Iskandar Beg Munshi

Iskandar Beg Munshi (), a.k.a. Iskandar Beg Turkman () ( – c. 1632), was a Persian historian of Turkmen origin of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I. Iskandar Beg began as an accountant in the bureaucracy, but later became a privileged secretary of the Shahs. He wrote one of the greatest works of Persian historiography, "Tārīk̲h̲-i ʿĀlam-ārā-yi ʿAbbāsī" (Alamara-i Abbasi). The work begins with the origins of the Safavids and continues through the reign of Shah Abbas I.
He knew the Azerbaijani language.