Awliya Allah Amuli

Awliya Allah Amuli was a 14th-century historian from Amul, who under the patronage of his Baduspanid suzerain Fakhr al-Dawla Shah-Ghazi ((r. 1360 – 1379)) 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 Alid shrines in Iraq. Following the murder of the Bavandid ruler Hasan II ((r. 1334 – 1349)) and the collapse of his kingdom in 1349, Amuli left his native town for the Baduspanid-ruled Rustamdar, where he was allowed refuge by its ruler, Jalal al-Dawla Iskandar ((r. 1333 – 1360)).