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-A brief notice of the Persian poets. 



[Jan, 



Abul Feraz 'SanjarL 



j A poet of repute who flourished in the sixth century of the 

 Hejira, during the -reign -of Saltan San jar, sixth monarch of 

 the Seljucides. 



Ahmek or Ahid JYajib al BokhtarL 



Ahmek was surnamed Ustad-ns-Shora, preceptor of the 

 poets ; he nearly attained the age of 100 years and flourished 

 during the reign of Khizr Khan Seljuki in the fifth century 

 of the Hejira. Ahmek was the chief of the hundred poets 

 whom Khizr Khan entertained at his court. He excelled in 

 the composition of odes. 



Assaberi Razi< 



Flourished in the reign and resided at the Court of Mali- 

 mud Sabactagi. 



Abiil JVazam Mahommed. 



Surnamed Falelzi, and styled $hems-us-Shora 3 the sun of 

 the poets, also Malek-al-fazala, prince of the learned. The 

 compositions of this poet are preferred by Oriental writers to 

 those of his contemporaries, Khakani and Zahir. 



He was a pupil of Abul Olai Ganjawi, and native of Sha* 

 makhi in Shirwan, where he died A. H. 577 — "having ren- 

 dered himself the wonder of the age by upwards of forty 

 thousand excellent verses." It is said that he owes the ap- 

 pellation Faleki, celestial, to his profound knowledge of As- 

 tronomy. Herbelot thus remarks — 



" L' on donne le surnom de Feleki a notre poete, a cause, 

 dit on, du commerce qu'il eut au sujet de ses amours, dans 

 la maison d'un Astrologue, qui lui fit naitre le desir d'appren- 

 dre Pastrologie que les Arabes appellent Elm al Felek, la sci- 

 ence du ciel. II fit de si grands progrez dans cette science, 

 qu'il composa meme un traits iatiide Ahcam Nogiaum, des 



