COURTS AND COURTIERS
i. In the Median and Achaemenid periods.
ii. In the Parthian and Sasanian periods.
iii. In the Islamic period to the Mongol conquest.
v. Under the Timurid and Turkman dynasties.
viii. In the reign of Reżā Shah Pahlavī.
ix. In the reign of Moḥammad-Reżā Shah. See SUPPLEMENT