Nasrallah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid Shirazi (), better known as Abu'l-Ma'ali Nasrallah (ابوالمعالی نصرالله), was a Persian poet and statesman who served as the ''

vizier A vizier (; ; ) is a high-ranking political advisor or Minister (government), minister in the Near East. The Abbasids, Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was at first merely a help ...

'' of the Ghaznavid

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Khusrau Malik.

Biography

Nasrallah was born in

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; he was the grandson of Abd al-Hamid Shirazi, a prominent Ghaznavid vizier, who himself was the son of the prominent Ghaznavid vizier Ahmad Shirazi, who was the son of Abu Tahir Shirazi, a secretary under the Samanids, whose family was originally from

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in southern Iran. Nasrallah later became a secretary at the Ghaznavid court, and also became a poet.

Kalila wa Dimna

Between 1143 and 1146, Nasrallah translated the

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translated Indian fable story '' Kalila wa Dimna'' to Persian, and dedicated it to Sultan Bahram-Shah. During the reign of the Bahram-Shah's grandson, the last Ghaznavid Sultan Khusrau Malik, Nasrallah was appointed as his vizier, but later fell into disfavor and was imprisoned, and then executed.

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