Muhammad Khwandamir
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Ghiyāś ad-Dīn Moḥammad Khwāndamīr, Khvandamir, or Khondamir or Hondemir (1475–1534) was a Persian Islamic scholar born in Herat
, in 880 AH or 1475 CE, a grandson and successor to noted historian Mirkhond
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vizier Mir Ali-Shir Navai. In 1527 the Great Moghul Babur
invited Hondamir to India, where he lived and died. Hondamir edited and completed 7th and 8th volums of the general history composed by his grandfather, and approximately in 1500 composed an extract from it "Holaset el-ehbar". Following the same pattern, in 1521 Hondamir composed for Ali-Shir Navai a three-volume general history entitled "Habib al-Siyar
", and brought it to his time. Another notable work was "Al-Destour Voser". In the European languages, other works of Hondemir were not published.
Herat
Herāt is the capital of Herat province in Afghanistan. It is the third largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of about 397,456 as of 2006. It is situated in the valley of the Hari River, which flows from the mountains of central Afghanistan to the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan...
, in 880 AH or 1475 CE, a grandson and successor to noted historian Mirkhond
Mirkhond
Mīr-Khvānd, Moḥammad ibn Khvāndshāh ibn Maḥmūd was a noted Persian-language historian of the fifteenth century. Born in 1433 in Bukhārā, present-day Uzbekistan, the son of a pious man belonging to an old Bukhāran family of sayyids, or direct descendants of Muḥammad, Mīr-Khvvānd grew up and died in...
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Biography
Hondamir, like his grandfather, belonged to the Herat literary circle of TimuridTimurid
Timurid may refer to:* Timur , also known as Tamerlane in English, a fourteenth-century conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia, founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty in Central Asia...
vizier Mir Ali-Shir Navai. In 1527 the Great Moghul Babur
Babur
Babur was a Muslim conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty of South Asia. He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother...
invited Hondamir to India, where he lived and died. Hondamir edited and completed 7th and 8th volums of the general history composed by his grandfather, and approximately in 1500 composed an extract from it "Holaset el-ehbar". Following the same pattern, in 1521 Hondamir composed for Ali-Shir Navai a three-volume general history entitled "Habib al-Siyar
Habib al-Siyar
Ḥabīb as-siyar is a historical work by Islamic scholar Ghiyāś ad-Dīn Moḥammad Khwāndamīr....
", and brought it to his time. Another notable work was "Al-Destour Voser". In the European languages, other works of Hondemir were not published.