He was son to a prince of Khorasan, and born about the ninety-seventh year of the Hegira.

Mohammed Ben Arfa, here called Naphta-Wah, was descended from a noble family in Khorasan.

Alabiwerdy, who wrote these verses, was a native of Khorasan; he died A.H. 507.

That honor belongs to Abu Said of Khorasan (968-1049), who used it as a means of expressing his mystic pantheism.

In the days of Omar it was by far the most important city of Khorasan.

Could it be possible that in the eleventh century, so far away as Khorasan, so accomplished a man of letters lived, with such distinction, such breadth, such insight, such calm disillusions, such cheerful and jocund despair?

Here, in Khorasan, the mass of the horde settled and remained: and it was only a comparatively small section which went on westward as military adventurers to fall upon Bagdad, Syria, Egypt, and Asia Minor.