BEHA UD-DIN ZUHAIR (ABU-L FADL ZUHAIR IBN MO HAMMED AL-MUHALLABT) (1186-1258), Arabian poet, became celebrated as the best writer of prose and verse and the best calligraphist of his time. His poetry consists mostly of panegyric and brilliant occasional verse distinguished for its elegance. It has been published with English metrical translation by E. H. Palmer His life was written by his contemporary Ibn Khallikan (see M`G. de Slane's trans. of his Biographical Dictionary, vol. i. pp.