EV-OḠLĪ (or Īv-ōḡlī), name of a family that served three Safavid kings (ʿAbbās I, Ṣafī, and ʿAbbās II) as ešīk-āqāsī-bāšī…

ʿEMĀD-al-DAWLA, Mīrzā MOḤAMMAD-ṬĀHER WAḤĪD QAZVĪNĪ (ca. 1025-1112/1615-1701), poet and court historiographer (majlesnevīs, wāqeʿanevīs) for nearly three decades (1055-85/1645-74), under Shah…

DICKSON, MARTIN BERNARD (b. Brooklyn, 22 March 1924, d. Princeton, 14 May 1991), Iranist and Central Asianist who specialized in…

DARVĪŠ REŻĀ (d. 1040/1631), a qezelbāš functionary who claimed to be the awaited Mahdī. It is reported in the Safavid chronicles…

JONAYD B. EBRĀHIM B. ḴᵛĀJA ʿALI B. ṢADR-AL-DIN B. ṢAFI-AL-DIN (d. 1460), a patrilineal descendant of Shaikh Ṣafi-al-Din (d. 1334),…