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d. 858 ah (1454 ad). Persia. Poet and historian, a native of the Muzaffarid capital of Yazd. Author of the Zafar-nāma [Book of Victory].Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī served under several Tīmūrid rulers and princes. He was a favourite of Shāh Rukh, who ruled over Persia and Transoxania (1405-47). During his service to the Tīmūrid prince Mīrzā Sultān Muḥammad he became involved in the 1447 rebellion of the prince, which almost cost him his life. After the death of Shāh Rukh he retired to Yazd.His Zafar-nāma on the legendary conqueror Tīmūr (known in the west as Tamerlane 1336-1405) is…

[Ḥāfiz-i Abrū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lutf Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Bihdādīnī] d. 833 ah (1430 ad). Persia. Hāfiz-i Abrū  took part in several campaigns of Shāh Rukh (ruler over Persia and Transoxania between 1405 and 1447), whose service he entered after the death of Tīmūr (known in the west as Tamerlane 1336-1405). He wrote several historical works and also a geographical work in Persian.Hāfiz-i Abrū 's three early historical works were: the Dhayl-i Djāmiʿ al-tawārikh, dealing with the reigns of Uldjaytū and Abū Saʿīd. A continuation of the work of Rashīd al-Dīn (d. 1318 ad); the Dhayl-i Zafar…

late 8th or early 9th century ah (14th-15th century ad). Persia. The first Timurid chronicler and the author of the only known history of Tīmūr composed during the lifetime of this conqueror.Nizām ad-Dīn Shāmī lived in Baghdad when Tīmūr (known in the west as Tamerlane 1336-1405) occupied the city in 795 (1392-93). Tīmūr invited him to his court and instructed him to write the history of his rule and of his victories. He asked for the work to be written clearly, without rhetorical excesses, so that it could be understandable for all reade…