Mir Ali Sir Tattavi, Qani (b.1728-d.1788) was a Sindhi Muslim historian born after the rule of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb

Aurangzeb

Abul Muzaffar Muhy-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir , more commonly known as Aurangzeb or by his chosen imperial title Alamgir , was the sixth Mughal Emperor of India, whose reign lasted from 1658 until his death in 1707.Badshah Aurangzeb, having ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for nearly...

. It has been said that he composed his first verses of poetry while still a boy, he studied the Fatawa-e-Alamgiri

Fatawa-e-Alamgiri

Fatawa-e-Alamgiri is a compilation of law created at instance of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb . This compilation is based on Sunni Islam's Sharia law, and was the work of many scholars, principally from the Hanafi school...

 and later began to write essays independently. Thereafter began a career as a scholar, poet and historian. He went on to produce a great number of works under the pen-name Qani, on a variety of topics, including: the works of Al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali

Abu Hāmed Mohammad ibn Mohammad al-Ghazzālī , known as Algazel to the western medieval world, born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia was a Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic....

, Rumi. His most prominent work was the Gift of the Generous (Tuhfah al-kiram) was his most famous work it dealt with a compendium of the lives of Sufis from the times of Muhammad

Muhammad

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 until the late 12th/18th century, an account of the martyrs of Karbala

Karbala

Karbala is a city in Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorate, and has an estimated population of 572,300 people ....

, and a work of general history.