Nusrat al-Din Ahmad was the

Hazaraspid The Hazaraspids ( fa, هزاراسپیان, 1115–1424), was a Kurdish dynasty that ruled the Zagros Mountains region of southwestern Iran, essentially in Lorestan and which flourished in the later Saljuq, Ilkhanid, Muzaffarid, and Timurid per ...

ruler (''

atabeg Atabeg, Atabek, or Atabey is a hereditary title of nobility of Turkic origin, indicating a governor of a nation or province who was subordinate to a monarch and charged with raising the crown prince. The first instance of the title's use was wit ...

'') of Luristan from 1296 to 1330. He succeeded his father Afrasiyab I after the latters execution under the orders of their suzerain, the

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, ...

ruler

Ghazan Mahmud Ghazan (5 November 1271 – 11 May 1304) (, Ghazan Khan, sometimes archaically spelled as Casanus by the Westerners) was the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304. He was the son of A ...

(). Before his rise to kingship, Nusrat al-Din Ahmad had spent much time as a hostage at the court of the Ilkhanate. After his death, he was succeeded by his son Rukn al-Din Yusufshah II. Nusrat al-Din Ahmad was notably a patron of

Persian literature Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...

, with three works dedicated to him. The historical chronicle of ''Tajarib al-Salaf'', a Persian translation and modification of the

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

''Kitab al-fakhri'', was presented to Nusrat al-Din Ahmad by Muhammad ibn Hendushah Nakhjavani after 1323. The second work—also a historical chronicle—was the ''Mu‘jam fi athar muluk al-Ajam'' by

Sharaf al-Din Fazlullah Qazvini Sharaf al-Din Fazlullah Qazvini (died 1339) was the author of the Persian language ''Mu‘jam fi athar muluk al-Ajam'', a history of ancient Iran The history of Iran is intertwined with the history of a larger region known as Greater Iran, compr ...

. The third work was the ''Mi‘yar-i nusrati'', a poem written by

Shams-i Fakhri Shams-i Fakhri () was an Iranian 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 I ...

in 1313. In the ''Mu‘jam'', Nusrat al-Din Ahmad is regarded a "the greatest sovereign, the ruler of the Persian kings, the Chosroes of Iran, heir to the Kayanid sovereignty, the Jamshid of the age, the Darius of the time, eraser of the traces of the Barmakids," thus demonstrating the Iranian cultural environment that he was part of. He is likewise portrayed in a positive light by the Ilkhanate court historians

Shabankara'i Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad Shabankara'i ( fa, محمد بن علی بن محمد شبانکرائی; c. 1298–1358), better known as Shabankara'i () was a Persian poet and historian of Kurdish origin. He wrote in the Persian language and flou ...

and

Hamdallah Mustawfi Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini ( fa, حمدالله مستوفى قزوینی, Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī; 1281 – after 1339/40) was a Persian official, historian, geographer and poet. He lived during the last era of the Mongol Ilkhanate, and ...

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