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          Originally from khwaf in Khurasan, his history is often considered one of the finest examples of the Persian historical tradition..

          Khafi Khan

          Civil servant and historian of Mughal India

          Muhammad Hashim (c.

          1664–1732), better known by his title Khafi Khan, was an Indo-Persian historian of Mughal India.

          Muhammad Azam Shah lived in Ahmednagar.

        1. Raghunatha's life was cut short: Khafi Khan, History of Alamgir, trans.
        2. Originally from khwaf in Khurasan, his history is often considered one of the finest examples of the Persian historical tradition.
        3. For more than years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India.
        4. Khafi Khan, Khafi Khan's History of 'Alamgir, Being an English translation of the relevant portions of Muntakhab al-Lubab with notes and an introduction, ed.

          5. His career began about 1693–1694 as a clerk in Bombay. He served predominantly in Gujarat and the Deccan regions, including the final decade of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.[1] He authored the controversial and in part "patently fictitious" Muntakhab-al Lubab – a Persian language book about the history of India during the Mughal period, completed in 1731.[2] It has been a much studied, contested source of information about the Mughal history, particularly Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.[1][2][note 1]

          Biography

          Muhammad Hashim was given the title Khafi Khan (or Khwafi Khan) by emperor Muhammad Shah, because his ancestors came from Khaf (or Khwaf) in present-day Iran.

          The exact date and place of his birth are unknown, but he was most probably born in India. The