Qazvini, Hamdallah Mostowfi

Qazvini, Hamdallah Mostowfi 

Born in Qazvin, 1281; died c. 1350. Iranian historian and geographer.

An important official under Khan Hulagu, Qazvini served the vizier Rashid al-Din as well. He wrote the Selected History (Ta-rikh-e gozideh, 1330), which contains a history of the Mongol ilkhans and the local Iranian dynasties, biographies of prominent individuals, and a description of the city of Qazvin. He is also the author of the geographical work Delectation of the Heart (Nuzhat al-qulub, 1340), an extremely important source for the economic history and geography of Iran and neighboring countries in the 13th and 14th centuries.

REFERENCES

Bartol’d, V. V. Soch., vol. 3. Pages 51–54, 260–63, and elsewhere. (See index.)
Petrushevskii, I. P., “Kamdallakh Kazvini kak istochnik po sotsial’noekonomicheskoi istorii vostochnogo Zakavkaz’ia.” Izv. AN SSSR, Otd. obshchestvennykh nauk, 1937, no. 4, pp. 873–920.
Storey, C. A. Persian Literature, part 1, fasc. 1. London, 1935. Pages81–84.

I. P. PETRUSHEVSKII