This inscription is from the year 1963 AD, and was commissioned by Pahlavi era Iran’s Organization of National heritage. At the time the Shrine of Imam Zadeh Mahrooq (a descendant of Zayd ibn Ali) was thoroughly restored and this inscription was added to document the work done at that time. Although the Shrine was in fairly good condition, the Pahlavi interventions ornamented the previously simple and bare shrine with many high quality mosaics and repaired some crumbling walls.

There are two unique elements to this inscription.

The first is that a significant portion of the center is defaced, this is obviously where the name of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi existed previously and was sloppily painted over after the revolution in 1979.

The second is that this inscription is in some pseudo Arabic-Persian language mix. This strange mix which is neither fully Arabic or Persian was often used in Qajar era inscriptions but it is surprising to see it used in a Pahlavi inscription from as late as the 1960’s! Arabic inscriptions would be nearly completed abandoned after the 1979 revolution in favor of solely using Persian for inscriptions with historic data.

The Shrine itself was built during the Timurid period by Sultan Hossein Bayqara, while the oldest surviving inscription of the Shrine is from the Safavid era and mentions the name of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524 – 1576) and extensive work done to the shrine at that time.