Anwarī, Awḥad al-Dīn Muḥammad, was a prominent Persian poet of the 6th/12th century.
He was born either in the village of Bādana, a dependency of Khurāsān (Faṣīḥ, 267), or Badana, a dependency of Abīward (Dawlatshāh, 67). There is some confusion over his full name: ʿAwfī (Lubāb, 125) gives it as Muḥammad b. Muḥammad, but Anwarī’s contemporary, Muḥammad Samarqandī (author of the Sindbād-nāmah), records it as Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Isḥāq, which would seem more likely as the poet himself …