a very eminent Persian poet, born of poor parents in Khorassan early in the twelfth century. He enjoyed the especial favour of the Sultan Sandjar, whom he attended in all his warlike expeditions. On one occasion, when the sultan was besieging a rebellious vassal in the fortress of Hazarasp, a fierce poetical conflict was maintained between Anwari and his old rival Rasheed the poet, who was an inmate of the beleaguered castle, by means of verses fastened to arrows. Anwari died at Balkh in the year 1200. He is considered as one of the best and purest of the Persian poets. His chief work, *The Tears of Khorassan*, has been translated into English verse by Captain Kirkpatrick, in the *Asiatic Miscellany*.