Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh

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Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh
Born1608
Died1671
Bahar-i-Danish
RelativesMuhammad Saleh Kamboh (brother)

Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh (1608–1671) was a scholar, writer and historian during the

Mughal era. He was son of Mir Abdu-lla, Mushkin Kalam, whose title shows him to also have been a fine writer.[1][2] Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh was elder brother and teacher of Muhammad Saleh Kamboh, the famous historian of Shah Jahan's court and teacher of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.[3][2][4] He died in 1671 AD at Delhi,[5] and his Maqbara is located in Guband Kambohan wala on Empress Road near Railways Headquarters, Lahore
.

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

British rule too, according to education reports, it was taught in nearly all schools and its style and idiom were regarded as the best models of composition (Reid 1852: 54).[8]

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

  1. ^ The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, 1877, p 123, Henry Miers Elliot, John Dowson
  2. ^ a b c d Shah Jahan, 1975, p 131, Henry Miers Elliot – Mogul Empire.
  3. ^ Modern Asian Studies, 1988, p 308, Cambridge University Press Online Journals, JSTOR (Organization) – Asia.
  4. ^ Muhammad Saleh Kamboh was Shahi Dewan (Minister) with Governor of Lahore.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Persian literature in India during the time of Jahangir and Shah Jahan, 1970, p 171, M. Lutfur Rahman, Persian literature India History and criticism.
  7. ^ See: Muhammad Saleh Kamboh, Vol. 2, 1660: 862.
  8. ^ 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.