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%2c_Divan%2c_poetry%2c_Persia%2c_19th_Century.jpg) Manuscript of Amir Mu'izzi'sdivan. Copy created in 19th-centuryQajar Iran | |
| Born | 1048/9 Nishapur,Seljuk Empire |
| Died | 1125/7 |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Relatives | Abd al-Malik Burhani (father) |
Amīr ash-Shu‘arā’ Abū Abdullāh Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Malik Mu‘izzī (Persian:امیرمعزی, romanized asMu'ezzi) (bornNishapur 1048/9) was a poet who ranks as one of the great masters of the Persianpanegyric form known asqasideh.
Mu'izzī's father, Abd al-Malik Burhani, waspoet laureate ofSanjar underMalik Shāh I andSultān Sanjar. His son followed, self-consciously, in his footsteps, styling himself as his father's deputy (nāyib) and inheriting his role.[1][1] He was renowned both in his own time and to later scholarship.[2]
His survivingdivan extends to 18,000distichs.Anvari accuses Mu'izzi of copying the verses of other poets (which cannot be proven for certain), yet Anvari himself is known to have copied Mu'izzi's verses. Mu'izzi is said to have died by the arrow shot at him by the King's son in 1125 CE for reasons unknown. He was accidentally shot by Sanjar.[2]
Mu'izzi was ofPersian[3] origin. He was born to Abd al-Malik Burhani, the renowned poet laureate (Amir al-Shoara) who sojourned at the courts of theSeljuk rulersAlp Arslan andMalik-Shah I.[4]
Some of his poems were dedicated to his father's patrons. Not much is known of his father's work. Burhani died inQazvin during the early years ofMalik-Shah I's reign. Mu'izzi's claim to have succeeded his father as 'the nightingale's child', seemingly justified by a famous verse cited byNizami Aruzi andAufi, has been cast into doubt aslacunae and possible attribution of the line to another writer. Burhani's divan seems to have been lost early in history, and few references survive from anthologies or later works.Raduyani quotes Burhani once inTarjuman ul-Balagha, but other than this, his name is absent from known works produced in later centuries, such asRashid al-Din Vatvat'sHada'iq al-sihr andShams-i Qays'sal-Mujam. Both later works contain references to Mu'izzi, but none of his father. Mu'izzi himself quotes his father's work once, in aqasida for the deputy ofNizam al-Mulk.[5]
Mu'izzi was an admirer ofUnsuri andFarrukhi Sistani. His poems were composed in thepanegyric tradition they established, which was later to be imitated bySanai and others.[6]
Muizzi*, Muhammad b. Abd* al-Malik: Persian panegyrist of the Saljuq period and poet laureate of the Great Saljuqs Malik Shah II and Sanjar; 1049ca. 1125.
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