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 1 Pre    |       On Abu Said's death, Abu Ishac, one of the three sons of
 2 Pre    |  obedient to neither lord.~Abu Ishac had not steered his bark
 3 Pre    |      laid siege to Shiraz. Abu Ishac, whose life was one of perpetual
 4 Pre    | Mahommad ibn Muzaffar, and Abu Ishac was obliged to seek refuge
 5 Pre    | description of its ruler: "Abu Ishac," says he, "is one of the
 6 Pre    |     two towns tallies with Abu Ishac's subsequent history, and
 7 Pre    |    would seem to show that Abu Ishac was not unpopular even in
 8 Pre    |     with spades of silver. Abu Ishac shared the passion of the
 9 Pre    |    historian who describes Abu Ishac's execution, quotes a quatrain
10 Pre    |     rose into high repute. Abu Ishac was his first patron. "By
11 Pre    |     long poem addressed to Abu Ishac, in which he is called the
12 Pre    |        been in Shiraz when Abu Ishac was brought thither, a prisoner,
13 Pre    |     From the protection of Abu Ishac, Hafiz passed into that
14 Pre    |     loyalty of one to whom Abu Ishac had been so good a patron;
15 Pre    |        that of the hapless Abu Ishac, and the King was not averse
16 Pre    |        I would submit that Abu Ishac, Shah Shudja, and Shah Mansur
17 XXIV(*)|     Shudja's former rival, Abu Ishac. Accordingly the King looked