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Kioumars Ghereghlou presents an edition, with preface and indexes, of a previously unpublished sixteenth-century Persian chronicle.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 ?ayati, 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.