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Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami

Persian poet

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name	Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami
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birth_name	Mihyar al-Daylami
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birth_place	Daylam, Iran
death_date	1037 AD
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occupation	Poet
language	Arabic
period	Buyid period
genre	Ghazal, riddles, elegies
notableworks	Elegies on Ali and Husayn ibn Ali

Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (died 1037) was an Arabic-language poet of Daylamite origin during the Buyid period. Mihyar's poetry was dominated by metaphor, and he wrote in various poetic genres including ghazal, riddles, as well as writing elegies on Ali and Husayn ibn Ali.

A former Zoroastrian, Mihyar was converted to Shia Islam by his teacher who was also poet. Ibn Khallikan narrates that Mihyar was harshly rebuked by an acquaintance for reviling the companions of Muhammad.

Ibn Khallikan, who said Mihyar's works were so high in number that it fills four volumes, opined that Mihyar's writings "displayed great delicacy of thought and a remarkable loftiness of mind." However, Mihyar's poetic style was criticized for being "artificial and derivative."

References

Nefeli Papoutsakis, 'Abū l-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī (d. 568/1172) and his ''Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles''', ''Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes'', 109 (2019), 251–69.
Encyclopedia of Arabic literature, Volume 2 By Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkey, pg.525
[https://books.google.com/books?id=3KQNLHx8nxAC&q=mihyar A Literary History of Persia from the Earliest Times Until Firdawsh By Edward Granville Browne, pg. 207]
The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith By Sir [[Thomas Walker Arnold]], pg. 180
[https://books.google.com/books?id=eeE80B81GfgC&dq=hasan+mihyar&pg=PA517 Ibn Khallikan's Biographical dictionary, 3 By Ibn Khallikan, pg. 517-520]

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