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al-Tughra'i, the vizier

الطغرائي الوزير

c. May 1120 CE · Rabi' I 514 AH

Mu'ayyid al-Din al-Tughra'i — head of the diwan al-insha' for Sultan Muhammad b. Malikshah then his son Mas'ud; taken captive and slaughtered before King Mahmud in Rabi' I 514, past sixty; one of the age's singular men of verse and prose, author of the Lamiyyat al-Ajam 1.

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Roles
Poet · writer
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi

Summary

Al-Tughra'i, head of the diwan al-insha' for Sultan Muhammad b. Malikshah, then attached to his son Mas'ud; taken captive, he was beheaded before King Mahmud in Rabi' I 514, aged over sixty. One of the singular men of the age and bearer of the banner of verse and prose, he authored the Lamiyyat al-'ajam and left a fine diwan. 1

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 521-522
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