Iskandar Beg Munshi

Iskandar Beg Munshi (1561/1562–1633/1634), whose name means Alexander Beg the Scribe, was an Iranian court chronicler of Safavid Iran. Born into a Turkoman clan of the Qizilbash, he and his elder brother chose the royal bureaucracy over the army.

He trained as a scribe in the later reign of Shah Tahmasp I. He is chiefly remembered for his history, the Tarikh-e Alam-ara-ye Abbasi, which narrates early Safavid rule, above all the reign of Shah Abbas I.