Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri (d. 1039/1040) was a 10-11th century
PersianPersian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is widely spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and to some extent in Iraq and Bahrain, and has a status of official language in the first three countries under different names...
(Tajik) poet.
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Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri (d. 1039/1040) was a 10-11th century
PersianPersian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is widely spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and to some extent in Iraq and Bahrain, and has a status of official language in the first three countries under different names...
(Tajik) poet.
He is said to have been born in
BalkhBalkh , known as Bactra to the Greeks and Baktri or Bagdhi to the Persians, was an ancient city and centre of Zoroastrianism in Northern Afghanistan...
, today located in
AfghanistanThe Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is a landlocked country in south central Asia. It is variously described as being located within Central Asia, South Asia, or the Middle East...
, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court, and was given the title
Malik-us Shu'ara (King of Poets').
His
Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which 2500 only remain today.