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-[[File:Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi (d.1454) with Muhammad Amuli for whom he wrote poems and riddles, Majalis al-'ushshaq, Shiraz, Iran, c.1560.jpg|thumb|Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi with Muhammad Amuli for whom he wrote poems and riddles. Folio from the ''Majalis al-'ushshaq'' of [[Kamal al-Din Gazurgahi]], created in [[Shiraz]], dated {{circa|1560}}]]
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-'''Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi''' or '''Sharif al-Din Ali’ Yazdi''' ({{lang-fa|شرف الدین علی یزدی}}; died 1454, [[Yazd]]), also known by his pen name Sharaf, was a 15th-century [[Persians|Persian]]<ref>{{EI2|last=Bosworth|first=C.E.|author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|title=S̲h̲araf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/sharaf-al-din-ali-yazdi-SIM_6833?s.num=4&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-2&s.q=timurid|volume=9}}</ref> scholar who authored several works in the arts and sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, enigma, literature such as poetry, and history.  The ''[[Zafarnama (Yazdi biography)|Zafarnama]]'', a life of [[Timur]], is his most famous work.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Monfared|first=Mahdi Farhani|date=2008|title=Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī: Historian and Mathematician|journal=Iranian Studies|volume=41|issue=4|pages=537–547|issn=0021-0862|jstor=25597488|doi=10.1080/00210860802246226|s2cid=144120516 }}</ref>
+'''Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi''' or '''Sharif al-Din Ali’ Yazdi''' ({{langx|fa|شرف الدین علی یزدی}}; died 1454, [[Yazd]]), also known by his pen name Sharaf, was a 15th-century [[Persians|Persian]]<ref>{{EI2|last=Bosworth|first=C.E.|author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|title=S̲h̲araf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/sharaf-al-din-ali-yazdi-SIM_6833?s.num=4&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-2&s.q=timurid|volume=9}}</ref> scholar who authored several works in the arts and sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, enigma, literature such as poetry, and history.  The ''[[Zafarnama (Yazdi biography)|Zafarnama]]'', a life of [[Timur]], is his most famous work.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Monfared|first=Mahdi Farhani|date=2008|title=Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī: Historian and Mathematician|journal=Iranian Studies|volume=41|issue=4|pages=537–547|issn=0021-0862|jstor=25597488|doi=10.1080/00210860802246226|s2cid=144120516 }}</ref>
 Sharif al-Din was born in the city of [[Yazd|Yazd, Iran]] in the 1370s. He devoted much of his life to scholarship, furthering his education in Syria and Egypt until Timur's death in 1405.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sharaf Al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (ca. 770s–858/ca. 1370s–1454): Prophecy, Politics, and Historiography in Late Medieval Islamic History|last=Binbas|first=Ilker Evrim|publisher=The University of Chicago|year=2009|pages=1, 19}}</ref>

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{{Short description|15th-century Persian scholar}}
[[File:Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi (d.1454) with Muhammad Amuli for whom he wrote poems and riddles, Majalis al-'ushshaq, Shiraz, Iran, c.1560.jpg|thumb|Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi with Muhammad Amuli for whom he wrote poems and riddles. Folio from the ''Majalis al-'ushshaq'' of [[Kamal al-Din Gazurgahi]], created in [[Shiraz]], dated {{circa|1560}}]]

'''Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi''' or '''Sharif al-Din Ali’ Yazdi''' ({{lang-fa|شرف الدین علی یزدی}}; died 1454, [[Yazd]]), also known by his pen name Sharaf, was a 15th-century [[Persians|Persian]]<ref>{{EI2|last=Bosworth|first=C.E.|author-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|title=S̲h̲araf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/sharaf-al-din-ali-yazdi-SIM_6833?s.num=4&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-2&s.q=timurid|volume=9}}</ref> scholar who authored several works in the arts and sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, enigma, literature such as poetry, and history. The ''[[Zafarnama (Yazdi biography)|Zafarnama]]'', a life of [[Timur]], is his most famous work.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Monfared|first=Mahdi Farhani|date=2008|title=Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī: Historian and Mathematician|journal=Iranian Studies|volume=41|issue=4|pages=537–547|issn=0021-0862|jstor=25597488|doi=10.1080/00210860802246226|s2cid=144120516 }}</ref>

Sharif al-Din was born in the city of [[Yazd|Yazd, Iran]] in the 1370s. He devoted much of his life to scholarship, furthering his education in Syria and Egypt until Timur's death in 1405.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sharaf Al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (ca. 770s–858/ca. 1370s–1454): Prophecy, Politics, and Historiography in Late Medieval Islamic History|last=Binbas|first=Ilker Evrim|publisher=The University of Chicago|year=2009|pages=1, 19}}</ref>

As a young man, he was a teacher in his native city of Yazd and a close companion of the [[Timurid dynasty|Timurid]] ruler [[Shahrukh Mirza|Shahrukh]] (1405–47) and his son [[Ibrahim Sultan ibn Shahrukh|Ibrahim Sultan]]. In 1442/43 he became the close advisor of the governor of [[Iraq]], [[Mirza Sultan Muhammad]], who lived in the city of [[Qom]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Sharaf ad-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī (Persian historian) |url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Sharaf-ad-Din-Ali-Yazdi |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online}}</ref>

Sharif al-Din rebelled against [[Shah Rukh|Shahrukh Timur]] in 1446/47 when the government was vulnerable, but was later sent to different cities for his acumen. The later years of his life were spent in [[Taft, Iran|Taft]], where he died in 1454.<ref name=":1" />

Sharif al-Din was directed to write a biography of Timur in 1421 known as the ''Zafarnama'', which he completed four years later in 1425. Timur's grandson [[Ibrahim Mirza bin Ala-ud-Daulah|Sultan Abu al-Fath Ibrahim Mirza]] was Sharif al-Din's patron during the completion of his grandfather's biography.<ref name=":1" />

==Translated works==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=W0JrON1y42IC The History of Timur-Bec: Known by the Name of Tamerlain the Great, Emperor of the Moguls and Tartars: Being an Historical Journal of His Conquests in Asia and Europe, Volume 2 (1723)]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite journal |last=Monfared|first=Mahdi Farhani |date=2008 |title=Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī: Historian and Mathematician |journal=Iranian Studies |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=537–547 |doi=10.1080/00210860802246226 |s2cid=144120516 }}
*{{cite journal |last=Binbaş|first=İlker Evrim |date=2012 |title=The Histories of Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi: A Formal Analysis |journal=Acta Orientalia |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=391–417 |doi=10.1556/AOrient.65.2012.4.1 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2256806}}
* {{citation|last=Binbaş|first=İlker Evrim|title=Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī and the Islamicate Republic of Letters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LsHgCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA212|year=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-05424-0}}

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