Fazl b. Ruzbihan Khunji

Khwaja Afzal al-Din Fazl Allah b. Jamal al-Din Ruzbihan b. Fazl Allah b. Muhammad Khunji Isfahani (Persian: خواجه افضل‌الدین فضل‌الله بن جمال‌الدین روزبهان بن فضل‌الله بن محمد خنجی اصفهانی‎‎; 1455-1521), better known as Fazlallah Khunji Isfahani (فضل الله خنجی اصفهانی), was a Persian religious scholar, historian and political writer. He was born in Shiraz. In 1487, he left Shiraz for the third time for a Hajj. He met Sultan Ya'qub of Aq Qoyunlu near the Sahand mountain and agreed to write the history of Aq Qoyunlu dynasty. When the Safavid shah Ismail I started the Shi'ification of Persia and the persecution of Sunni Muslims, he fled to Transoxiana and settled in the city of Qazan. He lived the rest of his life in Transoxiana under the patronage of Timurids and Shaybanids. Modern scholars praise him for his neutrality.

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