Khwaja Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad Bakshi (also spelled as Nizam ad-Din Ahmad and Nizam al-Din Ahmad) (born 1551, died 1621/1030 AH) was a Muslim historian of late medieval India. He was son of Muhammad Muqim-i-Harawi. He was Akbar's Mir Bakhshi. His work, the Tabaqat-i-Akbari, is a comprehensive work on general history covering the time from the Ghaznavids (986-7) up to the 38th year of Akbar's reign (1593-4/1002 AH).[1][2] The author quoted twenty-nine authorities in his work, some of which are entirely lost to us now.[1]
Nizamuddin Ahmad | |
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| Born | 1551 CE |
| Died | 1621 CE |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, Mir Bakhshi |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Late Medieval India |
| Main interests | General history, Islamic history |
| Notable works | Tabaqat-i-Akbari |
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edit- Brajendranath De; Baini Prashad (eds.) The Ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī of K̲h̲wājah Nizāmuddīn Ahmad : a history of India from the early Musalman invasions to the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Akbar by Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Muqīm; Calcutta : Asiatic Society, 1927, 1973 (3 vols.)
- Nizamuddin Ahmad, Khwajah. The ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī. Edited by Brajendranath De and M. Hidayat Hosein. 3 vols. Calcutta: Bibliotheca Indica, 1931–35. Translated by B. De. 3 vols. Calcutta: Bibliotheca Indica, 1927–39.
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- Tabakāt Akbarī, a translation from Volume V of The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, 1867
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