Iskandar Beg Munshi

Iskandar Beg Munshi , a.k.a. Iskandar Beg Turkman (c. 1560 - c. 1632) — was a Persian or Turkmen 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 (Alamara-i Abbasi). The work begins with the origins of the Safavids and continues through the reign of Shah Abbas I.