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Hamdallah Mustawfi, the Glossary

Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini (Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī; 1281 – after 1339/40) was a Persian official, historian, geographer and poet.^[1]

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1281 births
14th-century Iranian historians
14th-century Persian-language poets
14th-century geographers
Burials in Iran
Geographers of the medieval Islamic world
Historians from the Ilkhanate
Iranian people of Arab descent
Medieval Iranian geographers
Officials of the Ilkhanate

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abhar

Abhar (ابهر) is a city in the Central District of Abhar County, Zanjan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (June 2, 1305 – December 1, 1335; ابو سعید بهادر خان), also spelled Abusaid Bahador Khan, Abu Sa'id Behauder (Modern Абу Саид Бахадур хан, Abu sayid Baghatur Khan, in modern Mongolian), was the ninth ruler (c. 1316 – 1335) of the Ilkhanate, a division of the Mongol Empire that encompassed the present day countries of Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia, as well as parts of Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi (ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Arran (Caucasus)

Arran (Middle Persian form; Persian: اران or اردان), also known as Aran or Ardan, was a geographical name used in ancient and medieval times to signify a historically-Iranian region which lay within the triangle of land, lowland in the east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of the Kura and Aras rivers, including the highland and lowland Karabakh, Mil plain and parts of the Mughan plain.

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Avaj

Avaj (آوج) is a city in the Central District of Avaj County, Qazvin province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Öljaitü

Öljaitü, also known as Mohammad-e Khodabande (24 March 1282 – 16 December 1316), was the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler from 1304 to 1316 in Tabriz, Iran.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Byzantium

Byzantium or Byzantion (Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Thracian settlement and later a Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and which is known as Istanbul today.

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Calque

In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.

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Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.

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Charles P. Melville

Charles P. Melville (born 10 May 1951) is a British academic who has been Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge since 2008.

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Chobanids

The Chobanids or the Chupanids (سلسله امرای چوپانی) were descendants of a Mongol family of the Suldus clan that came to prominence in 14th century Persia.

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Divan

A divan or diwan (دیوان, dīvān; from Sumerian dub, clay tablet) was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official (see dewan).

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Diyar Rabi'a

Diyar Rabi'a (Rabi'a) is the medieval Arabic name of the easternmost and largest of the three provinces of the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia), the other two being Diyar Bakr and Diyar Mudar.

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Emir

Emir (أمير, also transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or ceremonial authority. The title has a long history of use in the Arab World, East Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

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Fakhr al-Din Mustawfi

Fakhr al-Din Mustawfi (died 1290) was a Persian statesman from the Mustawfi family of Qazvin, who lived during the early Ilkhanate era. Hamdallah Mustawfi and Fakhr al-Din Mustawfi are officials of the Ilkhanate and people from Qazvin.

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Fars province

Fars province (استان فارس) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Ferdowsi

Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (ابوالقاسمفردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (فردوسی), was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian-speaking countries.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Ghazan

Mahmud Ghazan (5 November 1271 – 11 May 1304) (Ghazan Khan, sometimes archaically spelled as Casanus by Westerners) was the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304.

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Ghaznavids

The Ghaznavid dynasty (غزنویان Ġaznaviyān) or the Ghaznavid Empire was a Persianate Muslim dynasty and empire of Turkic mamluk origin, ruling at its greatest extent from the Oxus to the Indus Valley from 977 to 1186.

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Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (vizier)

Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad ibn Rashid al-Din Fadlallah (died 1336) was a Persian bureaucrat under the Ilkhanate, who served as the vizier of the last Ilkhan, Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan from 1327 to 1335.

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Gilan province

Gilan province (استان گیلان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country.

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Hafiz-i Abru

Hafez-e AbruMaria Eva Subtelny and Charles Melville, (حافظ ابرو; died June 1430) was a Persian historian working at the courts of Timurid rulers of Central Asia. Hamdallah Mustawfi and Hafiz-i Abru are 14th-century Iranian historians.

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Hasan Buzurg

Shaikh Hasan, also known as "Hasan Buzurg" ("Hasan The Great"), Hassan the Jalair or Hassan-e Uljatâï was the first of several de facto independent Jalayirid rulers of Iraq and central Iran.

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Hasan Kuchak

Hasan Kuchak or Ḥasan-i Kūchik (1319 – 15 December 1343) was a Chupanid prince during the 14th century.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.

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Ibn Khordadbeh

Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (ابوالقاسمعبیدالله ابن خرداذبه; 820/825–913), commonly known as Ibn Khordadbeh (also spelled Ibn Khurradadhbih; ابن خرددة), was a high-ranking bureaucrat and geographer of Persian descent in the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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Injuids

The Injuids (also Injus or House of Inju) were an Iranian dynasty of Persian origin that came to rule over the cities of Shiraz and Isfahan during the 14th century.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iranian studies

Iranian studies (ايران‌شناسی), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples.

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Isfahan

Isfahan or Esfahan (اصفهان) is a major city in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan province, Iran.

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Jalayirid Sultanate

The Jalayirid Sultanate was a dynasty of Mongol Jalayir origin, which ruled over modern-day Iraq and western Iran after the breakup of the Mongol khanate of Persia in the 1330s.

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Juvayni family

The Juvayni family was a Persian family native to the Juvayn area in Khorasan.

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Kashan

Kashan (کاشان) is a city in the Central District of Kashan County, in the northern part of Isfahan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Kerman province

Kerman Province (استان کرمان) is the largest of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Khutbah

Khutbah (خطبة, khuṭbah; خطبه, khotbeh; hutbe) serves as the primary formal occasion for public preaching in the Islamic tradition.

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Khuzestan province

Khuzestan Province (استان خوزستان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Khwarazm

Khwarazm (Hwârazmiya; خوارزم, Xwârazm or Xârazm) or Chorasmia is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the east by the Kyzylkum Desert, on the south by the Karakum Desert, and on the west by the Ustyurt Plateau.

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Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)

Armenia, also the Kingdom of Greater Armenia, or simply Greater Armenia or Armenia Major (Մեծ Հայք; Armenia Maior) sometimes referred to as the Armenian Empire, was a kingdom in the Ancient Near East which existed from 331 BC to 428 AD.

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Kurdistan province

Kurdistan Province (استان کردستان) is one of 31 provinces of Iran.

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Lower Mesopotamia

Lower Mesopotamia is a historical region of Mesopotamia.

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Madhhab

A madhhab (way to act,, pl. label) refers to any school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence.

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Makran

Makran (مكران), also mentioned in some sources as Mecran and Mokrān, is the southern coastal region of Balochistan.

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Mazandaran province

Mazandaran Province (استان مازندران) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Middle Persian

Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.

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Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.

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Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire

Between 1219 and 1221, the Mongol forces under Genghis Khan invaded the lands of the Khwarazmian Empire in Central Asia.

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Mughan plain

Mughan plain (Muğan düzü, مغان دوزو) is a plain stretching from northwestern Iran to the southern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Nimruz Province

Nimruz or Nimroz (Balochi:; Dari, Pashto) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southwestern part of the country.

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Nuzhat al-Qulub

The Nuzhat al-Qulub (also spelled Nozhat al-Qolub; italic) is a Persian-language geographical treatise written in the 1340s by Hamdallah Mustawfi.

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Ormus

The Kingdom of Ormus (also known as Hormoz or Hormuz; هرمز; Ormuz) was located in the eastern side of the Persian Gulf and extended as far as Bahrain in the west at its zenith.

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Persian Iraq

Persian Iraq, also uncommonly spelled Persian Irak (عراقِ عجمErāq-e Ajam or عراق عجمی Erāq-e Ajami; عراق العجمʿIrāq al-ʿAjam or العراق العجمي al-ʿIrāq al-ʿAjamī, literally, "Iraq of the Ajam"), is a historical region of the western parts of Iran.

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Persians

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.

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Qazvin

Qazvin (قزوین) is a city in the Central District of Qazvin County, Qazvin province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.

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Qumis (region)

Qūmis (قومس, from Kōmis / Kōmiš; Kōmisēnē; Komsh), was a province in pre-Islamic Persia, lying between the southern Alborz chain watershed and the northern fringes of the Dasht-e Kavir.

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Rafida

(translit) refers to those Shia Muslims who 'reject' the legitimacy of the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman, in favor of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Rashid al-Din Hamadani

Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (رشیدالدین طبیب;&lrm; 1247–1318; also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī, رشیدالدین فضل‌الله همدانی) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilkhanate Iran. Hamdallah Mustawfi and Rashid al-Din Hamadani are 14th-century Iranian historians and historians from the Ilkhanate.

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Safavid Iran

Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire,, officially known as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.

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Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.

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Saveh

Saveh (ساوه) is a city in the Central District of Saveh County, Markazi province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

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Shafi'i school

The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.

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Shahnameh

The Shahnameh (lit), also transliterated Shahnama, is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Shiraz

Shiraz (شیراز) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars and Persis.

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Shirvan

Shirvan (from translit; Şirvan; Tat: Şirvan) is a historical region in the eastern Caucasus, as known in both pre-Islamic Sasanian and Islamic times.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Syria (region)

Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: Sura/i; Συρία; ܣܘܪܝܐ) or Sham (Ash-Shām) is a historical region located east of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia, broadly synonymous with the Levant.

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Tabaristan

Tabaristan or Tabarestan (Ṭabarestān, or Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian:, Tapur(i)stān), was a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran.

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Tabriz

Tabriz (تبریز) is a city in the Central District of Tabriz County, in the East Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran.

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Tarikh-i guzida

The Tarikh-i guzida (also spelled Tarikh-e Gozideh (تاریخ گزیده, "Excerpt history"), is a compendium of Islamic history from the creation of the world until 1329, written by Hamdallah Mustawfi and finished in 1330.E.J. Brill's first Encyclopedia of Islam, 1913-1936, ed. M. Th.

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Timurid Empire

The Timurid Empire was a late medieval, culturally Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India and Turkey.

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Tomb of Hamdallah Mustawfi

The Tomb of Hamdallah Mustawfi (Persian: آرامگاه حمدالله مستوفی) is a 14th century mausoleum in Qazvin, Iran.

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Transoxiana

Transoxiana or Transoxania is the Latin name for the region and civilization located in lower Central Asia roughly corresponding to modern-day eastern Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, parts of southern Kazakhstan, parts of Turkmenistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdallah_Mustawfi

Also known as Hamd-Allah Mustawfi, Hamd-Allah Mustawfi of Qazvin, Hamd-Allah Mustawfi of Qazwin, Hamdollah Mostowfi, Hamdullah Mostowfi Qazvini, Hamdullah al-Mustawfi al-Qazwini, .

, Mazandaran province, Middle Persian, Mongol Empire, Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire, Mughan plain, Nimruz Province, Nuzhat al-Qulub, Ormus, Persian Iraq, Persians, Qazvin, Qumis (region), Rafida, Rashid al-Din Hamadani, Safavid Iran, Sasanian Empire, Saveh, Shafi'i school, Shahnameh, Shia Islam, Shiraz, Shirvan, Sunni Islam, Syria (region), Tabaristan, Tabriz, Tarikh-i guzida, Timurid Empire, Tomb of Hamdallah Mustawfi, Transoxiana, Twelve Imams, Vizier, World history (field), Zafarnamah (Mustawfi), Zanjan, Iran.

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1281 births

14th-century Iranian historians

14th-century Persian-language poets

14th-century geographers

Burials in Iran

Geographers of the medieval Islamic world

Historians from the Ilkhanate

Iranian people of Arab descent

Medieval Iranian geographers

Officials of the Ilkhanate

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