Shams al-Din Kashani

Type Figure Region Persia Time 1301–1318 Also known as Shams al-Din Kashani、Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Ali Kashani、Shams Kashani、沙姆斯·卡什

Shams al-Din Kashani was an early 14th-century Ilkhanid court poet and historical writer active under Ghazan and Öljaitü;…

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1301–1310Tabriz · East AzerbaijanBetween 1301 and 1310 Shams al-Din Kashani continued compiling and revising the Shahnameh-ye Chengizi under Öljaitü. Based on the Jami' al-Tawarikh, the work recast Mongol and Ilkhanid history as a Persian epic, emphasizing Iranian political and cultural traditions and adopting a relatively triumphalist Iranian-centered narrative of events such as the fall of Baghdad, reflecting the merger of historiography and literature in the Ilkhanate's Persianization.

A Research on the Life of Shams Kashani and Shahnameh Changizi — Mahmoud Modaberi (2016)
Issues of the Ilkhanate — Manouchehr Mortazavi (1991)