Salman Savaji
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Salman Savaji (died 1376) was a
Jalayirids.[2] He was born in 1309/10 in the town of Savah, located in Persian Iraq (Irāq-i Ajam), a region corresponding to the western part of Iran.[3] He belonged to a family of accountants, who had served the viziers of the Ilkhanate. His father served under the vizier Sa'd al-Din Savaji, who was also from Savah. Salman himself received an education in the field of the divan and chancery, but had also started to distinguish himself as a poet during the reign of the last Ilkhanate ruler Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (r. 1316–1335). He dedicated a qasida (ode) entitled Bada'i al-Ashar (or Abhar) to his patron, the vizier Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (died 1336).[4]
References
Sources
- Khafipour, Hani (2019). The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231174374.
- Babaie, Sussan (2019). Iran After the Mongols. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1788315289.
- Wing, Patrick (2016). The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1474402255.