Abu Mo’in Hamid ad-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani or Nāsir Khusraw Qubādiyānī Balkhi (Persian: ناصر خسرو قبادیانی, romanized: Nasir Khusraw Qubadiani) also spelled as Nasir Khusrow and Naser Khosrow (1004 – after 1070 CE) was a Persian poet, philosopher, Isma'ili scholar, traveler and one of the greatest writers in Persian literature. He was born in Qabodiyon, a village in Bactria in the ancient Greater Iranian province of Khorasan, now in modern Tajikistan and died in Yamagan, now Afghanistan.