ABDĀL BEG DEDE ḎU’L-QADAR or ṬĀLEŠ (other forms of his name in Safavid sources are DEDE BEG QŪRČĪBĀŠĪ, ABDĀL ʿALĪ…

ABU’L-FATḤ ŠARAFĪ ŠARĪFĪ ḤOSAYNĪ ʿARABŠĀHĪ B. MOḤAMMAD B. MAḴDŪM B. SAYYED ŠARĪF JORJĀNĪ, MĪR, Shiʿite jurist, d. 976/1568-69. He was…

BĀYQARĀ B. ʿOMAR ŠAYḴ (795/1392-93-­826/1422-23?), a Timurid prince and grandson of Tīmūr. Although his age at the time of Tīmūr’s…

BEDLĪSĪ, ŠARAF-AL-DĪN KHAN B. ŠAMS-AL-­DĪN B. ŠARAF BEG (949-1012/1543-1603-04?), chief of the Rūzagī tribe of Kurds, whose traditional center was…

AḤMAD, NEẒĀM-AL-DIN b. Neẓām-al-Din Shaikh Maḥmud, vizier and amir under the Timurids (d. 912/1507). Both his maternal uncle, Ḵᵛāja Šams-al-Din…