Khurshah ibn Qubad

Khurshah ibn Qubad (Persian: خورشاه بن قباد, romanized: Ḵoršāh ebn Qobād; died July 1565) was a Hyderabad-based diplomat and historian of Iranian ancestry.

Contemporary records written around his time indicates that he was a kinsman of Shah Tahir, an Isma'ili scholar, poet and administrator.

From the same evidence, it can also be deduced that Shah Taher was from Khand (also spelled Khvand or Khond), a rural district situated between Qazvin and Soltaniyeh, an area where the Mohammad-shahi branch of the Isma'ili da'wa (missionary activity) had established a propaganda network.

Some of the distinguished Isma'ili figures of Khand had reportedly established themselves in Soltaniyeh during the end of the 15th-century, which suggests that Khurshah may have lived there during the start of the 16th-century.

In early May 1520, Shah Tahir and his close family members (probably either including Khurshah or his parents) fled to the port city of Jerun (Bandar Abbas).