Asjadi

{{short description|10th/11th-century Persian royal poet}}

Image:The Poets Firdawsi, 'Unsuri, and 'Asjadi - Walters W6032B - Full Page.png-era miniature of the poets Ferdowsi, Unsuri and Asjadi]]

Abu Nazar ʿAbdul ʿAziz bin Mansur ʿAsjadi ({{langx|fa|ابونظر عبدالعزیز بن منصور عسجدی}}) was a 10th-11th century royal Persian poet of the Ghaznavid empire located in the Ghazni province of today's Afghanistan.

Originating from Merv, and in some accounts Herat, he was a follower of the panegyric school of poetry of Unsuri in Khorasan, and was a companion of Farrukhi Sistani and Ferdowsi as well.{{Cite book|title=A Literary History of Persia Vol. II: From Firdawsi to Sa'di|last=Browne|first=Edward G.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1956|location=Cambridge|page=129}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/asjadi-abu-nazar-abd-al-aziz-b|title=ʿASJADĪ – Encyclopaedia Iranica|website=www.iranicaonline.org|access-date=2019-12-06}}

His Divan was already unavailable by the 15th century (if not earlier) and is unknown though around 200 of his verses had been recorded elsewhere. A quatrain attributed to Asjadi was translated by Edward Granville Browne as follows:

I do repent of wine and talk of wine,

Of idols fair with charms like silver fine:

A lip-repentance and a lustful heart—

O God, forgive this penitence of mine!{{Cite book|title=A Literary History of Persia Vol. II: From Firdawsi to Sa'di|last=Browne|first=Edward G.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1956|location=Cambridge|page=123}}

Another verse, quoted in the Qabus-Nama and attributed to Asjadi, is also translated by Browne: "In youth or age did the question lie, / The young would live and the old would die."{{Cite book|title=A Literary History of Persia Vol. II: From Firdawsi to Sa'di|last=Browne|first=Edward G.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1956|location=Cambridge|page=285}}

Asjadi died between 1040 and 1043 CE.