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 Abu Ishaq Inju ( fa, ابو اسحاق اینجو) was the last Injuid ruler from 1343 to 1357. During his reign the city of Shiraz flourished, consisting of prominent figures such as Hafez, Khwaju Kermani and Ubayd Zakani. In 1357, the Muzaffari ...

(). During his youth, Shams-i Fakhri served in the court of the

Hazaraspids 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 p ...

of Luristan, where he dedicated the poem ''Mi‘yar-i nusrati'' to its ruler Nusrat al-Din Ahmad () in 1313. He subsequently joined the court of

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, the Persian vizier of the

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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