Khafi Khan
Khafi Khan | |
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| Born | Muhammad Hashim c. 1664 India (probable) |
| Died | 1732 |
| Occupations | Historian, clerk, civil and military official |
| Known for | Muntakhab-al Lubab (1731) |
| Notable work | Muntakhab-al Lubab |
| Title | Khafi Khan, Khwafi Khan, Nizam al-Mulkī |
Muhammad Hashim (c. 1664–1732), better known by his title Khafi Khan, was an Indo-Persian historian of Mughal India. 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. 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. It has been a much studied, contested source of information about the Mughal history, particularly Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.