Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās Abū Bakr al-Khwārazmī, better simply known as Abu Bakr al-Khwarazmi was a 10th century Persian poet born in Khwarazm (region in Central Asia conquered by Achaemenids in the 6th century BC), who throughout his long career served in the court of the Hamdanids, Samanids, Saffarids and Buyids.
[1] For a time, al-Khwarizmi worked as a clerk in the Samanid court at Bukhara in Transoxania,[2][3] where he acquired his nickname, “al-Katib’’ which literally means “the secretary” or “the scribe”.
It was produced at the request of Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿUtbī a vizier in the court of Amir, Nuh II.
However, his reputation was eclipsed following the arrival of an aspiring young scholar and writer, Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani in 383/992.
Hamadani composed a new form of prose that gained enormous popularity firstly in Nishapur and later across the Arabic speaking world; this innovative genre became known as maqama.