1. Khaqani was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as an ode-writer to the Shirvanshahs.
10 Facts About Khaqani
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Khaqani is notable for his contributions to the genre of habsiyat.
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Khaqani was born into the family of a carpenter in Shirvan.
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Khaqani's mother was originally a slave-girl of Nestorian Christian faith who had converted to Islam.
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Minorsky identified Andronicus Comnenus as the patron to whom Khaqani addressed this poem.
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Khaqani suffered several family bereavements, including the death of his first wife, and his young son, Rashid-al-Din.
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About the same time, Khaqani went on a second pilgrimage, after which he retired from court life to settle at Tabriz.
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Khaqani's surviving prose works include the prose introduction to the aforementioned mathnawi, and approximately sixty letters attributed to him.
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Khaqani is widely considered to be a major Persian language poet.
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Khaqani's habsiyat is considered one of the finest of its kind.