Abu al-Walëd Muslim ibn al-Walëd al-Aná¹£ÃÂrë (; 130 H/748 ADâ 207 H/823 AD), also known as á¹¢arëâ al-GhawÃÂnë (, "The One Knocked Down by the Fair"), was among the finest poets of the early Abbasid period, and mawla of the Ansar. As worded by Hilary Kilpatrick, he was patronized by Abbasid dignitaries, one of the first masters of the "refined" badiÿ style, best known for wine and love songs, also composed panegyrics.
As worded by the Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, he was born and brought up in Kufa. He moved to Baghdad in the reign of Harun al-Rashid before the Barmakid debacle of 187 H/794 AD.
He gained favour by Al Fadl bin Sahl, a wazeer in the reign of the seventh Abbasid caliph al-Maþmà «n and was appointed as a postmaster in JurjÃÂn (Gorgan in present-day Iran) by al-Maþmà «n and remained and later in Isfahan. He withdrew from poetry after Al Fadl was murdered and led a lonely life until his death. He is buried in Gorgan.