Moolah Ali, a celebrated Persian historian, of whom hardly anything is known, was born at Yezd, in Persia, during the fifteenth century of our era. He was a doctor of the Moslem law, and lived at Shiraz, where he wrote the work by which he is now known, and on which his reputation is founded. This was the Zafar-Nama, or book of Victories of the celebrated Timur or Tamerlane. This work, which is greatly too much overloaded with metaphor and ornate expression for the occidental taste, possesses, nevertheless, great merit for the oriental beauty in which it is so lustrously set. "His geography and chronology," says Gibbon, in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. xii., "are wonderfully accurate; and he may be trusted for public facts, though he servilely praises the virtue and fortune of his hero." His encomiums on Timour are indeed carried to the most fulsome extent of oriental panegyric; but both gratitude and interest would combine to produce this effect; and the bias thus shown is in some measure useful as enabling us to qualify the equally exaggerated invectives of another biographer of Timour, the Syrian Arabshah. Yezdi's book is a panegyric of Tamerlane, and an eastern panegyric too. This work has been translated into French and Turkish.