Abd al-Razzaq Samarqandi
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title:
Abd al-Razzaq Samarqandi
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Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī was a Persian Timurid chronicler and Islamic scholar. He was for a while the ambassador of Shah Rukh, the Timurid dynasty ruler of Persia. In his role as ambassador he visited Kozhikode in south India in the early 1440s. He wrote a narrative of what he saw in Calicut which is valuable as information on Calicut's society and culture. He is also the producer of a lengthy narrative or chronicle of the history of the Timurid dynasty and its predecessors in Central Asia, but
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Persian Timurid islamic scholar, diplomat and historian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Razzaq_Samarqandi
date created:
2006-10-21T19:43:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T16:28:10Z
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