Qom

Qom was a city on the Qom River in central Persia. Its shrine of Fatima Masumeh attracted Shia scholars and pilgrims, and the city had revived modestly under the Ilkhans after its destruction by the Mongols.

Timur sacked Qom in the late fourteenth century. Under the Safavids it had become a leading Shia theological and pilgrimage centre by 1503. The city passed to the Qajars in 1793, and Fath Ali Shah rebuilt Fatima Masumeh's shrine.