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  Was Abul Fazl a Sycophant? -- Itihaas © Akhilesh Mithal, 1999
She has, under the auspices of the Indian Council of Historical Research, edited selected translations of the legendary Insha or collection of prose masterpieces of Abul Fazl which have been taught as model and text for nearly 400 years as part of the Persian studies syllabus.
Abul Fazl further records his feelings thus: "I too had been raised by His Majesty from the dark recesses of the lane beneath contempt to a post of prominence and had become conspicuous in the world.
Abul Fazl informs us that the experienced commander Zain Kh-an Koka who was already in Swat had asked for reinforcements.
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  Abul Fazl - LoveToKnow 1911
ABUL FAZL, wazir and historiographer of the great Mogul emperor, Akbar, was born in the year A.D. His career as a minister of state, brilliant though it was, would probably have been by this time forgotten but for the record he himself has left of it in his celebrated history.
The Akbar Nameh, or Book of Akbar, as Abul Fazl's chief literary work, written in Persian, is called, consists of two parts - the first being a complete history of Akbar's reign and the second, entitled Ain-iAkbari, or Institutes of Akbar, being an account of the religious and political constitution and administration of the empire.
Abul Fazl died by the hand of an assassin, while returning from a mission to the Deccan in 1602.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Abul_Fazl   (211 words)

  
 Notes to Akbar’s Dream - The Death of OEnone, and Other Poems - Alfred Tennyson, Book, etext
In these discussions Abul Fazl became a great power, and he induced the chief of the disputants to draw up a document defining the ‘divine Faith’ as it was called, and assigning to Akbar the rank of a Mujahid, or supreme khalifah, the vicegerent of the one true God.
Abul Fazl was finally murdered at the instigation of Akbar’s son Salim, who in his Memoirs declares that it was Abul Fazl who had perverted his father’s mind so that he denied the divine mission of Mahomet, and turned away his love from his son.
Abul Fazl relates that ‘one night the Ibadat-khana was heightened by the presence of Padre Rodolpho, who for intelligence and wisdom was unrivalled among Christian doctors.
whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/deathofoenone/akbarsdreamnotes.html   (949 words)

  
 Akbarnamah : Banglapedia Article:Boi-Mela
Akbarnamah written by Abul Fazl Allami, a friend, courtier and a court-historian of Emperor akbar (1556-1605 AD), is by far the greatest work in the whole series of historical literature in India.
Abul Fazl's father Shaikh Mubarak and elder brother Shaikh Faizi exerted influence upon the emperor.
Abul Fazl, himself a friend of the emperor, was sometimes biased in giving accounts of the conquests and other achievements of Akbar.
www.boi-mela.com /Banglapedia/ViewArticle.asp?TopicRef=142   (584 words)

  
 Akbar - ToseekA Search Results
In addition to his military gains, the emperor solidified his rule by repealing the jizya tax on non-Muslims and courting the favour of the powerful Rajput caste, to the extent of marrying Rajput princesses.
Abul Fazal, and even the hostile critic Badayuni, described him as having a commanding personality.
He was fearless in the chase as well as in the field of battle, and, "like Alexander of Macedon, was always ready to risk his life, regardless of political consequences".
www.toseeka.com /onlineencyclopedia/Akbar   (3771 words)

  
 Abul Fazl's Brilliance -- Itihaas © Akhilesh Mithal, 1999
There are so many aspects of great and extraordinary brilliance in the personality of Shaikh Abul Fazl Allami that we can keep ourselves amused and entertained with one facet at a time.
Abul Fazl was born second son to Shaikh Mubarak (January 14, 1551) in a family renowned for its learning and an almost total absorption in the pursuit of knowledge in preference to all other quests.
Abul Fazl pared away the worm eaten portions and repaired the book by adding new clean handmade paper.
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 Persian Literature in Translation - The Ain-i-Akbari, Volume 3: section 3
Abul Fazl had the wit or good fortune to escape imposition and his description of the Nine Schools of Philosophy, has the merit of being, as far as it goes, scrupulously precise.
But this is what Abul Fazl and Muḥsan i Fání—to mention only these two—explicitly profess to have done, and Sir William Jones' sweeping censure may be tempered by his opinion of the latter writer in another passage of his works where he calls him a learned and accurate author.
The coincidence strength­ens the strong probability of Abul Fazl's use of Albírúní's work, but he wisely refrained from undertaking a task which, I suspect, was beyond him and would have indicated too plainly the source of his erudition.
persian.packhum.org /persian/pf?file=00702053&ct=3   (1468 words)

  
 Asia Food Features
Abul Fazl was an Indian-born Muslim, a scholar and a diplomat.
If he did not approve of a dish, he would, without uttering a word, indicate that his son taste it, and with great disdain the dish was passed to the superintendent to be removed and improved upon or never to be presented again.
When Abul Fazl was sent to the Deccan to relieve Akbar's drunken son from his command, he set off with 3,000 men.
www.asiafood.org /moghul_his_7.cfm   (433 words)

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