Afḍal al-Dīn Badīl b. ʿAlī b. Uthmān Khāqānī Shirvānī was a sixth/twelfth-century Persian poet best known for his panegyrical qaṣīdas (poems rhyming AA, BA, CA and usually panegyrical, ethical, or religious).
1. Life
He was born presumably in 521/1127 (as deducible from a chronogram in his Dīvān, 14, v. 13, corroborated by other references in the Dīvān) in Shirvān, a region in the eastern Caucasus, in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan. He died in Tabriz in Iran most probably in …