Kioumars Ghereghlou is an independent scholar and the editor of A Chronicle of the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas, a critical edition of a major seventeenth-century Persian chronicle.

[T]he publication of Hayati's Tarikh invites researchers to revisit the fascinating history of the rise of [the Safavid] religious order and its transformation into a militant political movement at the beginning of the sixteenth century. [. . .] Any future scholarly work on the early phase of the period will definitely have to take Qasim Beg Hayati Tabrizi's Tarikh into consideration. We are grateful to Dr. Ghereghlou for making his text available. John E. Woods, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 79.2 (2020).

• Editor’s Preface vii Bibliography xxvii Persian Text 1 General Index 373 Plates 381

Kioumars Ghereghlou is an independent scholar and the editor of A Chronicle of the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas, a critical edition of a major seventeenth-century Persian chronicle.

[T]he publication of Hayati's Tarikh invites researchers to revisit the fascinating history of the rise of [the Safavid] religious order and its transformation into a militant political movement at the beginning of the sixteenth century. [. . .] Any future scholarly work on the early phase of the period will definitely have to take Qasim Beg Hayati Tabrizi's Tarikh into consideration. We are grateful to Dr. Ghereghlou for making his text available. John E. Woods, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 79.2 (2020).

• Editor’s Preface vii Bibliography xxvii Persian Text 1 General Index 373 Plates 381

Kioumars Ghereghlou is an independent scholar and the editor of A Chronicle of the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas, a critical edition of a major seventeenth-century Persian chronicle.

[T]he publication of Hayati's Tarikh invites researchers to revisit the fascinating history of the rise of [the Safavid] religious order and its transformation into a militant political movement at the beginning of the sixteenth century. [. . .] Any future scholarly work on the early phase of the period will definitely have to take Qasim Beg Hayati Tabrizi's Tarikh into consideration. We are grateful to Dr. Ghereghlou for making his text available. John E. Woods, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 79.2 (2020).

• Editor’s Preface vii Bibliography xxvii Persian Text 1 General Index 373 Plates 381