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§ 1007. S. ʿAlī b. ʿAzīz Allāh Ṭabāṭabā,1 or al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī,2 al-Ḥasanī went to India from al-ʿIrāq and entered the service of the Quṭb-S̲h̲āh [evidently either Muḥammad-Qulī, who came to the throne in 989/1580, or his predecessor Ibrāhīm]. Shortly afterwards he witnessed the siege of Naldrug [989–90] in the suite of M.-Qulī Quṭb-S̲h̲āh.3 Apparently he left the Quṭb-S̲h̲āhī service for that of the Niẓām-S̲h̲āhs, since his Burhān i maʾāt̲h̲ir was written by order of Burhān Niẓām S̲h̲āh, who reigned from 999/1591 to 1003/1595.
- Burhān i maʾāt̲h̲ir (a chronogram =ah 1000/1592, the date of inception), a history of the Bahmanids of Gulbargah, the Bahmanids of Bīdar and the Niẓām-S̲h̲āhs of Aḥmadnagar to the year 1004/1596: Browne Pers. Cat. 104 (as far as ah 999 autograph dated ah 1003/1594, the remainder written by the author’s son in 1038/1628), Suppt. 173 (King’s 64), Rieu i 314b (ah 1197/1782–3), Ethé 449 (slightly defective), Romaskewicz p. 4 no. 969.
Edition: Ḥaidarabad (Delhi printed) 1355/1936/?/‡ (Silsilah i mak̲h̲ṭūṭāt i fārisīyah, 2).
Abridged English translations: (1) [Ṭabaqahs i–ii, i.e. Gulbargah and Bīdar] The history of the Bahmanî dynasty. Founded on the Burhân-i Ma,âs̤ir [and the Tad̲h̲kirat al-mulūk of Rafīʿ al-Dīn Ibrāhīm S̲h̲īrāzī]. By J.S. King. (Reprinted from the “Indian Antiquary.”) London 1900°*. (2) [Ṭabaqah iii] The history of the Nizam Shahi Kings of Ahmadnagar. By Lieut.-Colonel Sir Wolseley Haig [Reprinted from the Indian Antiquary, vols. xlix–lii]. Bombay 1923*.
§ 1008. S. Asad Allāh, commonly called (ʿurf) Mīr Nawwāb, was a First Taʿalluq-dār under the Government of Ḥaidarābād.
- Muk̲h̲tār al-ak̲h̲bār tuḥfat al-ak̲h̲yār,4 a history of the Bahmanid dynasty.
Edition: place? date? (see Āṣafīyah iii p. 108 no. 1281).
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Notes
^ Back to text1. Burhān i maʾāt̲h̲ir p. 59820 and also in the colophon of the author’s son, p. 632 ult.
^ Back to text2. B. i m. p. 592.
^ Back to text3. B. i m. p. 534 penult.: Ḥāwī i īn aurāq rā ham dar-ān nazdīkī az wilāyat i ʿIrāq ittifāq i Hindūstān uftādah dar silk i k̲h̲uddām i ʿatabah i ʿulyā-yi Quṭb-S̲h̲āhī intiẓām dās̲h̲t u dar-ān rūz dar mulāzamat i ḥaḍrat i Quṭb-S̲h̲āh bar bulandī kih mus̲h̲rif bar ḥiṣār u maʿrakah i paikār būd istādah īn wāqiʿah i hāʾilah rā ba-rāy al-ʿain mus̲h̲āhadah mī numūd.
^ Back to text4. Muk̲h̲tār al-ak̲h̲yār tuḥfat al-ak̲h̲bār according to the Āṣafīyah catalogue.
