Farrukhi, Abdul-Hasan Ali Ibn Julugh

Farrukhi, Abdul-Hasan Ali Ibn Julugh 

(also Farrokhi of Sistan). Date of birth unknown; died 1037 or 1038. Persian and Tadzhik poet.

Farrukhi mainly wrote panegyrical qasidas. A court poet of Sultan Mahmud al-Ghazni, he first achieved recognition with the qasida Daggah (The Horse-Branding Field), a brilliant treatment of the form, in which superb landscape description alternates with fawning praise of the sultan. In a lengthy qasida, Farrukhi described Mahmud’s march into India (1025). His elegy on the sultan’s death is considered to be unsurpassed in Persian poetry. The narrative poem Shahriyar-nameh is attributed to him. Farrukhi was a man of extraordinary talent. His precise style and expressive use of language spawned many imitators, and his work was an important influence in Persian poetry.

WORKS

Diwan-e Hakim Farrahi-ye Sistani. Tehran, A.H. 1335 (A.D. 1957).

REFERENCES

Bertel’s, E. E. Istoriia persidsko-tadzhikskoi literatury. Moscow, 1960.
Istoriia persidskoi i tadzhikskoi literatury. Edited by Jan Rypka. Moscow, 1970. (Translated from Czech.)
Safa, Z. Tarikh-e adabiyyat dar Iran, vol. 2. Tehran, A.H. 1347 (A.D. 1968).
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