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Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh (1608–1671) was a scholar, writer and historian. He was son of Mir Abdu-lla, Mushkin Kalam, whose title shows him to also have been a fine writer. Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh was elder brother and teacher of Muhammad Saleh Kamboh

Muhammad Saleh Kamboh

Muhammad Saleh Kamboh Lahori was a noted Calligraphist and official biographer of Emperor Shah Jahan and the teacher of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Though a widely read person, little is known of the life of Muhammad Saleh Kamboh other than the works he composed. He was son of Mir Abdu-lla, Mushkin...

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, the famous historian of Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan, , Persian: شاه جهان) (January 5, 1592 – January 22, 1666) Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan, , Persian: شاه جهان) (January 5, 1592 – January 22, 1666) (Full title: His Imperial Majesty Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan...

's court and teacher of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb

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Inayat-Allah Kamboh spent his early life in the military service of the Mughals

Mughal Empire

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and was a "Mir Munshi" (Inspector General) of Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan

and held a mansab of 800 horses. But he after a period of service, he retired from the world and lived besides the sacred shrine of Qutb-ud-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki at Delhi
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. Like his brother Muhammad Saleh, Inayat-Allah is also stated to be an accomplished Hindi singer

Inayat-Allah Kamboh wrote several historical works, but it was his collection of tales entitled Bahar-i-Danish (completed in 1651 AD), one of the most popular textbooks of Persian

Persian language

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, which had brought him the most fame. He died in 1671 AD at Delhi. Historian Muhammad Saleh Kamboh

Muhammad Saleh Kamboh

, younger brother of Inayat-Allah Kamboh has praised Bahar-i-Danish(Springtime of Knowledge) as a model of sophisticated workmanship. It became part of the syllabi of the Persian schools because it is mentioned in a manuscript-copy of Khulasatul Makatib, written in 1688. Thus it was used in all the Persian schools, and all educated men and women, both Muslim

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s and Hindu

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s, were acquainted with it in Mughal India. During British rule too, according to the education reports, it was taught in nearly all the schools and its style and idiom were regarded as the best models of composition (Reid 1852: 54).

His another important work is historical Takmilah-yi-Akbar-Namah which is a continuation of Abu-al-Fazl’s Akbar-Namah as Kamboh narrates the last four years of emperor Akbar’s reign. He also wrote two more books known as Dalkasha and Asharaf-al-Sarayaf. He died in 1671 and his Maqbara is located in Guband Kambohan wala on Empress Road near Railways Headquarter, Lahore.

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