Aḥmad ebn Ḥasan Meymandī

…good offices of the minister Aḥmad ebn Ḥasan Meymandī was able to secure the sultan’s acceptance of the poem. Unfortunately, Maḥmūd then consulted certain enemies of the minister as to the poet’s reward. They suggested that Ferdowsī should be given 50,000 dirhams, and even this, they said, was too much,…