Abd al-Wasi Jabali

عبدالواسع جبلی

1108–1160

Badi al-Zaman Abd al-Wasi ibn Abd al-Jami Jabali Gharjistani was a well-known Persian-speaking poet and man of letters who lived in the sixth century AH. He was born in Gharjistan, a province in Afghanistan located to the east of Herat. Abd al-Wasi Jabali Gharjistani was trained in religious studies and had mastery of Quranic exegesis, jurisprudence, theology, and hadith, as well as Persian and Arabic poetry. Jabali was one of the pioneers of the shift from the Khorasani style to the Iraqi style. He died in 555 AH.