The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Feisi, Abul Feis ibn Mubárak

FEISI, Abul Feis ibn Mubárak, ā'bool fā ēs ibn moo-bä'räk fī'si or fā-ē-sē', Indo-Persian poet and scholar: b. Agra, India, 1547; d. there 1595. He surpassed all his contemporaries in philological, philosophical, historical and medical knowledge, and about 1572 was crowned &ldquo;king of poesy&rdquo; in the court of the Emperor Akbar. Of his poems the most noteworthy are his lyrics — odes, encomia, elegies and specially his four-line pieces or apothegms. Their exalted pantheism brought on him the enmity of the orthodox Moslem clergy. He wrote also many double-rhymed poems; and a Persian imitation of the famous Indian epic &lsquo;Nala and Damajanti,&rsquo; designed to form the third member of an epic cycle of which the first was to be &lsquo;The Centre of the Circle,&rsquo; the second &lsquo;Solomon and Balkis&rsquo; (the queen of Sheba), the fourth &lsquo;The Seven Zones of the Earth,&rsquo; and the fifth &lsquo;The History of Akbar&rsquo;; only the first and third were completed. His scientific treatises were numerous.