Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad Shabankara'i (Persian: محمد بن علی بن محمد شبانکرائی; c. 1298–1358), better known as Shabankara'i (شبانکارایی) was a Persian[1][2] poet and historian of Kurdish origin.
[3] In 1332 or 1333, Shabankara'i completed his general history Majma‛ al-ansāb fī l- tawārīkh ("A Collection of Genealogies in the Histories"), which was dedicated to Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, the Persian vizier of the Ilkhanate ruler Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (r. 1316–1335).
However, the work was destroyed during a ransacking of the vizier's house due to the disorder that followed after Abu Sa'id's death.
[5] Not long after Shabankara'i's death in c. 1358, a certain Ghiyath al-Din ibn Ali Faryumadi from Gurgan or Khurasan, wrote a short continuation of the Majma‛ al-ansāb, which reports about the history of the Sarbadars and the local dynasties of Khurasan during the mid-to-late 14th century.
[2] Shabankara'i's positive portrayal of the Mongols in his Majma‛ al-ansāb is a demonstration of the emerging Iranian support that they started to receive since the fall of Baghdad in 1258 and the stability and blossoming that followed:[6] "It must be known that from the start of the creation of the world and the creation of mankind no padeshah, sultan, khalif, Caesar, khan, qa'an, faqfor (Chinese emperor), khosrow, raj, Jaipal, Raja, tuba (king of Yemen), amir, or king has exercised such power or dominion over the world as Genghis Khan and his progeny have.