Awliya Allah Amuli was a 14th-century historian from

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, who under the patronage of his

Baduspanid The Baduspanids or Badusbanids ( fa, پادوسبانیان, Pâdusbâniân), were a local Iranian dynasty of Tabaristan which ruled over Ruyan/Rustamdar. The dynasty was established in 665, and with 933 years of rule as the longest dynasty in I ...

suzerain Fakhr al-Dawla Shah-Ghazi () wrote the ''Tarikh-i Ruyan''. What little is known of his life is found in this work. At some point in his life, he made a pilgrimage to the

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shrines in

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. Following the murder of the

Bavandid The Bavand dynasty () (also spelled Bavend), or simply the Bavandids, was an Iranian peoples, Iranian dynasty that ruled in parts of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province) in what is now northern Iran from 651 until 1349, alternating betwe ...

ruler

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() and the collapse of his kingdom in 1349, Amuli left his native town for the Baduspanid-ruled

Rustamdar Ruyan ( fa, رویان), later known as Rustamdar (), was the name of a mountainous district that encompassed the western part of Tabaristan/ Mazandaran, a region on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. In Iranian mythology, Ruyan appears as one ...

, where he was allowed refuge by its ruler,

Jalal al-Dawla Iskandar Jalal al-Dawla Iskandar was the ruler (''ustandar'') of the Baduspanids from 1333 to 1360. Under his rule, the kingdom reached its zenith. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Mongol Ilkhanate in 1335, he expanded his rule into the southern Albor ...

().

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