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Persian poet

WritersLived 980 to 1039 · aged 59
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Abu'l-Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi was a 10th-11th-century Persian poet. Unsuri is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court of Mahmud of Ghazni, and was given the title Malik us-Shu'ara under Mahmud.

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Abu'l-Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi was a 10th-11th-century Persian poet. Unsuri is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court of Mahmud of Ghazni, and was given the title Malik us-Shu'ara under Mahmud. His Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which only 2500 remain today. It includes the romance epic Vamiq u 'Adhra, which ultimately derives from the Ancient Greek novel Metiochus and Parthenope.

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Lived 980 to 1039 · aged 59
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