Abd al-Razzaq Beg Donboli
Iranian writer, translator and historian
Abd al-Razzaq Beg Donboli (Persian: عبدالرزاق بیگ دنبلی; 1762/63–1827/28) was an Iranian literary biographer, poet, and historian active during the early Qajar era. He belonged to the Donboli, a Turkic-speaking Kurdish tribe, which played a leading role in the areas of Khoy and Salmas in Azerbaijan, northern Iran.
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Perry, J. R. (1982). "Abd-al-Razzāq Beg". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. I/2: ʿAbd-al-Hamīd–ʿAbd-al-Hamīd. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p.
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