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

Abstract

Throughout Iran's[1] ancient and long history, the number of people who has become prominent 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 scholars 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). What is clear is that the author of this study, has attempted to find answers to these questions whether these scholar’s beliefs and opinions should be corrected or, on the contrary, should it be rejected? If one assumes that the homology theory of Khawaja Nizam al-Mulk and Amir Alishir performances to be false, is it possible to find a celebrated personality in history whose performance can be regarded similar as Amir Alishir Nava'i? The results of this research which ended up in historical method showed that Amir Alishir don’t have much affinity with Khawaja Nizam al-Mulk’s, nor one should name him Khawaja Nizam al-Mulk al-Thani (The second or another Khawaja Nizam al-Mulk). Rather he should be called Khawaja Rashid al-Din al-Thani (The second or another Khawaja Rashid al-Din).