Rashid al-Din Vatvat
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Rashid al-Din Vatvat
Rashid al-Din Muhammad Umar-i Vatvāt (d. 1182–1183)[1] was a 12th century royal panegyrist and epistolographer of Persia. He was born in Balkh, (now modern-day Afghanistan).[2]
Served at the court of Khwarazmshah Kings, he is not to be mistaken for a later physician by the name Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat. While serving as court poet, it was through him that Atsiz ibn Muhammad boasted of the end of the Great Seljuq empire.[3]
He also composed qasidehs, but his rhetorical work Hadā'iq 'us-sihr ("The Gardens of Magic") is in prose.
References
- ^ Ihām, Encyclopædia Iranica
- ^ Arthur John Arberry, Classical Persian Literature, (Curzon Press Ltd, 1994), 105.
- ^ The Political and Dynastic History of the Iranian World, C.E. Bosworth, The Cambridge History of Iran, Ed. J. A. Boyle, (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 145.
- Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 OCLC 460598. ISBN 90-277-0143-1
- Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Persian Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles: A Descriptive Catalogue, Humana Civilitas, vol. 4 (Malibu: Udena Publications, 1978), p. 3.
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