Unsuri
Sign in to savethumb|Qajar Iran|Qajar-era miniature of the poets [[Ferdowsi, Unsuri, and Asjadi]] '''Abu'l-Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi' (; died 1039/1040) 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 (King of Poets) 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 Parthenop
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thumb|Qajar Iran|Qajar-era miniature of the poets [[Ferdowsi, Unsuri, and Asjadi]] '''Abu'l-Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi' (; died 1039/1040) 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 (King of Poets) 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''.
==See also== List of Persian poets and authors