Nāṣirī, a poet of the time of Sulān
Shamsu-d-Dīn Iyaltimish, 92.
Nāiru-d-Dīn Abu-l-Khair ‘Abdu-llah
Baiẓāwī, Qāẓī, 6 n 4. See under
Baiẓāwī.
Naṣīru-d-Dīn Aḥmad Khaṭṭu, Shaikh,
surnamed Ganjbakhsh, 357 n 3.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Bughrā Khān, Sulān,
son of Sulān Ghiyāu-d-Dīn Bal-
ban, 135 and n and n 1, 186, 187,
218, 219, 220 n 2, 221 n 3, 222, 223
and n 1, 224.
Naṣīru-d-Dīn Bughrā Khān, 219 n 1.
See Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Bughrā Khān.
Naṣīru-d-Dīn Chirāgh-i-Dihlī, Shaikh,
contemporary of Sulān Fīroz Shāh
Tughlaq, 322, 323.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Ḥusain, the Amīr-i-
Shikār, one of the Maliks of Sulān
Mu‘izzu-d-Dīn Muḥammad Sām
Ghūrī, 74 n 1.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Ismā‘īl Fatḥ, Sulān,
314. See Ismā‘īl Fatḥ.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Khusrū Khān, the
favourite of Sulān Qubu-d-Dīn
Khiljī, 290. See Khusrū Khān
Ḥasan Barāwar bacha.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn of Lakhnautī, Sulān,
contemporary of Sulān Ghiyāu-d-
Dīn Tughlaq Shāh, 299.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Maḥmūd I., Sulān, son
of Sulān Shamsu-d-Dīn Iyaltimish,
91, 126 n 3.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Maḥmūd II., Sulān,
son of Sulān Shamsu-d-Dīn Iyal-
timish, of the Slave dynasty, 124,
125, 126 and n 3, 127 and n 1,
134, 135 n and n 1, 136, 139, 187.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Maḥmūd Shāh, ibn-i-
Muḥammad Shāh, of the Fīrūz
Shāhī dynasty, 348, 350 n 3. See
under Maḥmūd Shāh.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn of Mālwa, Sulān, con-
temporary of the Lodī dynasty of
Dihlī, 423, 424.
Nāṣiru d-Dīn Muḥammad Humāyūn
Pādishāh-i-Ghāzī, 451, 559. See
under Humāyūn.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Muḥammad Shāh, son
of Sulān Fīroz Shāh Tughlaq, 324,
337. See under Muḥammad Shāh.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Muḥammad Shah, Sul-
ān, 361. See Tātār Khān, son of
afar Khān.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Muḥammad, Malik, son
of Shamsu-d-Dīn Iyaltimish, 87
and n 2.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Nuṣtat Shāh, son of
Fatḥ Khān, son of Sulān Fīroz
Shāh, 350. See under Nuṣrat Shāh.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Qabāchah, Sulān of
Sind, one of the slaves of Sulān
Mu‘izzu-d-Dīn Sām Ghūrī, 79 and
n 3, 80, 88 and n 1, 90 and n 2.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn, son of Shamsu-d-Dīn
Iyal-timish, 94. See under Nāṣiru-
d-Dīn Maḥmūd.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Subuktigīn, ruler of
Kābul and founder of the Ghazui-
vide dynasty, 13 and n 1, 14 and
n 1, 15.
Nāṣiru-d-Dīn Ṭūsī, Khwāja, a cele-
brated mathematician and Shī‘ah
divine, 577 n.
Nāṣiru-l-Ḥaqq, a title of kings, 161.
Naṣīru-l-Mulk ‘Ādil Khān, one of
the Maliks of the Fīrūz Shāhī dy-
nasty, 354.
Nasr-i-Ṭā'ir, the constellation Eagle,
321 and n 3.
Nasrain-i-falak, the constellations
Eagle and Lyre, 630 n 1.
Naṣrat Khān, 129 n 2. See Nuṣrat
Khān, son of Fatḥ Khān and grand-
son of Sulān Fīrūz Shāh.
Naṣrat Khān, one of the Amīrs of
Sulān ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Khiljī, 249. See
under Nuṣrat Khān Jalīsarī.
Naṣru-llāh of Bangāla, Shaikh, uncle
of Shaikh ‘Alāī of Baiāna, 507.
Nāth, one of the Chiefs of Hind under
Sulān Mas‘ūd ibn Maḥmūd Ghaz-
nawī, 36 n 9.
Naubat, music played daily by a band
at stated hours, 498 and n 3.
Nauroz, the greatest feast among the
Persians, 166 n 1.
Naushahr, a name of the town of
Jhāīn (q. v.), 257.
Naushahra, the town of Nowshera,
465 and n 2.
Naushirwān, Chosroes I., son of
Kobad, King of Persia of the Sas-
sanide dynasty, 46 and n 5, 162.
Nawāfil, voluntary prayers, 488 n 7.
Nawār wife of al-Farazdaq, the
famous Arab poet, 287 n 2.
Nawāsa, a name of Sūkhpāl, the
grandson of Jaipāl, contemporary
of Sulān Maḥmūd of Ghaznīn, 20
n 4.
Naar Shaikh Jūlī or Juma‘ālī, one of
the court officers of Humāyūn,
601 and n 3.
Nazarenes, the, 207.
Nāimu-d-Dīn, Maulānā, one of the
Amīrs of Shīr Shah, of the Afghān
Sūr dynasty of Dihlī, 482 and n 3.
Nāzukī Marāghī, the Poet, contem-
porary of Sulān Mu‘izzu-d-Dīn
Sām Ghūrī, 75.
Nebula of the Pleiades, 630 n 4.
Nehroāla, a city of Gujrāt, 28 n 2.
Same as Naharwāla (q. v.).
Nellore (Nilāwar), town of, 265 n 5.
Nerimân le Pehlevân, 35 n 2. See
under Narīmān.
Newa Kishore Press, 487 n 6.
Ney, Marshal, 157 n 2.
Ney Elias, Tārīkh-i-Rashīdī, 305, 464
n 8. See under Elias and Ross.
Nijim Sani (Najm-i-ānī) Iṣfahānī,
one of the Amīrs of Shāh Ismā‘īl
Ṣafawī of Persia, 570 n 5.
Nikāḥ, marriage contract, 522 and n 5.
Nilāwar (Nellore), town of, 265 n 5.
Nile, the, 210.
Nīm tree (Melia azadirachta), 129
n 2.
Nimak, meanings of the word, 493 n 2.
Ni‘matu-llah of Baiāna, Saiyyid, one
of the learned and holy men of the
time of Sulān Sikandar Lodī, 424.
Nimrod, 154 n 8, 207, 234. See also
under Nimrūd.
Nīmroz, territory of, 13 n 1, 29.
Nimrūd, 155 n, 176. See also under
Nimrod.
Nīsān or Naisān, first month of the
Jewish year, 108 n 4.
Niārī Tūnī, a celebrated Persian
poet, 622.
Nīsāpur,—or
Nīshāpūr, a town of Khurāsān, 16 n 2,
34, 36, 42 and n 1, 43 n 1, 50 n 2,
54 n 1, 633.
Nīshtar, a lancet, 504.
Nīas, Sea of,—the Black Sea, 153
n 1.
Niwār, 495 n.
Niyāl Tigīn Amīr Aḥmad, treasurer
of Sulān Mas‘ūd ibn Maḥmūd
Ghaznawī, 36 and nn 6, 8 and 9.
Niyāzī Afghāns, the, 492, 493, 495,
497, 498, 499, 500, 508, 518, 520,
525.
Niām, a governor, one who orders
and directs, 612 n 1.
Niām, the water-carrier who rescued
Humāyūn from drowning, 461 and
n 3.
Niām, a youth mentioned in the
poetry of Maulānā Nādirī-i-Samar-
qandī (q. v.), 611.
Niām's dominions, the, 299 n 3.
Niām Astarābādī, a master in astro-
nomical poetry, 621, 626.
Niām Khān of Baiāna, one of the
Amīrs of the Lodī family, 443, 445.
Niām Khān, son of Sulān Buhlūl
Lodī, afterwards Sulān Sikandar
Lodī, 411.
Niām Khān, son of Ḥasan Khān Sūr
and full brother of Shīr Shāh, 467
n 5, 468, 495 and n 4.
Niām Shāh Baḥrī, ruler of the
Dakkan, 625 and n 3, 635, 636. See
also under Niāmu-l-Mulk Baḥrī.
Niām Shāhī dynasty of the Dakkan,
533 n 6.
Niāmī, nom de plume of Khwāja
Niāmu-d-Dīn Aḥmad, author of
the Ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī, 10, 45 and
n 1.
Niāmī,—or
Niāmī Ganjawī, Shaikh, the famons
Persian poet, 96 n 1, 114 n 2, 174
nn 2 and 3, 269 n 5, 298 and n 4.