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Afzal 24 Ahmad Afzal Khan, ^J■=^ iS'^>j Shaikh 'Ahd-urrahman, son of the celehrated Shaikh Abul-Fazl, minister and secretary to the emperor Akhar, was Jahangir's governor of Bihar in 1610 A. D., and died at Agra in 1613. Vide Ain Translation, p. sxxv (Abul-Fazl's Biography), and Dowson, YI, 205.] Afzal Khan, ^l=>- (J-vail^ whose original name was Mulla Shukr-ullah, the son of 'Alxlul-Hakk, came from Shu-az to the Dakhin, and was introduced by 'Abdur-Iiahfm Khan, Khankhan&n, to the emperor Jahangir, who conferred on him the rank, of an Amir. In the second year of Shah Jahan, 1628 A. D., 1038 A. H., the office of Wizarat-i-kull having become vacant b)' the dismissal of Iradat Khan, the brother of Asaf Khan Ja'far Beg, he was honored with that appointment. In the eleventh year of the emperor, the mansab of 7,000 and 4,000 sawars was conferred on him, but he died the next year at Labor on the 7th Janu- ary, 12th Eamazan, 1048 A. H., 1639 0. S., aged 70 years. His poetical name was 'AUami. His tomb, called Chini Eau7a is in Agra, oif the left bank of the Jamuna. Afzal-Tld-daula, (Nawab), Nizam of Haidarabad, suc- ceeded his father Nawab Nasir-ud-daula in May 1867, 15th Zil-ka'da, 1285 A. H., and departed this life on the 26th of February 1869, aged 44 years, leaving an infant son who, according to the succession guarantee granted by Lord Canning, is now his successor. Afzal-uddin, (Mir), Nawab of Surat. He died on the Vth August, 1840, at the age of 59 years, after enjoying his nominal nawabship about 21 years. His son-in-law, Mir Ja'far 'All, succeeded him. Agah Khan, a eunuch of the emperor Shah Jahan, who died on the 9th Eabi' I, 1067 A. H. His tomb is near the Mumtaz-Mahall in Tajganj. Agah, a(f the poetical name of Maulawl Muhammad Bakir. His parents were of Bfjapur, but he was born at Ellora in 1745 A.D., 1158 A. H., and died on the 3rd of March 1806 A. D., 14th ZU-hijja 1220 A. H. He is the author of a Diwan. He was a Naita (pi. Naivdit, said to be a corruption of the Persian nau-dmad, a ' new arrival'), a name given to certain seafaring Arabs, settled in Western India.] Agha Ahmad 'Ali, poetically styled Ahmad, son of Aghli Shajii'at 'AH, of Dhaka, a Persian grammarian of note, who successfully defended, in his " Muayyid-i-Bui-han," and the " Shamsher-i-Teztar," the author of the Burhan Kati', a Persian Dictionary, against the famous Dihli poet GhAlib. He also published the " Eisala-i-Ishtikak", the " Eisala-i-Tarana", "Haft Asman," a History of the Persian Masnawi, and edited several works for the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He was a Persian teacher in the Calcutta Madrasa, when he died (June 1873).] Agha Husain Khwansari, ^l«J[ya. Uf^ vide Husain Khwansari. Agha Mir, Lef^ entitled Mu'tamad-ud-daida, minister of Ghazi-uddin Haidar, king of Audh. He was dismissed in 1826 A. D., 1242 A. H., and retired to Kanhpur, where he died on Monday 7th May, 1832, 5th ZQ-hijja, 1247. Agha Muhammad Khan, cJ^^ •^♦^ Uf^ j^^a Muhammad Khan Kajar. Agha JJulla, ^ Uf^ surnamed ' Dawatdar', ' the inkstand- holder,' the ancestor of the three Asaf Khans who served •ondor Akbar and Jahangir. His genealogical table is given in Ain Translation, I, 369.] Aghar Khan, ^^l^^il^ Pir Muhammad, who served during the reign of Aurangzib against Prince Shuja', in Asam, and in Kabul. He died in A. H. 1102. His son, Aghar Khan II, was still alive during the reign of Muhammad Shah. The family traced their descent from Aghar, a descendant of Yafis (Japhet), son of Nuh. Their vUla Agharabad near Dihli is often mentioned in the histories.] Ahi, C5*^5 a poet who was a chief of one of the Chaghtai hordes, and had assumed originally the poetical name of "Nargisi," but changed it into "Ahi", because he found that another poet of his time had adopted it. He is the author of a Diwan which he dedicated to prince Gharib Mirza, the son of Sultan Husain Mirza Baikra. He died in the year 1520 A. D., 927 A. H. Ahl-i-Bait, JiAt^ ' the people of the house', a general name for the descendants of Muhammad, the Sayyids.] Ahl-i-Kitab, t^Ur cJai^ ' the people of the book', a collec- tive name for the Jews, Christians, and Muhammadans, who received a book, i. e., revealed religion, from heaven.] Ahli Khurasani, i^^^^!^^ a poet who died at Tabriz in the year 1527 A. D., 934 A. H. He must not be confounded with Ahli-i-Turani, a Chaghtai noble- man of profligate character, who lived at the court of Sultan Husain Mirza, and died in 1497 A. D., 902 A. H. Ahli Shirazi, tiLil/-'"* (Maulana) of Shfraz, an elegant poet in the service of Shah Isma'il Safawl I. He is the author of several poems, amongst which are the " Sihr-i- Halal", " Sham' wa Parwana", " Eisala-i-Naghz", Saki- nama", and " Fawaid-ul-Fawaid." He died in the year 1535 A. D., 942 A. H., and is buried at Shiraz, close to the tomb of Hafiz. Ahlia Bai, the wife of Madhu Eao Peshwa Sindia, built a place in the time of Shall 'Alam, called Bisnan Ghat, or a bathing-place for all men, on the banks of the river Jamuna. It extended from the trench of the fort to the house of Dara Shikoh, and was in good preser- vation in the year 1830 A. D. On one of the corners a large gun of iron was lying, under the Haweli of Dara Shikoh, called Dhard Dahani. Ahlia Bai, t^^i the wife of Khande Eao, the son of Malhar Eao Holkar I, of Indor, after whose death, in 1766 A. D., she had a jiSgir allotted to her yielding an annual revenue of 1,500,000 Eupees. Her husband Khande Eao was killed in battle at Dig against Stirajmal Jat in 1754. Her son Mali Eao, who had succeeded his grandfather Malhar Eao in 1766, died nine months after. She was a woman of spirit and ability, and reserved in her own hands the right of nominating a successor, and elected Tokaji to the raj. Ahmad al-Makkari, <^*^^, author of the History of the Muhammadan Dynasties in Spain. This work was trans- lated by M. Pascual de Gayangos, an erudite Spaniard, London, 1810, in 4to., Vol. I. He was born in the 16th century, and died in Damascus in the year 1631 A. D., 1041 A. H. After having composed a very detailed biography of the celebrated and learned wazir of Granada, Muhammad Ibn-ul-Khatib, he added to it, in the form of an introduction, a general history of the Arabs in Spain from the conquest to their iinal expulsion. Ahmad I, <>-*^'* lir. '^■♦■^'j emperor of Turkey, son and successor of Muhammad III, whom he succeeded in Janu- ary, 1604 A. D., Sha'ban, 1012 A. H. This prince was of a good constitution, strong and active ; he would throw a