Iskandar Beg Munshi
Iskandar Beg Munshi was an Iranian court scribe and chronicler, who is principally known for his historical book Tarikh-e Alam-ara-ye Abbasi, which focuses on early Safavid history, especially the reign of Shah Abbas I.
Life
Iskandar Beg was born in 1561 or 1562. He belonged to a Turkoman clan which was part of the Qizilbash, a militant Shia group that had helped the Safavids establish their rule. Even though Iskandar Beg came from a Qizilbash family and was affiliated with the military elite of the Safavids, both he and his elder brother Faraj Beg joined the bureaucracy instead. Iskandar Beg served as Mirza Ata-Allah Isfahani's pupil scribe during the later rule of Shah Tahmasp I.Iskandar Beg died in 1633 or 1634.