Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi was a 15th-century Persian

Persian people

The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...

 historian.
Little about his early life is known. As a young man he was a teacher in his native Yazd

Yazd

Yazd is the capital of Yazd Province in Iran, and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located some 175 miles southeast of Isfahan. At the 2006 census, the population was 423,006, in 114,716 families....

 and a close companion of the Timurid

Timurid Dynasty

The Timurids , self-designated Gurkānī , were a Persianate, Central Asian Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turko-Mongol descent whose empire included the whole of Iran, modern Afghanistan, and modern Uzbekistan, as well as large parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the...

 ruler Shah Rukh

Shah Rukh (Timurid dynasty)

Shāhrukh Mīrzā was the ruler of the eastern portion of the empire established by the Central Asian warlord Timur - the founder of the Timurid dynasty - governing most of Persia and Transoxiana between 1405 and 1447...

 (1405–47) and his son Mirza Ibrahim Sultan. In 1442/43 he became the close adviser of the governor of Iraq

Iraq

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, Mirza Sultan Muhammad, who lived in the city of Qom

Qom

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.

Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi if the author of the Persian Zafar-Nama

Zafar-Nama

Zafarnama , written by 15th-century Persian historian Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi, is a book in Persian dedicated to the History of Timurid dynasty completed in 1425. It is considered also a biography of Amir Timur....

, translated by Peter de la Croix in 1722, and from French

French language

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 into English

English language

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by J. Darby in the following year.

Source

• Encyclopædia Britannica