A Chronicle of the Early Safavids and the Reign of Shah Isma'il (907-930/1501-1524)

Kioumars Ghereghlou presents an edition, with preface and indexes, of a previously unpublished sixteenth-century Persian chronicle. Written by Qasim Beg Hayati, a court scribe to Shah T ahmasp (r. 1524-76), it covers Safavid history beginning with the early part of the fourteenth century. Main text in Persian, editorial preface in English.