefa. He also travelled 



into Hindustan whence he returned to Khorassan. He died 

 A. H. 966 and was interred at Asgharain. 



Asefi. 



Asefi was the son of Diwan Khajeh Nairn uddin, Vizir of 

 Sultan Abu Said : he retired in disgust from the court of this 

 monarch and spent his days in peaceful tranquillity and con- 

 tent, at Herat where he died A. H. 920. 



Agahi Khorassdni ( of Khorassan J. 



Khorassani was a poet of some note, partly from his com- 

 positions and partly from the circumstance of being deprived 

 of his fight hand and tongue^ by order of Amir Khan Turko- 



