Abū al-Faḍl ʿAllāmī (958–1011/1551–1602) was a Persian-speaking historian, man of letters, thinker and grand vizier to Akbar (q.v.) the Mughal emperor of India.

His ancestors came from Yemen, and some six generations earlier, his forebear Shaykh Mūsā had emigrated to Sind. In the 10th/15th–16th century his grandfather, Shaykh Khiḍr, moved from Sind to Nagaur in Gujarat, where his son Shaykh Mubārak (911–995/1505–1587), Abū al-Faḍl's father, was born. In 1543 Shay…