Abū Bakr al-Kh^wārazmī, Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās (323–383/935–993), was a poet, scribe and adīb (man of letters). Since his birthplace and that of his father was Kh^wārazm and his mother was from Ṭabaristān in Iran, he occasionally introduced himself as ‘al-Kh^wārazmī’ or ‘al-Ṭabarī’, while in other sources he is referred to as ‘al-Ṭabarkhazmī’ or ‘al-Ṭabarkhazī’ (Abū Bakr, 47, 61, 81; al-Thaʿālibī, Yatīma, 4/204; al-Samʿānī, 9/38; cf. Ibn al-Qaysarānī, 97).

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