Maria Eva Subtelny
- DARVĪŠ ʿALĪ, AMĪR NEẒĀM-AL-DĪN KüKäLTĀŠ KETĀBDĀR
DARVĪŠ ʿALĪ, AMĪR NEẒĀM-AL-DĪN KüKäLTĀŠ KETĀBDĀR, Timurid amir under Solṭān-Ḥosayn Bāyqarā (q.v., Supplement; 873-911/1469-1506) and younger brother of ʿAlī-Šīr Navāʾī…
- DARVĪŠ AḤMAD QĀBEŻ
DARVĪŠ AḤMAD QĀBEŻ (d. 912/1507), Timurid vizier. From the position of a lowly functionary charged with the task of writing…
- BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN
BADĪʿ-AL-ZAMĀN B. ḤOSAYN BĀYQARĀ, Timurid prince (mīrzā) of the line of ʿOmar Šayḵ. He was the eldest son of Sultan…
- BĀBOR, ABUʾL-QĀSEM MĪRZĀ
BĀBOR, ABUʾL-QĀSEM MĪRZĀ B. BĀYSONQOR B. ŠĀHROḴ, Timurid prince (b. 825/1422), the youngest son of Bāysonqor, the eminent Timurid bibliophile…
- ERŠĀD al-ZERĀʿA
ERŠĀDal-ZERĀʿA, a Persian agricultural manual completed in Herat in 921/1515 by Qāsem b. Yūsof Abūnaṣrī, who was previously identified in…
- ʿEMĀD-AL-ESLĀM
ʿEMĀD-AL-ESLĀM b. Moḥammad ʿAtīq-Allāh, Ḵᵛāja, a vizier of the Timurid Sultan Ḥosayn Bāyqarā (r. 875-912/1470-1506; q.v), executed in Herat in…
- ECONOMY vi. IN THE TIMURID PERIOD
ECONOMY vi. IN THE TIMURID PERIOD The Timurid invasions against the Kartid rulers of Khorasan, which began in 783/1381, caused…
- ESFEZĀRĪ, MOʿĪN-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD ZAMČĪ
ESFEZĀRĪ, MOʿĪN-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD ZAMČĪ (or Zamačī) Heravī (ca. 850-915/1446-1510; for his nesba see Storey-Bregel, p. 1045), calligrapher specializing in the…
- KĀŠEFI, KAMĀL-AL-DIN ḤOSAYN WĀʿEẒ
KĀŠEFI, KAMĀL-AL-DIN ḤOSAYN WĀʿEẒ, prolific prose-stylist of the Timurid era, religious scholar, Sufi figure, and influential preacher, known as Mawlānā…
- MAJD-AL-DIN ḴᵛĀFI
MAJD-AL-DIN ḴᵛĀFI, significant political figure (d. Ḏu’l-qaʿda 899/August 1494), active in the administration of the Timurid ruler Solṭān-Ḥosayn Bāyqarā (see HOSAYN BĀYQARĀ; r….
- EḴTĪĀR-AL-DĪN
EḴTĪĀR-AL-DĪN, the citadel of Herat (referred to in the sources as qalʿa, ḥeṣār), located on an elevation adjacent to the…
- ḤĀFEẒ-E ABRU
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…