Abu Al-Fath Al-Busti
Abu'l-Fath Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hussain ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Busti, more commonly known as Abu'l-Fath al-Busti (Arabic: أبو الفتح البُستي, Persian: ابوالفتح بُستی) was a Persian secretary and poet who wrote in Arabic and Persian. Abu Al-Fath Al-Busti was 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. 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.
Abu Al-Fath Al-Busti
- Name
- Abu'l-Fath al-Busti
- Born
- 942
- Birthplace
- Bost, Sistan, Ghaznavid Empire (now Lashkargah, Afghanistan)
- Died
- 1010 (aged 68)
- Place of death
- Bukhara, Transoxiana, Karakhanid Khanate (now Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
- Occupation
- Poet, secretary
- Nationality
- Ghaznavid Empire
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Abu'l-Fath Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hussain ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Busti, more commonly known as Abu'l-Fath al-Busti (Arabic: أبو الفتح البُستي, Persian: ابوالفتح بُستی) was a Persian secretary and poet who wrote in Arabic and Persian. Abu Al-Fath Al-Busti was 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. 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.
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• Name — Abu'l-Fath al-Busti • Born — 942 • Birthplace — Bost, Sistan, Ghaznavid Empire (now Lashkargah, Afghanistan) • Died — 1010 (aged 68) • Place of death — Bukhara, Transoxiana, Karakhanid Khanate (now Bukhara, Uzbekistan) • Occupation — Poet, secretary
Qasidah an-Nuniyyah (“Poem in Nun”)
Qasidah an-Nuniyyah (“Poem in Nun”)
• Illustration — 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).
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942
Abu Al-Fath Al-Busti born at Lashkar Gah.
1010
Abu Al-Fath Al-Busti died on 1 January 1010.
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Lashkar Gah.
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