Ghiyāth al-Dīn Naqqāsh (fl. 825/1422) was a courtier and an official diarist for the embassy of Shāhrukh, the Tīmūrid ruler of Persia and Transoxania (r. 807–50/1405–47), to the court of the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–24) of China’s Ming dynasty, probably in 823–5/1420–2. While nothing is known of his personal life beyond a conjecture that he was an artist, as indicated by the name Naqqāsh (painter), his day-to-day descriptive account of his embassy provides important information on the contacts betw…