Salman Savaji

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

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]

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