Shams-i Fakhri () was an

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lexicographer and philologist, who is best known as the author of the ''Mi'yar-i Jamali va-miftah-i Bu Ishaki'' ("The bird-trap offered to Jamal and the key entrusted to Abu Ishak"), dedicated in 1344 to the last Injuid ruler of Fars, Abu Ishaq Inju (). During his youth, Shams-i Fakhri served in the court of the Hazaraspids of

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, where he dedicated the poem ''Mi‘yar-i nusrati'' to its ruler Nusrat al-Din Ahmad () in 1313. He subsequently joined the court of Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, the Persian vizier of the

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. He later joined the court of the Injuids.

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* * {{EI2, last=Massé, first=H., volume=2, title=Fak̲h̲rī, url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/fakhri-SIM_2247 14th-century Persian-language writers Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown Poets from the Ilkhanate Injuid-period poets Poets of the Hazaraspids 14th-century Iranian writers