DĪVĀNBEGĪ i. The Timurid period. ii. The Safavid period.   i. THE TIMURID PERIOD Dīvānbegī was the designation for the…

GONĀBĀDI (or Jonābādi), ʿEMĀD-AL-DIN MOḤAMMAD b. Zayn-al-ʿĀbedin b. Neẓām-al-Din Moḥammad (b. 19 Šawwāl 817/2 January 1415), Timurid financial officer and…

GĀZORGĀHĪ, MĪR KAMĀL-AL-DĪN ḤOSAYN, b. Šeḥāb-al-Dīn Esmāʿīl Ṭabasī (b.874/1469-70), a Timurid ṣadr and author of a collection of biographies of…