KĀBOLI, ʿAbdallāh Ḵᵛāja (also known as Kāboli Naqšbandi and Heravi), historiographer and poet of the late 16th and early 17th…

JAWĀHER AL-ʿAJĀYEB, a short, rare kind of taḏkera in Persian containing biographies of female poets and specimens of their verses…

HISTORIOGRAPHY v. TIMURID PERIOD Timurid historiography is firmly rooted within the Persian literary tradition of official court histories of the…

HERAT iv. TOPOGRAPHY AND URBANISM Pre-Mongol period. In the medieval period, Herat, together with Nišāpur, Marv, and Balḵ, was one…

HERAT iii. HISTORY, MEDIEVAL PERIOD Herat at the time of the Arab conquest. When the Arab armies appeared in Khorasan…