Iskandar Beg Munshi
Iskandar Beg Munshi, Iskandar Beg Turkman, was a Persian historian of Turkmen origin of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I. Iskandar Beg began as an accountant in the bureaucracy, but later became a privileged secretary of the Shahs. He wrote one of the greatest works of Persian historiography, Tārīk̲h̲-i ʿĀlam-ārā-yi ʿAbbāsī. The work begins with the origins of the Safavids and continues through the reign of Shah Abbas I.
He knew the Azerbaijani language.
