ʿAbd al-Karīm Kh^wārazmī, a 9th/15th-century Persian poet and calligrapher. He was the son of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (q.v.) and the brother of ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Kh^wārazmī (q.v.), both renowned calligraphers (ʿAlī Shīr, 301; Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad, 83). He is believed to have been born in Shīrāz, where he spent most of his life. If he did officially enter the court of Yaʿqūb Āq-qūyūnlū (r. 883–896/1478–1491) and receive patronage, as implied by the fact that he occasionally used the epithet ‘al-Yaʿqūbī’, this means that ʿAbd al-Karīm…