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Abu al-Fath al-Busti (ʿAli ibn Muhammad)

أبو الفتح البُستي (علي بن محمد)

Notable figure c. 330–400 AH / 941–1010 CE · Source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, «BÜSTÎ, Ebü’l-Feth» (born 330–335/941–946 in Büst in southern Afghanistan; d. 400/1010; Dîvân; Zü’l-lisâneyn) · Second source: Encyclopaedia Iranica, «BOST» (archeological site and town in southwest Afghanistan)

Affiliation

Poet and epistolographer; Arabic diwan of wisdom verse

Biography

Born in Bust, in the south of present-day Afghanistan, where he studied language and literature. He is known for the gnomic verse of his Arabic diwan and was a renowned chancery writer; his best-known poem is the nuniyya that opens 'Ziyadat al-mar' fi dunyahu nuqsan'.