Zahir-al-Din Faryabi

Zahir-al-Din Abu-al-Fazl Tahir ibn Muhammad (; – 1201) mostly known as Zahir Faryabi () was a 12th-century Persian poet.de Bruijn 2012.

He was born about 1156 (551 AH) in Faryab (in today's Afghanistan), and was probably of Turkish blood.Rypka (Boyle, ed.) 1968, v, p. 577. His works mostly consist of Qasidas for several Seljuq Emirs. He dedicated at least one poem to the Shirvanshah Akhsitan I. He died in 1201 in Tabriz.

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de Bruijn, J. T. P. (24 January 2012) [15 December 1999]. "Fāryābī, Ẓahīr-al-Dīn Abu’l-Fażl Ṭāher". Encyclopædia Iranica (online ed.).

Rypka, Jan (1968). History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. . Rypka, Jan (1968). "8. Poets and Prose Writers of the Late Saljuq and Mongol Periods". Boyle, J. A. (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 577.