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ANWARI [Auhad-uddin Ali Anwari]

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANWARI [Auhad-uddin
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Ali Anwari]  ,
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Persian poet, was
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born in
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Khorasan
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early in the 12th
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century . He enjoyed the especial favour of the
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sultan Sinjar, whom he attended in all his warlike expeditions . On one occasion, when the sultan was besieging the fortress of Hazarasp, a fierce poetical conflict was maintained between
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Anwari and his
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rival Rashidi, who .was within the beleaguered
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castle, by means of verses fastened to arrows . Anwari died at
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Balkh towards the end of the 12th century . The Diwan, or collection of his poems, consists of a
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series of
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long poems, and a number of simpler lyrics . His longest piece, The Tears of Khorassan, was translated into
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English
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verse by
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Captain Kirkpatrick (see also
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PERSIA . Literature) .

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