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Khacdni's native country was Ferghaneh* in Turkistan. During 

 the commencement of his career he became one of the courtiers of 

 Manuchehr, sultan of Shinoan, but having resolved to retire from the 

 world, he quitted the court and put on the habit of a Zahid (a religious 

 recluse). The Sultan, on KhacdnVs refusal to return, ordered him to 

 be brought back by force, and imprisoned seven months. Our poet, 

 who was of a vigorous turn of mind, employed himself in the composi- 

 tion of a Kassideh, in which he treated religion with such apparent con- 

 tempt, that his friend Azuri, thought fit to write a commentary thereon, 

 in order to clear the author from the charge of infidelity. 



Khacdni, after his release, made a pilgrimage to Mecca in company 

 with Khajeli Jemal-uddin Mussuli, and wrote a poem descriptive of 

 the countries through which he travelled, and the fatigues he under- 

 went on his way to the holy shrine. A copy of his work on the two 

 Iraks, entitled the T ohfet-al-Irdkein, is to be found among the valua- 

 ble collection of Oriental MSS. made by Jonathan Scott, Esq. 



Mention is made of Khacdnt by Addal Basit in the Mandr-us- 

 Suwdbit. 



Khajeh Hatifi, 



Nephew to the celebrated poet J ami, composed a Khamseh, taking" 

 that of Nizdmi as a model. " 



When Shah Ismail defeated and slew Slieibek Khan, Sultan of the 

 Usbeks prior to his taking possession of Khorassan, Hatifi went to 

 visit him at the city of J am in Khorassan, and was charged with the 

 task of celebrating his victories in verse. The poet, however, had not 

 composed more than a thousand couplets when " death placed the seal 

 of silence on his lips," A. H, 900. 



Khajeh Kermdni. 



Was born in the province of Kermdn about 680 A. H. He died A. H. 

 742. Among his compositions are the Rouzet-al- Anwar, a kemah 



* " Farganah, nom d'une des contrees de la Transoxane, dontlaville capitate porte 

 le meme nom. Le nom d'Andoghian et d'Andugian lui est aussi commun, quoi que ce 

 soit proprement une de ses dependances, aussi bien que les villes de Coba et de Nessa. Ce 

 pays s' etend le long du fleuve Sihon ou Jaxartes quoi qu'il ne soitqu'a 92 degrez de longi- 

 tude, et a' 42 degrez, 20 minutes de latitude Septentrionale, selon les tables d'Abulfeda dans 

 le einquieme climat, quoi que Alfragan la place dans la fin du quatrieme."— D'Herbelot 

 Bibliotheqrie Orientate, 



