Hafiz-i Abru

Hafiz-i Abru (died 1430), born Abd Allah al-Khwafi in Khorasan, was the leading Persian historian and geographer of the early Timurid court. He studied at Hamadan, joined Timur in the 1380s and accompanied the conqueror's campaigns from Transoxiana and Iran to Syria, gathering eyewitness geographical notes.

After Timur's death he served Shah Rukh at Herat, who in 1414 commissioned his universal history, the Majma al-tawarikh, or Collection of Histories. He also continued Shami's Zafarnama and wrote geographical works on Fars, Kirman and Khurasan, and he died in 1430.