[Footnote 185: The kings of Persia in the last century are
descended from Sheik Sefi, a saint of the xivth century, and
through him, from Moussa Cassem, the son of Hosein, the son
of Ali, (Olearius, p. 957. Chardin, tom. iii. p. 288.) But
I cannot trace the intermediate degrees in any genuine or
fabulous pedigree. If they were truly Fatimites, they might
draw their origin from the princes of Mazanderan, who
reigned in the ixth century, (D'Herbelot, p. 96.)]