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Ẓafarnāmah (Book of victory) by Sharaf al-Din ʿAli Yazdi (circa 1390–1454) is a biographical work dealing with the life of the central Asian conqueror Timur (reigned 1370–1405). Completed in around 1424, Yazdi’s work is based in part on an earlier work, also entitled Ẓafarnāmah, by Nizam al-Din ʿAli Shami (who completed his work in 1404). A poet and scholar, Yazdi wrote works on numerology, astrolabes, and a variety of other topics, and he was renowned for his knowledge of ʿūlūm-i gharība (the esoteric sciences). He was summoned ...