Mu'izzi
Amīr ash-Shu‘arā’ Abū Abdullāh Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Malik Mu‘izzī of Neyshāpūr was a Persian poet. He ranks as one of the great masters of the Persian panegyric form known as qasideh.
Mu‘izzī's father, ‘Abd al-Malik Burhānī, was poet laureate of Sanjar under Malik Shāh I and Sultān Sanjar. His son followed, self-consciously, in his footsteps, styling himself as his father's deputy and inheriting his role. He was renowned both in his own time and to later scholarship.
His surviving divan extends to 18,000 distichs. Anvari accuses Mu'izzi of copying the verses of other poets, yet Anvari himself is known to have copied Mu'izzi's verses. Mu'izzi is said to have died by the arrow shot at him by the King's son in 1125 CE for reasons unknown. He was accidentally shot by Sanjar.
