ʿAbd al-Bāqī "Bāqī" Nihavandi

Biographer

Bāqī spent his early career in the service of the Safavids, eventually becoming a vizier in the administration. He fell from the ruler’s grace shortly thereafter and migrated to Mughal India, where he entered the service of Ḫān-i Ḫānan Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, a general in Mughal Emperor Akbar’s army. Bāqī’s exact year of death is disputed but accepted to have occurred either in 1042/1632 or in or after 1046/1637.