pio A General m. 
Grandfon of TimW-^ and the laft of his Race that reigned 
in Perjia, whom they flew in the Year of the Hegira 
Si I, Anno Domini 1408. 
7. By thisVidory Kara Ifuph^ that is^ Jbfeph the Blacky 
who was Chief of the Tribe of Kara Koyunli^ or the 
Black Sheeps fo called from their bearing this Figure in 
their Standards, became Sovereign of Perfia^ which he 
governed fourteen Years^ and died in the Year of the 
Hegira 823, Anno Domini 142 He was fucceeded by 
Amir Scander^ who reigned in "Kauris^ and was all his 
Life long engaged in various Wars with great Diver- 
fity of Fortune, till he was killed by his own Son in the 
fixteenth Year of his Adminiftration. He was fucceed- 
ed by his Brother Joon Shah, who, though one of the 
lewdeft and wickedeft Princes that ever fat upon a 
Throne, extended his Dominions by his Succefs in War, 
and ruled Perfia thirty two Years, till furprized in a 
March againft his Enemies, when drunk and afleep, 
he was cut to Pieces. Flis Succeffor was his Son Haf- 
fan Ali^ the laft of his Family, who being defeated by 
Ozun Acen Beck, who had killed his Father, loft his 
Dominions, which fell under the Power of the Con- 
queror in the Year of the Hegira 872, Anno Domi- 
ni 1467. 
8. This Ozun Acenhek is the fame that in moft of our 
Hiftories is called XJfun Chafan, and was the firft of the 
Family of Ak Kuyonli, or the White Sheep, another 
Tribe of 'Turcomans, who reigned in PerJiaj, he engaged 
in a long War with Sultan Mahonut the Ottoman Em- 
perorj with very bad Succefs ; however, he held the 
Government for eleven Years, and then left it to his 
Son Sultan Kalil, who, after a fhort Reign of fix 
Months, was killed by one of his Brothers.^ He was 
fucceeded by ICacub Beg, another Brother, who was a 
Prince of great Learning and Moderation, and go- 
verned his Dominions for twelve Years with much Le- 
nity and Wifdom, till at length he was taken off by 
Poifon ; and then followed a Scene of Blood-fhed and 
Confufion under a Succeflion of five Princes, either 
Defcendants of or allied to this Family, till Sultan 
Morad, whom fome Eaftern Authors make the Son of 
the laft mentioned Prince was entirely defeated, and 
driven out of Perfia by IJhmael Sefi in the Year of the 
Hegira 914, Anno Domini 1508, and in him ended the 
Line of the White Sheep, which gave Place to that 
Imperial Family, which continued to govern Perfia to 
our Times. 
9. It would take up too much Room for us to enter 
into the Hiftory of this Prince’s Family, which is befides 
fo well known, that it would be needlefs ; we there- 
fore think it fufficient to obferve, that he gave him- 
felf out to be a direcft Defendant from Mortis Ali the 
Son-in-Law of the Prophet Mahomet, and made his 
Way from a private Station to the Empire of Perfia, 
by very high Pretences to Sandity, and letting up for 
a Kind of Prophet himfelf. He it was that introduced 
the new Sed into Perfa, and changed that Sort of 
Men to whom his Father had given Red Caps, as a 
Mark of their being his Difciples, into a regular Mi- 
litia, from thence called Kuzzlehajhes, that is. Red 
Heads, who under his Succeftbrs became the Janiza- 
ries of Perfia. He was certainly a Man of great Parts 
and excenfive Genius, as appears plainly from the 
Manner in which he profecuted his Wars, fharing 
every Thing with his Soldiers till he had made him- 
felf Mafter of the whole Empire of Perfia, and then 
under Pretence of Care for their Intereft, introducing 
thofe Sorts of Military Tenures, which have been be- 
fore defcribed. He preferved, as long as he lived, the 
Confidence and Efteem of his Subjeds, who looked 
upon him as one fjperior to the ordinary Race of Men, 
in Point both of Piety and of Wifdom j to which his 
great Vidories againft the Tartars on one Side, and the 
Turks on the other, contributed not a little y fo that the 
Perftans always confidered him as one, throuo-h the Fa- 
vour of God, invincible. He died at the Age° of Forty- 
five, Anno Domini 1525, in full Poffeffion of one of the 
greateft Empires, and of the Charader of one of the 
ableft Princes in the Eaft. 
He was fucceeded by the ddeft of his four Sons, Shah 
d Condfe Hiftory Book III. 
Toamas, who was then about eighteen Years of Ao-e 
m have very difthrent Charaders of this Prince from 
different Authors, and yet it is not at all impoffiblc 
that they may be true. In Time of Peace he led a 
quiet, lazy, inadive Life, and left Things pretty much 
to his Minifters, which gave an ill ImpreiTion of his 
Capacity ; but when he came to be engaged in a War 
againft the Turkijh Emperor Solyman, he convinced thofe 
who had taken up this Opinion, that they were abfo! 
lately miftaken, for he managed that War with oreat 
forced the Turk to quit his Country,%ot- 
withftanding that he attacked him with very unequal 
Forces, and harrafled him fo much in his Retreat, that 
of five hundred thoufand Men that Solyman brought into 
the Field, he fcarce carried fourfcore Thoufand back 
to Conftantinople. This War enabled Shah Thamas to 
nd himfelf of two of his Brothers ; for one revolting 
to the Turk, he attacked, defeated, and cut him to 
Pieces ; and, fufpeding the other had the like Defio-n 
he cauffcd him to be taken off by Poifon. As to the 
Third, he died a natural Death ; fo that ali the Coun- 
tries, which had been aftigned them by their Father 
were again united to the Empire. This Shah Thamas 
removed the Capital of his Dominions, and inftead of 
the City of Tauris, refided at CasUn. The worft A6fion 
of his Life was the putting to Death Sultan Bajazet, the 
Son of the Ottoman Emperor Solyman^ who had fled to 
him lor Protection j which, however, procured him an 
advantageous Peace with the Turks, that lafted all the’ 
irft of his Reign. He died in 1556, in the Sixty-eio-hth 
Year of his Age, and the Portieth of his Reio-n and 
bequeathed the Empire to his third Son. ° ’ 
The great Officers of State having more Regard to 
their Conftitution than to the Will of their d^eceafed 
Monarch, fent to his eldeft Son Mahomet Codahende, who 
was Governor of Khorafan, and defired him to take the 
Title of Shah j but he fignified to them, that the Em- 
pire was a Weight too great for his Shoulders to bear 
and advifed them to fee his Brother Ifomael upon the 
Throne. This Prince was about Forty-three Years of 
Age, twenty of which he had fpent in Prifon, where 
his Father had confined him out of Jealoufy. If. 
mael II. was one of the bra veil Men, as well as one of 
the greateft Captains of his Age, but fufpicious and 
cruel. His Father caufed him to be treated very gently 
in his Confinement, and fent him feverai fine Women ; 
but he would never touch them, alledging, that it was 
enough to be miferable himfelf, without begettino a 
Race of Wretches. His Severity was fo great, and°his 
Views to the Prejudice of his Family fo apparent, that 
it is faid his Sifter, at the Requeil of the Nobility, 
poifoned him, when he had reigned only two Years. ’ 
His elder Brother Mahomet Codahende was forced to 
take the Title of Shah upon his Deceafe, againft his 
Will. He loved Privacy and Retirement, from a par- 
ticular Turn in his Temper, and not from any Want of 
Parts or of Vigour. He uled bis three Brothers very 
well upon his firft Coming to the Crown j but finding 
that they were inclined to revolt to the Turks who in^ 
vaded his Dominions, he put them to Death wirhoutMer- 
cy. In the firft Year of his Reign, he gained a fignal 
Vidory over the Turkifh Forces on the Frontiers oi^Ar- 
menia, and in 1578, he beat them again oe^ct Babylon, in 
which Battle they loft fourfcore thoufand Men uporr 
the Spot. The Year following he gave them another 
Blow, for having fent twenty-five thoufand Horfe, and 
five thoufand Camels to forage in the Spring, under an 
Efcort of thirty thoufand Foot, the Perfian Monarch 
by long Marches came upon them in the Night, and 
took his Meafures fo effeclually, that neither Man nor 
Beaft efcaped. This Perfiam Prince, who notwithftand- 
ing all thefe Vidories, is faid ftill to have regretted his 
ever leaving his Station in Khorafan for a Crown, and 
who treated ali the Pomp and Grandeur of it, with the 
utmoft Contempt, died in 1585, leaving behind him 
three Sons, the eldeft of which, Emir Hemfe, fucceeded 
him j but was foon after killed by the Intrigues of his 
Brother Khmael, who had not been long feated upon 
the Throne, before he had his Throat cut by his Bar- 
ber, which made Way for the third Brother, 
This 
