Hamdollah Mostowfi
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Persian people
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historian
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, geographer
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and epic poet.
Mostowfi is the author of Nozhat ol-Gholub (نزهه القلوب), Zafar-Nameh
Zafar-Nameh
Zafar-Nameh, Zafar-Nameh, Zafar-Nameh, (Persian ظفرنامه, Zafar-nāmé, the Book of Victory is an epic poem written by the Persian poet Hamdollah Mostowfi (d. 1334). The epic history, compiled in 75,000 couplets, explores Iranian history from the Arab conquest to the Mongols....
(ظفرنامه), and the Tarikh e Gozideh
Tarikh-i guzida
The Tarikh-i guzida or Tarikh e Gozideh, is a compendium of Islamic history from the creation of the world until 1329, written by Hamdallah Qazvini and finished in 1330...
(تاريخ گزيده). His tomb is a structure with a blue turquoise conical dome, at Qazvin.