Iskandar Beg Munshi
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Who is Iskandar Beg Munshi?
Iskandar Beg Munshi — was a Safavid historian, the court historian of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I. Iskandar Beg began as an accountant in the bureaucracy, but later became a privileged secretary of the Shahs. He wrote one of the greatest works of Persian historiography, Tārīk̲h̲-i ʿĀlam-ārā-yi ʿAbbāsī. The work begins with the origins of the Safavids and continues through the reign of Shah Abbas I.
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