Report on the historical details of a number of neglected storytellers in Iran and South Asia from the 16th to 17th centuries CE, including Zain al-‘Ābidīn Takaltū Khān, ‘Ināyat Allāh Darbār Khān, Fusūnī Yazdī, Mīr Muḥammad Hāshim, Iskandar Qiṣṣah-khẉān, Ḥājī Qiṣṣah-khẉān Hamadānī, Niẓām Shīrāzī, Mīr Qiṣṣah, Muḥammad Ṭanbūrah, Mīrzā Muḥammad Fārs Hamadānī, Mullā Asad, Mullā Rashīd, Mīr `Abd al-Bāqī, and ‘Abd al-Nabī Fakhr al-Zamānī.