A COMPARISON: AMIR ALISHIR NAVA’I THE COUNTERPART OF KHAWAJA NIZAM AL-MULK TUSI OR KHAWAJA RASHID AL-DIN FADLULLAH HAMADANI

Abstract

Throughout Iran’s1 ancient and long history, the number of people who has become prom-inent in political and cultural activities is not few. Khawaja Nizam al-Mulk Tusi, a prominent politician and minister (Vizier/Divansalar) of the Seljuq era, Khawaja Rashid al-Din Fadlullah Hamadani, the great man in the realm of politics and culture in the Ilkhanid era and Amir Alishir Nava’i, a politician and a cultured man in the Timurid era, are three renowned personalities who have a high profile from the perspective of scholars in history.In addition, a number of schol-ars by comparing the performance of Khawaja Nizam al-Mulk Tusi and Amir Alishir Nava’i in their researches and studies claimed that Amir Ali Sher can be called Khawaja Nizam al-Mulk al-Thani (The second or another Khawaja Nizam al-Mulk