Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī

Persian travel writer

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1413

Place of Birth: Herat, Afghanistan

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1482

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Abd-al-Razzaq Samarqandi (Persian: ?????????? ????????? ?? ????? ????????, Kamal-ud-Din Abd-ur-Razzaq ibn Ishaq Samarqandi; 1413–1482) was a Persian Timurid chronicler and Islamic scholar.
He was for a while the ambassador of Shah Rukh, the Timurid dynasty ruler of Persia.
In his role as ambassador he visited Calicut in western India in the early 1440s.
He wrote a narrative of what he saw in Calicut which is valuable as information on Calicut's society and culture.
He is also the producer of a lengthy narrative or chronicle of the history of the Timurid dynasty and its predecessors in Central Asia, but this is not so valuable because it is mostly a compilation of material from earlier written sources that are mostly available from elsewhere in the earlier form.