Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri (Persian: ابوالقاسم حسن عنصری بلخی) (d. 1039/1040) was a 10-11th century Persian (Tajik) poet.

He is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court, and was given the title Malik-us Shu'ara (King of Poets').

His Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which 2500 only remain today.

References

• E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
• Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 OCLC 460598. ISBN 90-277-0143-1

See also

• Suri
• List of Persian poets and authors

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