Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh
Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh | |
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Born | 1608 |
Died | 1671 Bahar-i-Danish |
Relatives | Muhammad Saleh Kamboh (brother) |
Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh (1608–1671) was a scholar, writer and historian during the
Inayat-Allah Kamboh spent his early life in the military service of the Mughals and was a "Mir Munshi" (Inspector General) of Shah Jahan and held a mansab of 800 horses. But he after a period of service, he retired from the world and lived besides the sacred shrine of Qutb-ud-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki at Delhi.[2] Like his brother Muhammad Saleh, Inayat-Allah is also stated to be an accomplished Hindi singer.[2][6]
Inayat-Allah Kamboh wrote several historical works. He is most famous for his collection of tales entitled
His another important work of Kamboh is the Takmilah-yi-Akbar-Namah which is a continuation of Abu-al-Fazl's Akbar-Namah and narrates the last four years of emperor Akbar's reign. He also wrote two more books known as Dalkasha and Asharaf-al-Sarayaf.
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References
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- ^ The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, 1877, p 123, Henry Miers Elliot, John Dowson
- ^ a b c d Shah Jahan, 1975, p 131, Henry Miers Elliot – Mogul Empire.
- ^ Modern Asian Studies, 1988, p 308, Cambridge University Press Online Journals, JSTOR (Organization) – Asia.
- ^ Muhammad Saleh Kamboh was Shahi Dewan (Minister) with Governor of Lahore.
- ^ The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan: An Abridged History of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, Compiled by His Royal Librarian: the Nineteenth-century Manuscript Translation of A.R. Fuller (British Library, Add. 30,777), 1990, p xxviii, Inayat Khan, Wayne Edison Begley, Z. A. Desai, Ziyaud-Din A. Desai.
- ^ Persian literature in India during the time of Jahangir and Shah Jahan, 1970, p 171, M. Lutfur Rahman, Persian literature India History and criticism.
- ^ See: Muhammad Saleh Kamboh, Vol. 2, 1660: 862.
- ^ See: Language, Ideology and Power : Language-Learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India , p 127, Tariq Rahman (2 May 2002) – Oxford University Press, USA.