Abu al-Fath al-Busti

Abu'l-Fath al-Busti
Born942
Bost, Sistan, Ghaznavid Empire (now Lashkargah, Afghanistan)
Died1010 (aged 68)
Bukhara, Transoxiana, Karakhanid Khanate (now Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
OccupationsPoet, secretary

Abu'l-Fath Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hussain ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Busti (Arabic: أبو الفتح علي بن محمد بن الحسين بن يوسف بن محمد بن عَبْد العَزِيز البستي, Persian: ابوالفتح علی بن محمد بن حسین بن یوسف بن محمد بن عبدالعزیز بُستی), more commonly known as Abu'l-Fath al-Busti (Arabic: أبو الفتح البُستي, Persian: ابوالفتح بُستی) was a Persian[1] secretary and poet who wrote in Arabic and Persian.[2] Born in the ancient city Bost (today Lashkargah, Afghanistan) in Sistan, he served in the chancery of the Ghaznavid Amirs Sebuktigin and his son and successor Mahmud.[3]

Abu al-Fath was, amongst others, a student of the well known Islamic scholar Ibn Hibban who derives from the same city and from whom he learned the Islamic sciences of Hadith and Fiqh.

Works

Qasidah an-Nuniyyah (“Poem in Nun”)

A copy from the manuscript "Unwan al Hikam", Umm al-Qura University, Nr. 15281-2

The poem is also known under the title of "Unwan al-Hikam" ("The Title for Wisdoms") and "Ziyadat ul-Mar’i fi-Dunyahi Nuqsan" ("To Rise in One's World Is to Decline"). It is a Qasida which relates to moral aphorisms and akhlaq (good character).

References

  1. ↑ Danner, Victor (1975). "Arabic Literature in Iran". In Frye, Richard N. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 592. ISBN 0-521-20093-8.
  2. ↑ Mehran, Arzandeh; Azartash, Azarnoosh; Simin, Rahimi (16 October 2015). "Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bustī". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ Meisami, Julie Scott; Starkey, Paul (31 May 1998). Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415185714 – via Google Books.
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