Salman Savaji

Salman Savaji (died 1376) was a Persian^[1] poet, who served as a court poet of the 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]

Manuscript of Salman Savaji's divan, copy created in Safavid Iran, dated 16th century with later additions

References

1. Khafipour 2019, p. 503 (see note 26).
2. Wing 2016, p. 15.
3. Wing 2016, p. 136.
4. Wing 2016, p. 137.

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.