¹ I.P. Petrushevsky, “Vnutrennyaya politika Akhmeda Ak-Koĭunlu” [The Domestic Policy of the Aqquyunlu Aḥmad], in Sbornik stateĭ po istorii Azerbaĭdzhana [Collected Essays on the History of Azerbaijan] (Baku: Akademiia Nauk Azerbaĭdzhanskoĭ SSR, 1949): 144–152, at 148. For a similar assessment, see J. Aubin, “L'Avènement des Safavides réconsideré (Études safavides. III.),” Moyen Orient & Océan Indien XVIe-XIXe s. 5 (1988): 1–130, at 1.

² Budaq Qazvini, Javāhir al-akhbār (tārīkh-i ṣafaviyya az āghāz tā sāl-i 984 h.q.), ed. M.R. Naṣīrī and K. Haneda (Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1999), 51–52.

³ S.A. Quinn, “Notes on Timurid Legitimacy in Three Safavid Chronicles,” Iranian Studies 31, no. 2 (1998): 149–158.

⁴ Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī, Żafarnāmah, ed. S.M. Muḥammad-Ṣādiq and ʿA.-Ḥ. Navāʾī (Tehran: Kitābkhānah, Mūzah, va Markaz-i Asnād-i Majlis-i Shawrā-yi Islāmī, 1387/2009), 246. In the late 1630s, a poet from Khurasan, residing in Mughal India, claimed that during one of his journeys to the Shiʿi holy cities in Iraq, he had come across a copy of Timur's memoirs, titled Malfūżāt-i Ṣāhib-Qirānī, in Turkish, in the private library of an Ottoman official. Based on that text, the same poet compiled Tuzūkāt-i Tīmūrī, Tīmūr's memoirs, and presented it to Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658). See Abū Ṭālib Ḥusaynī Turbatī, Tuzūkāt-i Taymūrī, ed. and tr. J. White and W. Davy (Oxford, 1773; reprint, Tehran, 1342/1963).

⁵ Majlis Library ms. 3455. I have access to a scanned copy of this manuscript, although the page order is incorrect. Nevertheless, the manuscript does contain the complete text of Shah Ṭahmāsp's memoirs.