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 Makhlis Khan Alamgiri, a younger brother of Mulla Ahmad. Both the brothers, Sheikh Muhammad Bakar and Sheikh Haidar, served the Grovenment of Bijapur till the reign of Sikandar Adil Shah, when being ill-treated by the Minister of that monarch they applied to the Moghal Government for admission into the imperial service. Sheikh Muhammad Bakar received a command of 2,000 foot and 500 horse, and the post of the Dewani of Shahjahanabad and Kashmiri while Sheikh Haidar obtained a command of 1,500 foot and 300 horse, and was appointed to the office of Dewan-i-Fauj in the army of the Prince Muhammad Azim. They were befriended and esteemed by Asad Khan, the Prime Minister of the Empire, Zulfikar Khan, his son, sumamed Amiru-l-Umara and other great nobles of the court. Muhammad Bakar applied to the Emperor through the medium of Asad Khan for his transfer to the Dekhan, and was accordingly appointed to the office of Dewan of Tal-Kokan, formerly under the rule of the Nizam Shahi and Adil Shahi dynasties. When he grew old he retired from the imperial service and took up his residence at Aurangabad, where he died in 1715. He was an author of some repute, his two most famous works being (1)— "Allamatu-z-Zaman," a treatise on rhetoric, and (2)—"Fahamatu-l-Akran," treating of certain abstruse principles in philosophy. After the deaths of the brothers Moulana Muhammad Fassih Tabrizi changed their names into (1)—Raozatu-l-Anvar, and (2) —Zubdatu-1-Afkar.