Zahir-al-Din Faryabi explained

Zahir-al-Din Abu-al-Fazl Tahir ibn Muhammad (Persian: ظهیرالدّین ابوالفضل طاهر بن محمد; – 1201) mostly known as Zahir Faryabi (Persian: ظهیر فاریابی) was a 12th-century Persian poet.^[1]

He was born about 1156 (551 AH) in Faryab (in today's Afghanistan), and was probably of Turkish blood.^[2] His works mostly consist of Qasidas for several Seljuq Emirs. He dedicated at least one poem to the Shirvanshah Akhsitan I. He died in 1201 in Tabriz.

References

• Book: de Blois, Francois . Persian Literature - A Bio-Bibliographical Survey: Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period (Volume V) . 2004 . Routledge . 978-0947593476 .
• de Bruijn, J. T. P. (24 January 2012) [15 December 1999]. "Fāryābī, Ẓahīr-al-Dīn Abu’l-Fażl Ṭāher". Encyclopædia Iranica (online ed.).
• Book: Khanbaghi, Aptin . The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran . Brill . 2016 . 978-9004311992 . Nicola . Bruno . Melville . Charles . 193–215 . Champions of the Persian Language: The Mongols or the Turks?.
• Rypka, Jan (1968). History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. .
• Rypka, Jan (1968). "8. Poets and Prose Writers of the Late Saljuq and Mongol Periods". Boyle, J. A. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 577.

Notes and References

1. de Bruijn 2012.
2. Rypka (Boyle, ed.) 1968, v, p. 577.