Shahid Beheshti University Journal of History of Literature 2008-7349 14 2 2021 12 22 Estimating the Dates of Fath-Ali Khan Sabā’s Birth and the Composing of Shahanshahnameh Estimating the Dates of Fath-Ali Khan Sabā’s Birth and the Composing of Shahanshahnameh 5 18 102052 10.52547/hlit.2022.222750.1049 FA Reza Zarrinkamar Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Mazandaran, Iran Reza Sattari Associated professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Mazandaran, Iran Journal Article 2021 07 10 Sabā’s Shahnshahnameh as the first historical-literary source of Iran-Russia wars, is one of the works that represent the close relationship between understanding the text and its historical context; in such a way that knowing the exact date of this poem’s composition - which depends on an accurate estimate of the poet’s birth - plays a significant role in understanding the events mentioned in the work. Also, the importance of a primary historical source as Shahanshahnameh is related to the time span between the narration of events, and when incidents actually occurred. Although both Sabā and his masterpiece, Shahanshahnameh, are so prominent, there are not enough crucial details available of the personal and literary life of Fath-Ali Khan Sabā, poet laureate of Fath-Ali Shah’s Court. Among the unknown or erroneous historical facts about Sabā’s life are his date of birth, and the composing time of his notable poem: Shahanshahnameh. In the circumstances that no primary source had mentioned these dates, the subsequent resources have been forced to estimate them, and unfortunately, they have made mistakes in their estimations. In the present study, the data are collected through Research Library Method; the collected data from the written sources was compared and analyzed. The results of this research are that Sabā was born in 1176 AH. He had been composing Shahanshahnameh at the period of 1221 to 1225 AH. and subsequently, he probably had been writing Khodavandnameh from 1226 to 1229 AH. Thus, Shahanshahnameh is the first available text about the first round of Iran-Russia wars. This Poem is the only source that has reported events simultaneously. Sabā’s Shahnshahnameh as the first historical-literary source of Iran-Russia wars, is one of the works that represent the close relationship between understanding the text and its historical context; in such a way that knowing the exact date of this poem’s composition - which depends on an accurate estimate of the poet’s birth - plays a significant role in understanding the events mentioned in the work. Also, the importance of a primary historical source as Shahanshahnameh is related to the time span between the narration of events, and when incidents actually occurred. Although both Sabā and his masterpiece, Shahanshahnameh, are so prominent, there are not enough crucial details available of the personal and literary life of Fath-Ali Khan Sabā, poet laureate of Fath-Ali Shah’s Court. Among the unknown or erroneous historical facts about Sabā’s life are his date of birth, and the composing time of his notable poem: Shahanshahnameh. In the circumstances that no primary source had mentioned these dates, the subsequent resources have been forced to estimate them, and unfortunately, they have made mistakes in their estimations. In the present study, the data are collected through Research Library Method; the collected data from the written sources was compared and analyzed. The results of this research are that Sabā was born in 1176 AH. He had been composing Shahanshahnameh at the period of 1221 to 1225 AH. and subsequently, he probably had been writing Khodavandnameh from 1226 to 1229 AH. Thus, Shahanshahnameh is the first available text about the first round of Iran-Russia wars. This Poem is the only source that has reported events simultaneously.

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