Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh (1608–1671) was a scholar, writer and historian. He was son of Mir Abdu-lla, ''Mushkin Kalam'', whose title shows him to also have been a fine writer.Shah Jahan, 1975, p 131, Henry Miers Elliot – Mogul Empire. Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh was elder brother and teacher of

Muhammad Saleh Kamboh Muhammad Saleh Kamboh Lahori ( ur, محمد صالح کمبوہ لاہوری) was a noted calligraphist and official biographer of Emperor Shah Jahan and the teacher of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Though a widely read person, little is known of t ...

, the famous historian of

Shah Jahan Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), better known by his regnal name Shah Jahan I (; ), was the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from January 1628 until July 1658. Under his emperorship, the Mugha ...

's court and teacher of Mughal 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 ...

. He died in 1671 AD at Delhi, 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

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 Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

''. Like his brother Muhammad Saleh, Inayat-Allah is also stated to be an accomplished Hindi singer. Inayat-Allah Kamboh wrote several historical works. He is most famous for his collection of tales entitled '' Bahar-i-Danish'' (Springtime of Knowledge), completed in 1651 AD, which became one of the most popular textbooks of

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. Historian

, younger brother of Inayat-Allah Kamboh, praised ''Bahar-i-Danish'' as a model of sophisticated workmanship. It became part of the syllabuses of Persian schools and is mentioned in a manuscript-copy of ''Khulasatul Makatib'', written in 1688. From its popular use in Persian schools, educated men and women, both

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and

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, were commonly acquainted with it in Mughal India. During 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).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. 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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