Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani

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Zu'l Fiqar Shirvani

Persian poet of the Ilkhanid-era.[1] His divan consists of 9,000 verses. Mohammad Dabirsiaqi / Encyclopædia Iranica notes that "he was generally recognized as a master of versification".[1]

Biography

Zu'l-Fiqar born to a certain Sadr al-Din Ali. He was patronized by Atabeg Yusofshah I of the Fazluya branch of the Atabegs of Lorestan. Zu'l-Fiqar dedicated several panegyric odes to Yusofshah, and also wrote similar poems for Ilkhanid ruler Gaykhatu, the Qara-Khitai amir Jalal al-Din Soyurgatmesh (who ruled in Kerman), and Padishah Khatun (who succeeded Soyurgatmesh in Kerman).[1]

Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani's tomb is located in

Maqbaratoshoara, in Tabriz, northwestern Iran.[1]

Works

According to Mohammad Dabirsiaqi / Encyclopædia Iranica, Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani's poems have a "charming, lyrical quality". Among his "more important works", one finds the Mafatih ol-kalam va madayeh ol-keram, dedicated to Khvajeh Mohammad Mastari (a

distichs (abyat) with different meters.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Also transliterated as "Zo'l Faqar Shirvani", "D(h)u'l Faqar Shirvani", "Zo'l Feqar Shirvani", "Zol Feqar-e Shirvani".

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Dabirsiaqi 1996, p. 569.

Sources

  • Dabirsiaqi, Mohammad (1996). "ḎU'L-FAQĀR ŠĪRVĀNĪ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VII, Fasc. 6. p. 569.

Further reading

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