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Saljūqnāma (Qāni‘i )

Author

Qāni‘i

قانعی

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Qāniʿī Ṭūsī, Aḥmad Ibn Maḥmūd

Ahmad b. Mahmud Qani i

احمد بن محمود قانعی

Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad b. Banjīr al-Kāzirūnī al-Qāni‘

قانعى طوسی، احمد بن محمود

ابو الفضل احمد بن بجنیر الکازرونی القانع

Biographical notes

Qāni‘i is known to us largely from his own remarks at the beginning of his Kalīla wa Dimna. He records that he came to Anatolia to join the court of ‘Ala’ al-Din Kayqubad I in 618 AH [1221 CE], and served him and his successor Seljuk sultans, writing qasidas and a shahnama, all now lost. According to Aflākī he read an elegy on Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273’s death, meaning he must have been alive until at least 672 AH [1273 CE]. His sole surviving work is his Kalīla wa Dimna.

Title

Saljūqnāma

سلجوقنامه

Notes

In the preface to his Kalīla wa Dimna, Qāni‘i refers to having written a 30-volume work in praise of the Seljuks; it is not clear if this is identical with the Shāhnāma dedicated to Hülegü, 1217-1265 that Ibn al-Fuwaṭi attributes to him.

Patron: Hülegü, 1217-1265

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Studies

Ibn al-Fuwati, . Majmaʻ al-ādāb fī muʻjam al-alqāb. Edited by Kázim, Muhammad. Tehran: 1995-6.

History

Date of copy

20th. century