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 'Ishrati ( 122 ) Isma'il 'Ishrati, lsv^j poetical name of a poet who is the author of a small Diwan. His name is Alia 'All of Isfahan, he came to India, and on his return died at Mashad. IsMiyak, o'^^'? poetical name assumed hy Shah "VVali Ulltih of Sarhind, who was the grandson of Shaikh Ah- mad Sarhindi. He was a distinguished Theologian and Siifi. He died in 1748 A. D., 1161_A. H., and left several works. Shah 'Ahdul 'xizfz of Dehli, the most celebrated Indian Theologian in modern time, was one of his sons. Ishuri or Ishwari Singh., *-^*« cSLr^'j the son of Eaja Jai Singh Sawai, whom he succeeded to the raj of Jaipur in 1743 A. D. He died in 1760 A. D., and was succeeded by his son Madho Singh. Ishuri Parshad Narain Singh Bahadur csT*^' ^jljj i'f/J^ raja of Benaras (1869). Iskandar, j<^^-«l, Alexander the Great. Vide Sikandar Zulkarnain. Iskandar Manishi, ^^^-^^'O j>i'A>>«t, whom Stewart in his " Catalogue of Tippu Sultan's Library," calls Sikandar Hamnashini, is the author of the " Tarikh 'Alam 'Arae 'Abbasi," a history of the Persian kings of the Safwi dynasty, from Shah Isma'il I to Shah 'Abbas the Great, to whom it was dedicated in 1616 A. D., 1025 A. H. Islam Khan, c)^^ r^^':> title of Mir Zaya-uddin Husain Badakhshi, whose poetical name was Wala. He served under the emperor 'Alamgir, and was raised to the rank of 5000 with the title of Islam Khan. He died in the year 1663 A. D., 1074 A. H., at Agrah, and the chrono- gram of his death was -wi-itten by Ghani Kashmiri. He was the father of Nawabs Himmat Khan, Saif Khan and 'Abdur Eahun Khan. Islam Khan, u''^ f^', the son of Safi Khan and grand- son of Islam Khan Mashhadf, was Subadar of Labor in the time of the emperor Farrukh-siyar, and was raised to the rank of 7000 in the reign of Muhammad Shah. Islam Khan Mashhadi, Nawab, is'^'^ ii>^=^ z*^-"' vIJ'S (he is by some called Islam Khan Eumi, but that is a mistake). He was a native of Mashhad, and his original name was Mir 'Abdus Salam. In the time of Ja- hangir he held the mansab of 5000, and the Subadarl of Bengal ; and in the time of Shah Jahan was raised to the rank of 6000 with the title of JMotam-uddaula and held the appointment of second Bakhshigari and governor- ship of the Dakliin. He afterwards was again appointed governor of Bengal. In the 13th year of Shah Jahan he was raised to the rank of Wizarat with the title of Jumdat-ul-Mulk. Shortly after he was raised to the rank of 7000, and the Subadari of the Dakhin. He was^wazir to Shah Jahan and held the mansab of 7000, with the title of Islam Khan. He was some time before his death ap- pointed governor of the Dakhin where he died in the 21st year of the emperor, on the 2nd of November, 1647 A. D., 14th Shawwal, 1067 A. H., and was buried at Auranga- bad. Islam Khan Rnmi, i^'^jy eJ^^ |»^«'^ title of Husain Pasha, son of 'AH Pasha. He was governor of Basra, but being deprived of that situation by his uncle Muhammad, he left that country and came to India in 1689 A. D., 1080 A. H., where he was received by the emperor 'Alam- gir with the greatest respect, and honored with the rank of 5000 and title of Islam Khan. He was killed in the battle of Bijapur in the Dakhin on the 13th of June, 1676 A. D., nth Eabi' II, 1087 A. H. He had built his house at Agrah on a piece of ground consisting of four bigas and seven cottas, and a garden on a spot of three bigas and nine cottas, on the banks of the river Jamna near the Ghat called Tajara close to the fort of Agrah. Islam Khan, Shaikh, styled Nawab Ya'tzad-uddaula, was a grandson of Shaikh Salim Chishti, and son-in-law of Shaikh Mubarik, the father of the cele- brated 'Abu'l Fazl, whose sister, named Ladli Begam, he had married. He was appointed governor of Bengal by the emperor Jahangir in 1608 A. D., 1017 A. H. Nawab Ikram Khan was his son, and Kasim Khan his brother. The latter succeeded him in the government of Bengal in 1613 A. D., 1022 A. H., in which year Islam Khan had died. His remains were transported to Fathaptir Sikri where he was buried. Islam Shah, ^^'^ j.^.«t, vide Salim Sh£h. Isma'il, cU^+wtj or Ishmael, the son of the patriarch Abraham. Isma'il, ^fi*^ j*'^' (^^ the eldest son of Imam Ja'far Sadik, from whom the sect of Isma'ilis or Isma'ilias take theii' name. They maintain, that Isma'il, who was the eldest son, but died during his father's life, should have succeeded to the dignity of Imam, and not Musi Kazim, who was his younger brother, and became the seventh Imam. Hasan Sabbah was of this sect. Vide Isma'ilis. Isma'il I, Safwi, Shah, isy^-^ Ja*^! xl^^ the son of Sultan Haidar, was the first monarch of the Safwian dynasty of kings who reigned in Persia. He traced his descent from Musi Kazim the seventh Imam, who was descended in a direct ILae from 'Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad. Almost all his ancestors were regarded as holy men, and some of them as saints. The first of this family who acquu-ed any considerable reputation was Shaikh Safi-uddin, who had settled at Ardibel, and from whom this dynasty takes its name of Safwia or Safwi. His son Sadr-uddin Miisa, as well as his immediate de- scendants, Khwaja Ali, Shaikh Ibrahim, Sultan Junaid, and Haidar, acquired the greatest reputation for sanctity. Cotemporary monarchs, we are informed, visited the cell of Sadr-uddin. The great Taimur (Tamerlane), when he went to see this holy man, demanded to know what favour he should confer upon him. " Release those prisoners you have brought from Turkey," was the noble and pious request of the saint. The conqueror complied ; and the grateful tribes, when they gained their liberty, declared themselves the devoted disciples of him to whom they owed it. Their children preserved sacred the obli- gation of their fathers ; and the descendants of the cap- tives of Taimur became the supporters of the family of Safi, and enabled the son of a devotee to ascend one of the most splendid thrones in the world. Khwaja 'Ah', after visiting Mecca, went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and died at that city. His grandson Junaid, sat on the mas- nad as a spiritual gmde after the death of his father Shaikh Ibrahim ; and so great a crowd of disciples atten- ded this holy man, that Jahan Shah, the chief of the tribe of the Black Sheep, who at that time ruled Azurbejan, became alarmed at their numbers, and banished him from Ardibel. Junaid went to Daj'arbikar, whose ruler, the celebrated Uzzan Hasan, received him kindly, and gave his sister in marriage to Junaid. He afterwards went with his disciples to Shirwan, where he was slain in a conflict with the troops of the king of that province in 1456 A. D., 860 A. H. His son Sultan Haidar succeeded him, and his uncle, Uzzan Hasan who had now by his overthrow of Jahan Shah and Sultan Abu Said, become sovereign of all Persia, gave 'him his daughter in mar- riage. The name of this princess according to JMuham- madan authors, was 'Alam Shoa', but we are informed by