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Amir 50 Anarkali his grandfather. After his death, Shahrukh Mirza the youngest of the two surviving sons of Tamerlane, suc- ceeded to the inheritance assigned for Pir Muhammad. List of the kings of Samarlcand of the race of Amir Taimur. Khalil Sultan, the son of Mfran Shah. Shahrukh Mirza, son of Amir Taimur. Ala-ud-daula Mirza. Ulugh Beg Mirza, son of Shahrukh; Mirza Babar who subsequently conquered Dehli and be- came the first emperor of the Mughuls in India. Mirza Abdul-Latif. Mirza Shah Muhammad. Mirza Ibrahim. Sultan Abu Sayyid. Mirza Yadgar Muhammad. Amir Yemin-uddin, c:!'^-'! ^^:^JJXK^ entitled Malik- ul-Fuzla, i. e., the prince of the learned, was a Turk and an excellent poet. He flourished in the time of Sultan Muhammad Khuda Banda, and died in 1324 A. D., 724 A. H., vide Tughardi. Amili, LS^^'^j a poet who is the author of a Diwan. This person appears to be the same with Shaikh Baha-uddin 'Amilf. Amina, ' ; the wife of 'Abdullah, and mother of Mu- hammad the prophet of the Musalmans. She was the daughter of Wahab the son of 'Abdul Manaf. She is represented as the most beautiful, prudent and virtuous lady of her tribe, and consequently the most worthy of such an extraordinary person as 'Abdullah. She died six years after the bii'th of her son Muhammad, about the year 577 A. D. Amjad 'Ali Shall, JlUi ^^1^ "^as the son of Muham- mad All Shah whom he succeeded on the throne of Lakh- nau as king of Oudh with the title of Suria Jah, on the 17th of May, 1842, 5th Eabf II, 1258 A. H., and died on the 16th March, 1847 A. D., 26th Safar, 1263 A. H. He was succeeded by his son Wajid All' Shah, in whose time Oudh was annexed to the British Goveiment on the 7th of February, 1856 A. D. 'Ammar ibn Hissan, ^J^^ ^^jfjU^, was Alfs general of the horse, and was killed in battle fought by Ali against Mu'awia the first khalif of the house of Umaia, in the month of July, 657 A. D., Safar, 37 A. H. He was then about 90 years of age, and had been in three several en- gagements with Muhammad himself. He was one of the murderers of Usman the 3rd khalif after Muhammad. Amra-al Kais, (_>».>:^l ^Ij^^, tlie son of Hajar, one of the most illustrious poets the Arabians had before Muhamma- danism. He is one of the seven poets whose poems have, for their excellency, been hung in the temple of Mecca. These poems were called " Muallakat," (suspended), and as they were written in letters of gold, they were also called " Muzahhibat." The names of these seven celebrated poets, are Amra-al-Kais, Tarafa, Zuhir, Labid, Antar, Amru and Harath. Amra-al-Kais is the same person who is commonly called Majnun, the lover of Laila, and Labid was his friend and master. Tide Lover of Majnun and Laila trans- lated into English. Amrit Rao, ci) j^o^^ a Mahratta chief who had been placed on the masnad of Puna by Holkar in 1803 A. D., but deposed by the British and a pension of 700,000 rupees was assigned for his support annually. He was the son of Eaghunath Rao commonly called Eaghoba. For some time he resided at Banaras and then in Bundelkhand ; and died at the former station in 1824, A. D. Amru bin Mua'wia, *Jjt«x jj.*^^ an ancient Arabias poet whose collection of poems are to be found in the Eoyal Library at Paris, No. 1120. 'Amru ibn A1-' As, Qot*J' a celebrated Muham- madan, at first the enemy and afterwards the friend of Muhammad, of whom, it is reported by tradition, that Muhammad said, "There is no truer Musalman, nor one more steadfast in the faith than 'Amru." He served in the wars of Syria, where he behaved with singular courage and resolution. Afterwards U'mar the khalif sent him into Egypt, which he reduced in 641 A. D., 20 A. H., and became lieutenant of the conquered country. Usman continued him in that post four years, and then removed him ; whereupon he retired to Palestine, where he lived privately till Usman' s death. Upon this event, he went over to lIu'awia upon his invitation ; and took a gTeat part in the dispute between 'Ali and Mu'awia. The latter re- stored him to the lieutenancy of Egypt, and continued him in it till his death, which hapjjened in 663 A. D., 43 A. H. Before he turned Muhammadan, he was one of the three poets who were famous for writing lampoons upon Muhammad, in which style of composition 'Amru parti- cularly excelled. There are some fine proverbs of his remaining, and also some good verses. He was the son of a courtezan of Slecca, who seems to have numbered some of the noblest of the land among her lovers. When she gave birth to this child, the infant was declared to have most resemblance to 'As, the oldest of her admirers, whence, in addition to his name of Amrii, he received the designation of Ibn-al-'As. 'Amru, '^i*^ (i)^ Jj-^^, the son of Sa'id was a cousin of the khalif 'Abdul-Malik. In the year 688 A. D., 69 A. H., the khalif left Damascus to go against Misaa'b the son of Zuber, and appointed Amru to take care of Damascus, who seized upon it for himself, which obliged 'Abdul-Malik to return. After three or four days the khalif sent for him and killed him with his own hand. 'Amru bin Lais, i^^ijj*^, brother of Ya'kub ibn Lais, whom he succeeded in the goverrmient of Khurasan, &c., in 878 A. D., 265 A. H., and ruled over those countries for 23 years. He was at last seized by Amir Isma'fl Sa- mani in 900 A. D., 288 A. H., and sent to Baghdad where he was confined for some time ; his execution was the last act of the Ivhalif Al-Mo'tazid, who gave orders for it a few months before his own death in 901 A. D., 289 A. H. He was blind of one eye. With Amrii fell the fortunes of his family. His grandson Tahir, struggled for power in his native province : but after a reign of six years, during which he conquered Fars, his authority was subverted by one of his own ofiicers, by whom he was seized and sent prisoner to Baghdad. The only other prince of the family of Bani Lais that attained any eminence, was a chief of the name of Khalaf, who established himself in Sistan and maintained his power over that province till the time of Sultan Mahmiid of Ghazni, by whom he was defeated and made prisoner. Amurath, names of several emperors of Turkey written so by English writers, being a corruption of Murad, which see. Anandpal, (Jl-it^j^l, son of Jaiiml I, raja of Labor whom he succeeded about the year 1001 A. D., and became tributary to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni. He died about the year 1013, and was succeeded in the government by his son Jaipal II. Anarkali, ls^ J^i a famous lady, who lived in the time of the emperor Jahangir. Her mausoleum is at a place called Anarkali in Labor, which is now used as a chm-ch. Different stories are told concerning the name Anarkali by which the mausoleum as well as the bazar in its vicinity is known. According to some, it was the name of a