Shams-i Fakhri () was an
Iranian
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
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
Luristan, where he dedicated the poem ''Mi‘yar-i nusrati'' to its ruler
Nusrat al-Din Ahmad
Nusrat al-Din Ahmad was the Hazaraspid ruler (''atabeg'') of Luristan from 1296 to 1330. He succeeded his father Afrasiyab I after the latters execution under the orders of their suzerain, the Ilkhanate ruler Ghazan (). Before his rise to kingship ...
() in 1313. He subsequently joined the court of
Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din, the Persian vizier of the
Mongol
The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal member ...
Ilkhanate
The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate ( fa, ایل خانان, ''Ilxānān''), known to the Mongols as ''Hülegü Ulus'' (, ''Qulug-un Ulus''), was a khanate established from the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. The Ilkhanid realm, ...
. 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
Ilkhanate-period poets
Injuid-period poets
Poets of the Hazaraspids
14th-century Iranian people