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28: 693: 307:, he was the given the nickname "Vatvat" (the swallow) due to his small size and eloquent words. He was disliked by several poets and courtiers due to his bad temper, which led to them mock him at court meetings for his small size and baldness. Vatvat successfully defended him against these taunts with his rhetorical skills. 346:, who all praised him. Vatvat also praised them (particularly Adib Sabir) in his own poems, but his panegyrics were often written in a satirical way either due to the change in political climate or because of his notably bad temper. 295:), who at one point was determined to have Vatvat cut into 30 pieces, but was talked out of it by his chief secretary Muntajab al-Din Juvayni. Vatvat died in 1182/3 in Khwarazm at the age of 97. 563: 284:
was near its end, and the Khwarazmshahs were in the ascendancy. Vatvat's loyalty towards Atsiz earned him the hostility of the latter's overlord, the Seljuk ruler
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and Persian, he also occupied high-ranking offices, serving as the chief secretary and propagandist under the Khwarazmshahs
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of the court, Vatvat was in extensive poetic correspondence with the leading poets of his time, such as
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Although Vatvat spent most of his life in the Khwarazmian capital of
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of Vatvat, written in Persian, contains 8,500 verses, mainly
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Rashid al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Jalil al-Umari
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Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume XIV: Isfahan IX–Jobbāʾi
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Brill. pp. 444–445. 423: 110:رشیدالدین محمد بن محمد بن عبد جلیل العمری 560: 533: 506: 474: 459: 447: 404: 385: 707: 656: 373: 361: 303:According to 15th-century biographer 615:Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition 242:(scribe) by craft, and moved to the 730:Officials of the Khwarazmian Empire 715:12th-century Persian-language poets 179:Hada'iq al-sihr fi daqa'iq al-shi'r 118: 109: 13: 534:Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (2008). 258:(chief secretary) by Khwarazmshah 14: 756: 735:Poets from the Khwarazmian Empire 691: 290: 275: 264: 215: 147: 136: 298: 1: 349: 236:tradition. There he became a 159:, he was himself a native of 48: 720:12th-century Iranian writers 220:). Vatvat was educated at a 189: 95:Secretary, poet, philologist 7: 609:Chalisova, Natalia (2000). 10: 761: 672:Cambridge University Press 490:Cambridge University Press 468: 176:, but his rhetorical work 37:One Hundred Sayings by Ali 642:. 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Index


Incipit
Balkh
Bukhara
Khwarazm
Khwarazmian Empire
Persian
Khwarazmian Empire
Arabic
Atsiz
Il-Arslan
Gurganj
Balkh
Bukhara
panegyric
qasidehs
Hada'iq al-sihr fi daqa'iq al-shi'r
prose
Balkh
Bukhara
Persian
Caliph
Omar
Nizamiya
madrasa
Arabic
philological
katib
Central Asian
Khwarazm

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