Nasrallah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid Shirazi ( fa, نصرالله بن محمد بن عبدالحمید شیرازی), better known as Abu'l-Ma'ali Nasrallah (ابوالمعالی نصرالله), was a
Persian poet and statesman who served as the ''
vizier
A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called '' katib'' (secretary), who was ...
'' of the
Ghaznavid
The Ghaznavid dynasty ( fa, غزنویان ''Ġaznaviyān'') was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic ''mamluk'' origin, ruling, at its greatest extent, large parts of Persia, Khorasan, much of Transoxiana and the northwest ...
Sultan
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Khusrau Malik
Abu'l-Muzaffar Khusrau Malik ibn Khusrau-Shah ( fa, ابوالمظفر خسروملک بن خسروشاه), better simply known as Khusrau Malik (; also spelled Khosrow), was the last Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 1160 to 1186. He w ...
.
Biography
Nasrallah was born in
Ghazni
Ghazni ( prs, غزنی, ps, غزني), historically known as Ghaznain () or Ghazna (), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana ( gr, Αλεξάνδρεια Ωπιανή), is a city in southeastern Afghanistan ...
; he was the grandson of
Abd al-Hamid Shirazi Abd al-Hamid ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Samad Shirazi ( fa, عبدالحمید بن احمد بن عبدالصمد شیرازی), better known as Abd al-Hamid Shirazi (عبدالحمید شیرازی), was a Persian ''vizier'' of the Ghaznavid Sultan Ibr ...
, a prominent Ghaznavid vizier, who himself was the son of the prominent Ghaznavid vizier
Ahmad Shirazi, who was the son of
Abu Tahir Shirazi, a secretary under the
Samanids, whose family was originally from
Shiraz
Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...
in
southern Iran
Southern Iran consists of the southern mountain ranges of Zagros and Central Iranian Range, Khuzestan Plain and the northern coasts of Persian Gulf and Straight of Hormuz.
It includes the provinces of Fars, Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad, Hormo ...
. Nasrallah later became a secretary at the Ghaznavid court, and also became a poet. Between 1143 and 1146, Nasrallah translated the
Arabic
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translated Indian fable story ''
Kalila wa Dimna'' to
Persian, and dedicated it to Sultan
Bahram-Shah.
During the reign of the Bahram-Shah's grandson, the last Ghaznavid Sultan Khusrau Malik, Nasrallah was appointed as his vizier, but later fell into disfavor and was imprisoned, and then executed.
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