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¶ § 1009. S̲h̲āh Ṭāhir b. S̲h̲āh Raḍī al-Dīn al-Ismāʿīlī al-Ḥusainī al-Dak’hanī was a teacher (mudarris) at Kās̲h̲ān, who acquired such influence that he aroused the jealousy of S̲h̲āh Ismāʿīl and the hostility of the Ṣadr, Mīr Jamāl al-Dīn Astarābādī. Feeling insecure, he fled to India in 926/1520. Landing at Goa, he stayed for a time at Parēndah, but in 928/1522 he went to Aḥmadnagar on the invitation of Burhān Niẓām-S̲h̲āh and became his trusted adviser. He converted Burhān Niẓām-S̲h̲āh to the S̲h̲īʿite belief and propagated it with much success in the Deccan. He died at Aḥmadnagar in 952/1545, or 953/1546, or 956/1549.
A collection of his letters, Ins̲h̲āʾ, or Muns̲h̲aʾāt, i S̲h̲āh Ṭāhir, partly official and partly private, has been preserved (see Rieu i 395, Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2121).
- Fatḥ-nāmah, an account of the conquest of Shōlāpūr by Burhān Niẓām-S̲h̲āh: Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii 2119 (ah 1077/1666–7 or soon after).
[Tuḥfah i Sāmī, Ṭihrān a.h.s. 1314, p. 29; Burhān i maʾāt̲h̲ir pp. 251–8 (arrival in India), 258–68 (conversion of the king etc.), 324–6 (death) and elsewhere; Majālis al-muʾminīn pp. 352–4 (the last biography in Majlis vii); Firis̲h̲tah, Bombay ed., ii pp. 213–30 (in the account of Burhān Niẓām-S̲h̲āh); Beale Oriental biographical dictionary p. 369; Rieu i 395; Bānkīpūr Suppt. ii pp. 94–5.]
§ 1010. For the Burhān i maʾāthir of ʿAlī b. ʿAzīz Allāh Ṭabāṭabā see p. 582 supra.
§ 1011. “On the back of the first leaf in the present volume” [i.e. the Muntak̲h̲ab i tawārīk̲h̲ i Baḥrī] “there is a note, in English, stating that it contains sketches of the Ahmadnagar history, by the late Kází ’Abd an-Nabí, ‘from original papers in his possession, transcribed from the original ms.’ In the first lines of the text it is mentioned that the Jámi’ al-’Ulúm, written by the late Kází ’Abd an-Nabí, is the source from which the extracts relating to Ahmadnagar are derived; and it would appear that that work was arranged in alphabetical order, since the extracts are said to have been taken from the Chapter of Alif with Há.” ʿAbd al-Nabī b. Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Rasūl Aḥmadnagarī is described by Raḥmān ʿAlī as a pupil and disciple of S̲h̲āh Wajīh al-Dīn ʿAlawī Aḥmadabādī. The well-known Gujrātī saint and scholar of that name (for whom see Raḥmān ʿAlī 249 etc.) died in 998/1590 and cannot have been the immediate teacher of ʿAbd al-Nabī Aḥmadnagarī, whose Persian commentary on the Kāfiyah of Ibn al-Ḥājib, Jāmiʿ al-g̲h̲umūḍ manbaʿ al-fuyūḍ, was written in 1144/1731–2 (Editions: Cawnpore 1881° (2nd ed.), 1896° (4th ed.)). The Jāmiʿ al-‘ulūm, from which the information relating to Aḥmadnagar is taken, must presumably be the work which in the preface is called Dustūr al-ʿulamāʾ jāmiʿ al-ʿulūm al-ʿaqlīyah ḥāwī ’l-furūʿ wa-’l-uṣūl al-naqlīyah (on the title-page of the printed edition Jāmiʿ al-ʿulūm al-mulaqqab bi-Dustūr al-ʿulamāʾ) and of which the first fann, an Arabic dictionary of technical terms, was published at Ḥaidarābād in 1329/1911. It may ¶ be conjectured that one of the funūn of that work is a geographico-historical dictionary in Persian.
- Muntak̲h̲ab i tawārīk̲h̲ i Baḥrī, “notices, documents, and extracts relating to the history of the Dakhin” [especially the Niẓām-S̲h̲āhs] “taken from the … Jámi’ al-’Ulúm, by the Kází ’Abd an-Nabí: r.a.s. P. 78 = Morley 66.
[Raḥmān ʿAlī p. 135].
§ 1012. S̲h̲ihāb al-Dīn was Qāḍī of Aḥmadnagar in the early part of the 19th century.
- S̲h̲ihābī, a historical work [on the Deccan?] compiled from Firis̲h̲tah, K̲h̲āfī K̲h̲ān, the Jāmiʿ al-ʿulūm and the Yād-dās̲h̲t i buzurgān: i.o. 4536 (passages relating to Aḥmadnagar only from the accession of Aḥmad S̲h̲āh [ii] Bahmanī to the time of [Henry] Pottinger circ. 1229 Faṣlī).
