ABSTRACT
Not included here are poets known to us by name, but who have not left us any verses. We have also excluded the versifying amateurs cited (often at considerable length) in the first volume of cAufi's work, apart from those who are also quoted (and thus evidently recognised as more or less respectable poets) by Asadi or Raduyani. [61]
1. A long qasldah by one cAbhari in praise of the Seljuq Alp Arslan (455/1063 to 465/1072; the king's name is mentioned in the 3rd verse) is quoted by Jajarmi. Hidayat, who quotes a dozen lines from the same poem, as well as some other verses, calls their author cAbd alMajid cAbhari Ghaznawi, evidently identifying him with the cAbd alMajid cAbhari whom cAufl had included near the end of his chapter devoted to what he rather inadequately calls the Seljuq poets of Ghanzin and Lahore (and which in fact contains mainly the panegyrists of the later Ghaznavids). If the two are in fact identical it would seem that cAufi lacked reliable information about when this poet lived. But perhaps we have rather two different cAbharis.
