Abd-al-Baqi Nahavandi (born; Julaq, Nahavand, 1570 – died c. 1632 in India) was a Kurdish noble, historian and biographer of the Safavid Iran and later the Mughal dynasty.[1][2]
Biography
Abd-al-Baqi was born in Julaq near Nahavand, Safavid Iran in 1570, in land which his ancestors was given by Ismail I. His father Khaja Aqa Baba was a poet who went under the pen name Modreki and who was appointed vizier and nazer of Hamadan, while his brother Aqa Kezr was appointed vazir for Lahijan and later vazir and dewan of Hamadan. Abd-al-Baqi held himself positions in Hamadān, Semnan, Bestam, Deylaman, Lahijan, Yazd, and Abarkuh and later as a revenue officer in Kashan. After the death of his brother, Abd-al-Baqi was appointed vizier of Hamadan but ultimately fled Iran because people tried to turn the Shah against him. Having heard about the approaching army of Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan admirably when he was Kasan, he travelled to Khandesh around year 1614. Khan-i-Khanan welcomed him and gave him the position of revenue assignment and entrusted him in writing memoirs, lineage and the history of the empire. This oeuvre Maʾāṯer-e Raḥīm was finished in 1616. Until 1619, Abd-al-Baqi remained as amin of Deccan and Berar and died in 1632.[1]
References
- 1 2 ud-Din, Hameed (1982). "ʿABD-AL-BĀQĪ NAHĀVANDĪ". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume I/1: Āb–ʿAbd-al-Hamīd. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 104–105. ISBN 978-0-71009-090-4.
- ↑ "باقی نهاوندی عبدالباقی" [Abd-al-Baqi Nahavandi] (in Persian). Encyclopedia of the World of Islam. Archived from the original on 2017-02-24. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
Further reading
- Bosworth, C.E. (1995). "Nihāwandī". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume VIII: Ned–Sam (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-09834-3.