Nasrallah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid Shirazi (Persian:نصرالله بن محمد بن عبدالحمید شیرازی), better known asAbu'l-Mali Nasrallah (ابوالمالی نصرالله), was aPersian^[2] poet and statesman who served as thevizier of theGhaznavidSultanKhusrau Malik.

Nasrallah was born inGhazni; he was the grandson ofAbd al-Hamid Shirazi, a prominentGhaznavid vizier, who himself was the son of the prominent Ghaznavid vizierAhmad Shirazi, who was the son ofAbu Tahir Shirazi, a secretary under theSamanids, whose family was originally fromShiraz insouthern Iran. Nasrallah later became a secretary at the Ghaznavid court, and also became a poet.

Between 1143 and 1146, Nasrallah translated theArabic translated Indian fable storyKalila wa Dimna toPersian,^[3] and dedicated it to SultanBahram-Shah.

During the reign of the Bahram-Shah's grandson, the last Ghaznavid Sultan Khusrau Malik, Nasrallah was appointed as his vizier, but later fell into disfavor and was imprisoned, and then executed.^[4]

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