Zahir al-Din Nishapuri (died ) was a

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

writer and the author of the ''

Saljuq-nama The Saljūq-Nāma (, "Book of Seljuk mpire) is a history of the Seljuk Empire written by the Persian historian Zahir al-Din Nishapuri around 1175. Written in New Persian, it has been acknowledged as the primary source for Saljuq material for ...

'' ("Book of Seljuk mpire), an important source regarding the history of the

Seljuk Empire The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a High Middle Ages, high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian tradition, Turco-Persian, Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qiniq (tribe), Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. ...

. The life of Nishapuri is obscure; he is reported to have served as tutor of the previous Seljuk sultans,

Ghiyath ad-Din Mas'ud Ghiyath al-Dunya wa'l-Din Abu'l-Fath Mas'ud bin Muhammad ( 1107 – 10 October 1152) was the Seljuq Sultan of Iraq and western Persia in 1133–1152. Reign Ghiyath ad-Din Masud was the son of sultan Muhammad I Tapar and his wife Nistandar Jaha ...

() and Arslan ibn Tughril (r. 1153). Although the ''Saljuq-nama'' is now lost, it was used as the primary source of the contemporary Persian historian

Muhammad ibn Ali Rawandi Muhammad ibn Ali Rawandi (; died after 1207), was a Persian historian who wrote the '' Rahat al-sudur wa ayat al-surur'' during the fall of the Great Seljuk Empire and the subsequent invasion by the Kharwarzmian empire. The only source that giv ...

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* {{EI2, last=Bosworth, first=C.E., volume=8, title=Nīs̲h̲āpūrī, pages=64, url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/nishapuri-SIM_5931 Scholars from the Seljuk Empire 1184 deaths Year of birth unknown 12th-century Iranian writers 12th-century Persian-language writers