al-Marghīnānī, Naṣr b. al-Ḥasan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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van Gelder, Geert Jan
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Abū l-Ḥasan Naṣr b. al-Ḥasan al-Marghīnānī was a fifth/eleventh-century Arabic poet and literary critic known for his treatise on badīʿ (figures of speech and stylistics). He was born in Marghīnān, a town in Farghāna in Transoxania (today's Margilan in Uzbekistan), and settled in Zawzan, in Khurāsān, "in the days of its ruler, Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyā," who became his patron, according to his contemporary, al-Bākharzī (d. 476/1075), in his anthology Dumyat al-qaṣr (ed. al-Ḥulw, 2:123,