Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī and also Arudi, was a poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala, his only work to fully survive. While living in Samarqand, Abu’l-Rajaʾ Ahmad b.
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Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī and also Arudi, was a poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala, his only work to fully survive. While living in Samarqand, Abu’l-Rajaʾ Ahmad b. ʿAbd-Al-Ṣamad, a dehqan in Transoxiana, told Nezami of how the poet Rudaki was given compensation for his poem extolling the virtues of Samanid Amir Nasr b. Ahmad.
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