Bakhtawar Khan Mohammad, or simply Bakhtawar, (Persian: بختورخان ، محمد, born 1620 in Persia; died February 19, 1685, near Delhi) was a

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

historian, poet, official and later also personal advisor of the king at the court of the

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emperor

Aurangzeb Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...

Early life

Like many Persian poets, traders and nobles in the Early modern period, Bakhtawar's family migrated from

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to the

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, where

-speaking people in particular were in great demand at the

Mughal court Mughal or Moghul may refer to: Related to the Mughal Empire * Mughal Empire of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries * Mughal dynasty * Mughal emperors * Mughal people, a social group of Central and South Asia * Mughal architecture * Mug ...

and made up an important part of the nobility.

Literature

* S. S. Alvi, “The Historians of Awrangzeb: A Comparative Study of Three Primary Sources,” ''Essays on Islamic Civilization'', ed. D. P. Little, Leiden, 1976, pp. 57–73. * Bakhtāwar Khān, ''Mirʾāt al-ʿĀlam: History of Emperor Awrangzeb ʿĀlamgīr'', ed. S. S. Alvi, I-II, Lahore, 1979. * H. M. Elliot, ''The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians'', ed. J. Dowson, London, 1877, VIII, pp. 150–53. * Mostaʿed Khan, ''Maʾāṯer-e ʿālamgīrī'', Eng. tr. Jadunath Sarkar, Calcutta, 1947, pp. 59, 61, 142, 155. * Moḥammad-Afżal Sarḵoš, ''Kalemāt al-šoʿarāʾ'', Lahore, n.d., pp. 25–26. ''EI''² I, p. 954. * Rieu, ''Pers. Man.'' I, pp. 124–27; III, pp. 890–91, 975. * Storey, I, pp. 132–33, 517, 1012.

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