The Imam Hasan Ali Shah was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati ( d. 1815 ), a poet and a Ni ‘ mat Allahi Sufi.

Two years later, in 1817, Shah Khalil Allah was killed during a conflict between some of his followers and local shopkeepers.

Those who had been involved in the Shah Khalil Allah's murder were punished and the Persian king Fath Ali Shah increased Hasan Ali Shah's land holdings in the Mahallat region and gave him one of his daughters, Sarv-i Jahan Khanum, in marriage.

Timur himself had divided his territories between Pir Muhammad, Miran Shah, Khalil Sultan and Shah Rukh, which resulted in inter-family warfare.

Notably, these jurists included Hajj Mirza Hossein ( also known as Hossein Shah ) whose title was Adl-ol-molk ( Justice of the Kingdom ), Seid Mirza Ebrahim Khalil whose title was Rokn-ol-edaleh ( Pillar of Justice ), and Mirza Mostafa Khan Adl whose title was Mansoor-ol-saltaneh ( the Victorious of the Empire ).

The eldest, Shihab al-Din Shah ( also known as Aqa Khalil Allah ) was born around 1851-2 and wrote some treatises in Persian on Muslim ethics and Ismaili spirituality.

The mausoleum is also the resting place of Aqa Ali Shah's grandfather, Shah Khalil Allah, who was the forty-fifth Imam of the Nizari Ismailis, and for whom the mausoleum was first constructed.

At the same time, Miran Shah supported another son, Khalil Sultan, in his claims the throne.

المتوكل على الله محمد ظاهر شاه, " AlMutawakkil ' ala Allah Muhammad Zhahir Shah " which means " The leaner on Allah, Muhammad Zhahir Shah ".

18th-century examples are Shah Wali Allah in India and Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab ( who founded Wahhabism ) in the Arabian Peninsula.

This is when mystics or Sufis such as Shah Abdul Latif, Sachal Sarmast, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar ( as well as numerous others ) narrated their theosophical poetry depicting the relationship between humans and Allah.

* Nur al-Din Ni ’ mat Allah, known as Shah Ni ' matullah Wali ( 1330 – 1431 ), Syrian Islamic scholar and Sufi poet

* Shah Wali Allah

Shah Wali Allah played an important role in the religious sciences, particularly the hadith and translated the Qur ' an into Persian.

Shah Wali Allah extended Suhrawardi school of thought to the Indian subcontinent.

The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is :"( Shaykh ) Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Shaykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of Javaad the son of Pirooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjani ( Piruz Shah Zarin Kolah the Kurd of Sanjan )" similar to the ancestry of Sheykh Safi al-Din's father in law, Sheikh Zahed Gilani, who also hailed from Sanjan, in Greater Khorassan.

* Shah Waliullah: in At-Tadhkeer bi ayyaamillah-Remembrance of the Days of Allah.

** The Isfahani style spanning through the Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, and Qajarid dynasties starting from the 16th century onward, e. g. Chehelsotoon, Ali Qapu, Agha Bozorg Mosque, Kashan, Shah Mosque, Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque.

A range of traditional designs are still used including allover Shah Abbas, vase, Tree of Life and pictorial schemes but by far the most popular composition is based on a circular central medallion ( derived from the famous mosque of Shah Lutf Allah in Esfahan ) set against an elegantly sculpted field decorated with intricately purling vine palmette and floral motifs.

* Al-Musaffa Sharh al-Muwatta, Shah Wali Allah Dahlawi ( al-Musaffa Sharh al-Muwatta in Persian ).

· Chisti-Sabiri which goes back through Mulla Qutub al-Din to Shaikh Muhibb Allah of Allahbad, the great proponent of Ibn al-Arabi to Shah Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Haqq of Radawli

There follows a need to trace the development of their scholarship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a development which seems to stand in stark contrast so that of Shah Wali Allah, his descendants and their followers, both spiritual and intellectual.

Taimur captured Herat in 1381 and his son, Shah Rudkh moved the capital of the Timurid empire to Herat in 1405.

Zahir Shah moved back into his old palace.

It is descended from one Bal Narsingh Kunwar of Kaski, who moved to Gorkha in the early 18th century and entered the service of Raja Nara Bhupal Shah around 1740.

After Shah Rukh moved the capital to Herat ( in modern Afghanistan ), sixteen-year-old Ulugh Beg became the Shah Ruks's governor in Samarkand in 1409.

When Nadir Shah Afshar conquered Kandahar in 1150 A. H, in order to propagate the Persian language in Afghanistan, he planted settlements from Iran and moved a number of people from Afghanistan, whom he settled by grants of land in the middle of Iran.

His parents originated from Laghman Province of Afghanistan, and the family moved to Mazar-i-Sharif when his father was a government official under the monarchy of Mohammed Zahir Shah.

In 1598 Shah Abbas the Great moved his capital from Qazvin to the more central and Persian Isfahan.

The state capital was moved to Shah Alam after the cession.

In February 1739, Nadir Shah captured Sirhind and moved towards the field of Karnal, a battle destined to be fateful to the Mughal rulers.

Bulleh Shah received his early schooling in Pandoke and moved to Kasur for higher education.

Shah Nahwaz Khan moved north across the Japanese rear but by the time he reached Ukhrul, the Japanese had already begun to withdraw.

In 1215-1216, Elduz, who had been defeated and expelled from Ghazni by the forces of the Shah of Khwarezm, moved towards Punjab and laid claim to the throne of Delhi as the heir to Muhammad of Ghor.

Nader Shah moved the Zand tribe from their home in Lakestan to the eastern steppes of Khorasan.

By late noon a detachment of the relief column led by Adrian Hope disengaged from the Secundra Bagh and moved towards the Shah Najaf.

Hearing the news, Siraj ud-Daula moved to attack Calcutta, but fearing an attack from Ahmad Shah Abdali, after a few days of war he signed the Treaty of Alinagar with the East India Company, giving them permission to build the fort.

Jurjani continued as court physcian to Khwarazm ' Shah Qutb al-Din's son and successor, ‘ Ala al-Ddowleh Atsoz, until at some unspecified time he moved to the city of Merv, the capital of the rival Seljuq Sultan Sanjar ibn Malikshah ( ruled 1118 – 1157 ), where he died nearly at 100 lunar years of age.

Al-Jurjani wrote the Persian medical encyclopedia, Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm ( also known as The Treasure of Khvarazm Shah ), some time after 1110, when he moved to the northern Persian province of Khwarezm.

In the early 17th century, the Persian Shah Abbas the Great moved many Afshars from Azerbaijan to Khorasan to defend the north-eastern borders of his state against the Uzbeks.

But by 1964, Mohammad Reza Shah had consolidated his control of both his regime and the country and he quickly moved to further guarantee his position by increasing the powers of SAVAK ( the state's intelligence agency ), which was infamous for the torture and killings it inflicted on the opposition and even on ordinary Iranians who merely uttered any wrong words against the regime.

Neauphle-le-Château gained international fame in 1978 when, on October 8th, Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini rented and moved into a local chateau following his exile by the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the midst of the Iranian Revolution, and after being deported from Iraq where he was taking refuge amongst the Shi ' a community.

In 1340 Mas ' ud moved against the Ja ' un-i Qurban under Arghun Shah ; the latter was forced to abandon Nishapur and retreat to Tus.