‘Afīf, the Historian. See Shams-i-
Sirāj ‘Afīf.
Aflāūn (Plato), 520 and n 7, 533.
Afrāsiāb, an ancient king of Tūrān,
52, 116 n 5, 180 n 2, 435. See also
the next.
Afrāsyāb, 410. Same as the above
q. v.
Africa, 167 n 4.
Afshār, name of a Turkī tribe, 572
and n 8.
Afẓalu-d-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn ‘Alī an-
Najjār, the famous poet Khāqānī,
583 n 4.
Āghā Muḥammad Bāqir Majlisī,
author of the Ḥaiātu-l-Qulūb, 110
n 3.
Aghānī, Kitābu-l, 527 n 3.
Āgīn-i-bālish, 606 n 4.
Agra, city of, 70 n 4, 341 n 1, 386 n
3, 408 n 1, 414, 419 and n 3, 420,
421 and n 4, 423, 425, 430, 431,
433, 435, 442, 444, 445, 446, 447,
451, 452, 453, 455, 456, 458, 459,
461, 462, 463, 464, 467, 472, 474,
476 n 5, 486 and n 6, 487, 488, 489,
490, 492, 493, 495, 513, 515, 518,
521, 526, 542, 547, 548, 549, 550,
551, 552, 556, 573, 597, 610, 617.
Agra road, 386 n 3.
Agra, Sarkār or district of, 70 nn 3
and 4, 425 n 4.
Āgra, Ṣūbah or province of, 365 n 8,
410 n 4.
Ahār, ancient town in the Buland­shahr district, 395 and n 4, 396,
546 and n 4.
Aḥāwan, a Bhagat boy, named
Mujāhid Khān by ‘Adlī, 557 n 8.
Ahl-i-Sunnah wa jamā‘ah, a name of
the Sunnīs, 626 n 2.
Ahl-i-Sunnat, a name of the Sunnīs,
626 n 1.
Aḥmadābād, capital of Gujrāt, 357
and nn 3 and 4, 454, 455, 635 and
n 6.
Aḥmad ibn ‘Abduṣ-Ṣamad, Khwājah,
47. Wazīr of Sulān Maudūd of
Ghaznīn.
Aḥmad Abu-l-‘Abbās, son of al-
Muwaffaq bi-llāh al-‘Abbāsī, 458
n 3.
Aḥmad Aiyāz, Khwāja-i-Jahān (q. v.),
Malik,—of the Maliks of Sulān
Muḥammad Tughlaq Shāh, 304,
315, 323, 328.
Aḥmad ‘Alī, Maulawī, editor of the
Muntakhabu-t-Tawārīkh of Budāonī,
92 n.
Aḥmad, son of Amīr Khusrū of Dihlī,
a poet, 339, 340.
Aḥmad Chap, Malik, Vazīr of Sulān
Jalālu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 238, 241, 243,
248 and n 6.
Aḥmad Dānyāl, father of Niāmu-d-
Dīn Auliyā, the celebrated Muḥam­madan Saint, 266 n 1.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan Maimandī, Vazīr
of Sulān Mas‘ūd, son of Maḥmūd
of Ghaznīn, 35.
Aḥmad Jilwānī the First, Sulān, ruler
of Baiāna, 414. See also under
Aḥmad Khān Jilwānī.
Aḥmad Junaid, Mullā, 486 and n 1.
Same as the next.
Aḥmad Jund, Mullā, 486 and n 1.
Same as the above.
Aḥmad Kathū, Shaikh, 357 and n 3.
Surnamed Ganjbakhsh, the name is
also written Khaṭṭu.
Aḥmad Khān, brother of A‘am
Humāyūn Lodī,—one of the Amīrs
of Sulān Ibrāhīm, son of Sulān
Sikandar Lodī, 434.
Aḥmad Khān Jilwānī, ruler of Baiāna,
405. See also under Sulān Aḥmad
Jilwānī.
Aḥmad Khān, the Governor of Karra
under Sulān Ibrāhīm, son of Sulān
Sikandar Lodī, 434.
Aḥmad Khān, son of Khān-i-Jahān
Lodī, styled A‘am Khān Humāyūn,
416 and n 11.
Aḥmad Khān, son of Khān-i-Khānān
Farmalī,—of the Amīrs of Sulān
Sikandar Lodī, 418 and n 11.
Aḥmad Khān Lodī,—one of the Amīrs
of Sulān Ibrāhīm, son of Sulān
Sikandar Lodī, 434.
Aḥmad Khān Sūr, one of the cou-
sins of Sher Shāh, assumes the
title of Sulān Sikandar, 542. See
under Sulān Sikandar Sūr.
Aḥmad Khaṭṭu, Shaikh, 357 n 3,
surnamed Ganjbakhsh. The name
is also written Kathu.
Aḥmad Lāchīn, Malik,—one of the
Maliks of Sulān Muḥammad
Tughlaq Shāh, 313.
Aḥmad, Malik, son of Amīr Khusrū
the famous poet of Dihlī, 339, 340.
Aḥmad, Malik, brother of ‘Imādu-l-
Mulk Maḥmūd Ḥasan, the governor
of Multān, 392.
Aḥmad, son of Muḥammad, son of
Sulān Maḥmūd Ghaznawī, 45 and
n 2, 46.
Aḥmad Niyāl Tigīn, Amīr, treasurer
of Sulān Mas‘ūd, son of Maḥmūd
of Ghaznīn, 36 and n n 6, 8 and 9.
Aḥmad Shāh, Sulān, the ruler of
Gujarāt, 357 n n 3 and 4, 379 and
n 2.
Ahrimān, the Satan of the Persians,
280 and n 3.
Aibak, soubriquet of Sulān Qubu-d
Dīn Lakbakhsh, the ruler of Dilhī,
77 and n 2.
Aimah grants of land, 496 and n 1.
Āīn-i-Akbarī, the, 8 n 3, 13 n and
n 1, 14 n 3, 15 n 2, 17 n 4, 19 n
and n 6, 23 n 3, 24 n 2, 25 nn 1
and 5, 26 n 2, 27 n 4, 28 n 2, 34 n 5,
36 n 10, 48 n 1, 52 n 3, 62 n 2, 65
n 1, 67 n 3, 69 nn 2 and 5, 71 n 3, 72
n 4, 76 n, 81 n 2, 82 nn 3 and 5,
84 n 2, 87 n 1, 91 n 2, 92 n 2, 95
n 5, 124 n 4, 125 n 3, 128 n 3, 129
n 2, 130 n 1, 132 n 3, 133 n and
n 2, 142 n 1, 147 n 1, 193 n 1, 221
n 3, 222 n 3, 223 n, 236 n 2, 248 n 2
249 n 5, 264 n 6, 265 nn 2 and 5,
266 nn 1 and 4, 304 n 4, 306 n 1,
330 n 8, 332 n 5, 353 n 1, 357 nn
3 and 4, 366 n 3, 377 n 4, 380 n 2,
384 n 3, 408 n 1, 410 n 4, 415 nn
4 and 7, 416 nn 3 and 13, 417 nn
7 and 8, 420 n 5, 8 and 9, 421
n 8, 422 nn 2 and 3, 424 n 3, 425 n
2, 432 n 7, 439 n 2, 449 n 2, 454 n
7, 464 n 5, 476 n 5, 479 n 5, 496 nn
1 and 8, 498 n 3, 499 n 3, 501 n 7,
503 n 3, 506 n 2, 507 n 1, 508 nn
7 and 8, 509 n 8, 515 n 4, 523 n
5, 536 n 6, 546 n 7, 557 nn 1 and
3, 567 n 3, 568 n 6, 571 n 9, 573
n 3, 580 n 5, 584 n 3, 587 n 7, 588
n 4, 590 n 5, 592 n 9, 597 n 5, 605
n 1, 609 n 5, 610 n, 611 n 3, 623 n
6, 626 n 3.
‘Ainu-l-Mulk Shihāb Multānī,—one
of the Amīrs of Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn
Khiljī, 264, 282, 283, 285, 290, 291,
292, 294, 312.
Aiyāz, Amīr,—one of the favourites
of Sulān Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, 32
n 1, 33 and n 3, 34.
Aiyāz, Malik, Khwāja-i-Jahān, (q. v.),
—of the Amīrs of Sulān Muḥam­mad Tughlaq Shāh, 304, 315.
Aiyūb, Khwāja, ibn Khwāja Abu-l-
Barakāt, of Māwarān-n-Nahr, a
poet of the time of Humāyūn, 632
and n 2, 633, 634, 635, 636.
‘Ajā'ibu-l-Makhlūqāt of al-Qazwīnī, 79
n 2.
Ajallu-l-jabhah, 515 and n 6.
‘Ajam (Persia), 233.
Ajāwan, town, 495.
Ajāwan,—a Bhagat boy to whom
Islem Shāh gave the name of
Mujāhid Khān, 557 n 8.
Ajl-l-jabhah, 516 and n 2.
Ajmīr, 69 and n 2, 70 and n 2, 120 n
4, 124, 129 n 2, 477.
Ajūdhan, town,—known also as Pāk
Pattan, 133 n, 233, 349 n 3, 355
and nn 1 and 3, 360, 362 and n 2
and 3, 363 n, 520 n 2. See also
the next.
Ajūdhya, town, 223 n. Same as
Ajūdhan, (q. v.).
Aiyāra, Daulat Khān, son of Sazāwal
Khān, one of the Amīrs of Islem
Shāh, 527, 531, 532 and n 2.