Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi Biography | Poet

Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Ali, known as Nizami-i Aruzi-i Samarqandi (Persian) and also Arudi ("The Prosodist"), was a Persian poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161 AD. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maghaleh ("Four Discourses"), his only work to fully survive. While living in Samarqand, Abu’l-Raja Ahmad b. Abd-Al-amad, a dehqan in Transoxiana, told Nezami of how the poet Rudaki was given compensation for his poem extolling the virtues of Samanid Amir Nasr b. Ahmad.