ḤASAN BEG RUMLU (b. Qom, 937/1530-31), author of Aḥsan al-tawāriḵ (q.v.) and a cavalryman(qurči) of the Rumlu Turkman tribe of…

KETĀB-E IQĀN (abbrev. KI), a major work of Mirzā Ḥosayn-ʿAli Nuri Bahāʾ-Allāh (d. 1892) in defense of the religious claims…

HISTORIOGRAPHY vi. SAFAVID PERIOD Safavid historiography, although developing unique features of its own, had its origins in the eastern Timurid…

ʿABD-AL-FATTĀḤ FUMĀNI author of the Tārīḵ-e Gīlān, a local history of Gīlān covering the years 923-1038/1517-1628. In 1018-19/1609-10, he was…