Mir Tahir Muhammad Ibn Hassan Sabzavari Tattavi was a
Sindhi Muslim
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poet and historian during the rule of the
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...
, who composed poetry under the pen-name ''Nisyani''. His family emigrated to Thatta, Sindh from
Iran
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. His original ancestral surname was ''Sabzavari''. His father was a
Sawar
Sowar ( ur, سوار, also ''siwar'' meaning "the one who rides" or "rider", from Persian ) was originally a rank during the Mughal Empire and Maratha Empire. Later during the British Raj it was the name in Anglo-Indian usage for a horse-sold ...
and the
Mughal governor of Eastern Sindh and later Gujarat during the reign of
Mughal Emperor
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Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...
.
Including his talents as a poet, Tahir was also a historian he wrote the Garden of the Immaculate (''Rawzat al-tahirin'') completed (1014.AH/1606.AD) a large 36 chapter history of
Sindh
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and the
Muslim World
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), under the patronage of
Mirza Ghazi Beg
Mirza Ghazi Beg Tarkhan ( fa, میرزا غازى بیگ ترخان, r. 1599–1612 CE) of the Tarkhan dynasty in Sindh ruled from the capital city of Thatta. He was the most powerful Mughal governor who administered Sindh, during whose rule the ...
(r.1599-1609.AD/1008-1018.AH).
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