Shehab al-Din Torshizi

Shehab Torshizi, whose real name was Mirza Abdollah, belongs to a notable family of Khorasan and received the title of khan when young. He stays in Iraq and Fars in the time of the Zands, returns to Khorasan; he seeks protection at the court of Timur Shah, according to Iranica, and Shah Mahmud summons him to Herat, according to Hedayat. He ends by renouncing the court for devotion and asceticism under the Sufi masters. He also leaves a Bahram-nama, a Yusof and Zolaykha, and a treatise on astronomy, and dies in 1801 or 1802, the year 1216 of the Hijra.

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