Khursandi Shirazi

Khursand Shirazi, Mirza ‘Ali Muhammad Hamzawi Shu’la (1853-1928), son of Mahmud Khurram. A poet with nom de plume Shu’la, bearing the titles Amin Khaqan and Abu al-Milla, writing the seven scripts in an elegant hand. Early in life in Tehran, he was the secretary of Mirza ‘Ali Asghar Khan, the Qajar Nasir al-Din Shah’s chancellor. He departed Tehran for India and after a while returned to Shiraz and supported by Hajj ‘Ali Aqa Dhu Riyasatayn, a chief shaykh of the Ni’mat Allahi Order, he established the Mas’udiyya School on modern principles. In his last years, he was the principal of the Shafa’iyya High School. He was divested of his office in his last days by the Education Ministry and the poet composed a complaint in verse and published it in the Pazargad Newspaper.

Asar-afarinan (2/ 323); Danishmandan va Sukhansarayan-i Fars (2/ 431-435).

Khursandi Shirazi, Mirza Isma’il (19^th century), a historian and poet with the nom de plume Khursandi. He was born in Shiraz, though he originally hailed from Kazerun. On pilgrimage to Mashhad, he arrived in Tehran in 1878 and was appointed by the Qajar Muhammad Shah as the royal reciter of the Shahnama and a servant of ‘Abbas Mirza. He was appointed to write the chronicles of Kerman by Mirza Muhammad Taqi Khan Farahani (Amir Kabir) in the early reign of the Qajar Nasir al-Din Shah. He remained in that office for sometime, but was later appointed the Chief Superintendent (Wakil Waza’if) in Isfahan. He lost his sight late in life. His works include his Divan.

Asar-afarinan (2/ 323); Danishmandan va Sukhansarayan-i Fars (2/ 435-438).