Abu Ishaq al-Ghazzi

Abu Ishaq al-Ghazzi Ibrahim b. 'Uthman, the poet of the age and bearer of the banner of verse; much-travelled through the lands of the mountains and Khurasan, he entered Damascus and heard the jurist Nasr al-Maqdisi in 481, travelled to Baghdad and dwelt many years at the Nizamiyya, praising more than one of its teachers. ¹

Then he travelled to Khurasan, praised a company of its chiefs and his verse spread there; his diwan he chose himself, its preface saying it held a thousand lines. Al-'Imad the katib said he "roamed the lands, transmitted much and lodged widely, threading the provinces of Khurasan and Kirman and meeting the people"; he praised Nasir al-Din Mukarram b. al-'Ala', vizier of Kirman, in his ba'iyya ode. He died in the district of Balkh in 524 at eighty-three. ¹