Priscilla Pointer
Priscilla Marie Pointer( born May 18, 1924) is an American stage, film and television character actress.
She began her career in the theater, including productions on Broadway.
Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood to act in films and on television.
She is the mother of Amy Irving, therefore making her the former mother- in- law of filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Bruno Barreto and the mother- in- law of documentary filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, Jr.
Pari Khan Khanum
Pari Khan Khanum (also spelled Parikhan Khanum; 1548–12 February 1578, aged 29) was a Safavid princess, the daughter of the Safavid king ("shah")
Tahmasp I (1524 – 1576) and his Circassian consort, Sultan-Agha Khanum.
An influential figure in the Safavid state, Pari Khan Khanum was well educated and knowledgeable in traditional Islamic sciences such as jurisprudence, and was an accomplished poet.
She played a crucial role in securing the succession of her brother Ismail II (r. 1576–1577) to the Safavid throne.
During Ismail's brief reign, her influence lessened, but then increased during the reign of Ismail's successor, Mohammad Khodabanda (r. 1578–1587), even becoming the "de facto" ruler of the Safavid state for a short period.
She was strangled to death on 12February 1578 at Qazvin because her influence and power were perceived as dangerous by the Qizilbash.
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Lois Robinson( née Shields; born July 29, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, and Craig Robinson, a basketball executive, and the mother- in- law of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Haydar Mirza Safavi
Haydar Mirza Safavi( also spelled Haidar Mirza Safavi) was a Safavid prince, who declared himself as the king( shah) of Iran on 15 May 1576, the following day after his father Tahmasp I had died.
He was, however, during the same day killed by the Qizilbash tribes that favored his brother Ismail Mirza Safavi as the successor of their father.
His mother was Sultanzadeh Khanum, a Georgian lady.
Shah Verdi Khan
Shah Verdi Khan was the last atabeg of Lesser Luristan of the Khorshidi dynasty.
Shah Verdi Khan was the husband of a Safavid princess who was the daughter of Prince Badi al- Zaman Mirza who is the son of Prince Bahram Mirza who is the son of Shah Ismail I Around the start of the 17th century Verdi Khan revolted against the tribute he was assessed by Shah Abbas I.
This led to Abbas invading Luristan and removing Verdi Khan from power.
Badi' al-Zaman Mirza
Badi' al- Zaman Mirza( died 1514) was a Timurid ruler of Herat from 1506 to 1507.
He was the son of Husayn Bayqarah, who was a great- great- grandson of Timur Beg.
Maria Thins
Maria Thins( c. 1593 – 27 December 1680) was the mother- in- law of Johannes Vermeer and a member of the Gouda Thins family.
Badi-al Zaman Mirza Safavi
Badi-al Zaman Mirza Safavi was a Safavid prince, who was the son of prominent military leader Bahram Mirza Safavi, who was the youngest son of Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid empire.
Badi-al Zaman had two brothers named Ibrahim Mirza and Sultan Husayn Mirza.
When Badi-al Zaman's father died in 1549, he, along with his other siblings were taken care of by Tahmasp, who even announced Badi-al Zaman as his own son.
Badi al-Zaman was appointed as the governor of Sistan in 1557, and married Pari Khan Khanum (who was at that time 10 years old).
However, since she was Tahmasp's favored daughter, she was not allowed to go alongside her husband to Sistan.
According to the other historians, however, Pari Khan Khanum was only engaged to Badi al-Zaman, which according to Gholsorkhi seems more believable.
Allegedly the marriage went no farther, since Pari Khan Khanum chose a bureaucratic life in the capital, alongside her father, over married life in Sistan.
On 26 March 1577, Badi-al Zaman Mirza was assassinated in Qandahar on the orders of shah Ismail II (r. 1576–77).
Eldon Howard
Eldon Howard was a British screenwriter.
She was the mother- in- law of Edward J. Danziger and wrote a number of the screenplays for films by his company Danziger Productions.
Ali Akbar Isfahani
Ali Akbar Isfahani was a 17th century Persian architect of the Safavid era.
He is best known for the Shah Mosque commissioned by Shah Abbas and built in 1611 – 1631.
His name appears in an inscription in the mosque above the doorway of the entrance iwan complex of the mosque.
Isfahani was born in 985 AH( 1577 AD).
He was a pupil of Badi' al- Zaman Yazdi, the grand architect of Shah Abbas.

Question: Who is Badi-Al Zaman Mirza Safavi's mother-in-law?
Answer: Sultan-Agha Khanum