Banākatī, Abū Sulaymān Fakhr al-Dīn Dāwūd b. Muḥammad (d. 730/1330), was a Persian historian and poet of the Īlkhānid period. He himself mentions his laqab Fakhr al-Dīn Banākatī (p. 465). He was born in Banākat, which later became Shāhrukhiyya in Transoxania (Aḥmadī, 567–568; Elliot, 3/55), and was raised in a scholarly family. His father Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Banākatī, who was known as a religious scholar (Ṣafā, 3(2)/1266), was the author of Kitāb al-maysūr, a commentary on Maṣābīḥ by Abū Muḥammad al-Baghawī and Miṣbāḥ al-ḍamīr min Ṣiḥāḥ al-tafsīr by Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Banāk…