MOʿIN-AL-DIN NAṬANZI, early 15th-century historian, author of the Montaḵab al-tavāriḵ, a general chronicle on dynastic history of Iran in the…

ŠABĀNKĀRAʾI, MOḤAMMAD b. ʿAli  (d. after 1343), Persian chronicler, panegyrist, and the author of Majmaʿ al-ansāb fi’l-tawāriḵ, a general history, from the earliest time…

AUBIN, JEAN (b. Ligugé, 2 January 1927; d. Jumelles, 17 January 1998; Figure 1), prominent French historian of pre-modern Iran,…

BALYĀNI, AMIN-AL-DIN, famous mystic of Kazerun (d. 11 Ḏo’l-Qaʿda 745/16 March 1345). Amin-al-Din Moḥammad b. ʿAli b. Masʿud was a…

SARBEDĀRS (lit. “Head givers”), a religious movement in northern Khorāsān and eastern Māzandarān that led to the establishment of a…