 Unsuri

Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi () (died 1039/1040) was a 10-11th century (4 -5th solar Hejri) Persian poet.‘Unṣurī is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court of Mahmud of Ghazni, and was given the title "Malik-us Shu'ara" (King of Poets) under Sultan Maḥmūd of Ghazna.