JĀMEʿ AL-TAWĀRIḴ i. The work JĀMEʿ AL-TAWĀRIḴ (The Compendium of chronicles), the historical work composed in the period 1300-10 by…

EBN AL-ṬEQṬAQĀ, ṢAFĪ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAlī b. Ṭabāṭabā, historian and naqīb of the ʿAlids in Ḥella (b. 660/1262 ?; d….

EBN AL-FOWAṬĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ʿABD-AL-RAZZĀQ b. Aḥmad, librarian and historian (b. 642/1244; d. Baghdad, 723/1323). His family originated in Marv-al-Rūd in…

EBN ESFANDĪĀR, BAHĀʾ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD b. Ḥasan, historian, probably from Āmol, who flourished around the turn of the 7th/13th century. He…

DOKUZ (DOQUZ) ḴĀTŪN (d. 29 Šaʿbān 663/16 June 1265), chief wife of the Il-khan Hülegü (Hūlāgū; 654-63/1256-65) and granddaughter of…

DEMAŠQ ḴᵛĀJA, third son of the amir Čobān (q.v.), possibly born in 699/1300, when his father was on campaign in…

DELŠĀDḴĀTŪN, eldest daughter of the Chobanid Demašq Ḵᵛāja (q.v.) and Tūrsīn Ḵātūn, granddaughter of the Il-khanid sultan Aḥmad Takūdār (q.v.;…

ČOBĀN (Čūpān, Ar. Jūbān; ca. 660-727/1262-­1327), eponymous founder of the Chobanid dynasty and the leading Mongol amir of the late Il-khanid…

CHOBANIDS (Chupanids, Pers. Čūpānīān), a fam­ily of Mongol origin descended from the amir Čobān (or Čūpān, Ar. Jūbān) Noyan. Its…

BOLOḠĀN (Būlūḡān) ḴĀTŪN, the name of three of the royal wives of the Mongol Il-khans in Iran. Of Mongol origin,…

JĀRČI, a public crier, announcer or herald, derived from the Mongol jar (proclamation, announcement) and certainly also related to the…

JĀMEʿ AL-TAWĀRIḴ (The Compendium of chronicles), the historical work composed in the period 1300-10 by Ḵᵛāja Rašid-al-Din Fażl-Allāh Ṭabib Hamadāni,…

JAHĀN TIMÜR (TEMÜR), son of Alafrank (q.v.) son of Gaikhatu Khan (q.v.). A phantom Il-khan, previously known as ʿEzz-al-Din, Jahān…

JAHĀNGOŠĀ-YE JOVAYNI, TĀRIḴ-E, the title of the history of the Mongols composed during the years 650-58/1252-60 (Qazvini’s introd., pp. fd-fh)…

HISTORIOGRAPHY iv. MONGOL PERIOD Persian historiography reached its maturity during the period of the 13th-15th centuries, which might broadly be…

ḤAMD-ALLĀH MOSTAWFI, historian and geographer of the Ilkhanid period (b. Qazvin, ca. 680/1281, d. ca. 744/1344). There is some disagreement…

ḤĀFEẒ-E ABRU, Timurid historian known by this laqab, whose full name was ʿAbd-Allāh (or Nur-Allāh) b. Loṭf-Allāh b. ʿAbd-al-Rašid Behdādini…

GREAT BRITAIN ix. IRANIAN STUDIES IN BRITAIN: ISLAMIC PERIOD British interest in, and scholarship on, Persia and Persian culture in…

ḠĪĀṮ-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD (d. 736/1336), Il-khanid vizier, the son of Rašīd-al-Dīn Fażl-Allāh Hamadānī (executed 718/1318), the celebrated historian and vizier of…

ḠĀZĀN-NĀMA, a verse chronicle of the reign of the Il-khan Ḡāzān Khan (694-703/1295-1304), by Ḵᵛāja Nūr-al-Dīn b. Šams-al-Dīn Moḥammad Aždarī….

FLOODS (sayl, sayl-āb) in Persia. i. Geographical Survey. ii. Historical Survey.   i. GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY A common saying holds that…

AFŻAL AL-TAWĀRIḴ, title of a chronicle of the Safavid dynasty, composed by Fażli b. Zayn-al-ʿĀbedin b. Ḵᵛāja Ruḥ-Allāh Ḵuzāni Eṣfahāni…