New Findings about the Literary History of Persia: Some Eminent People from Kohgilūyeh

The historical Kohgilūyeh is a vast area in the west of the province of Fars, now divided between the province of Khuzestan, Kohgilūyeh-Boyrahmad, and Būshehr. In the early Islamic centuries, the name 'Kohgilūye' had been applied to the northern parts of the ancient kureh (region) of Arjān (Arghān) or the Boyrahmad territory and then, after the destruction of the city of Arjān - seat of the Arjān kureh – from the sixth century on, it gradually came to be applied to the entire Kureh of Arjān. In the course of long extensive study he has made of the history and outstanding people of this region, this writer has come across a number of its scholars, who can truly be considered as 'the lost link's in the chain of Iran's history of science and literary history, whom literary historians have failed to mention in their works while those scholars were amongst the learned men of their time, the works of some of them being kept in manuscript form in the world's important libraries. These scholars are: Jamāl-al-Din 'Abd-al-Hamid of Kohgilūyeh, known as "Sāhib-al-Bahr" (the possessor of the sea); Bahā'-al-Din 'Osmān of Kohgilūyeh; Nezam-al-Din Eshāq of Kohgilūye; Nural- Din Jahāngir of Kohgilūyeh; Mahdiqoli "Soltān" of Kohgilūyeh, and Kamāl-al-Din 'Abd-al-Aziz of Kohgilūyeh.