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 Mirza 178 Moi'zz-uddin A. D., H20 A. H., where he died and where his tomh yet remains. He had two sons, the second of whom, Muham- mad Amin, on being apprised of the death of his father, left Persia, and about the year 1718 A. D. visited the court of the emperor Farrukh-siyar. He was appointed by this prince, governor of the fort of Agrah ; and soon rising to greater honours, he ultimately became the vice- roy of Audh, by the title of Burhan ul-Mulk Sa'adat Khan. Mirza Nasir, a poet who came to India from Mazindaran in the reign of the emperor Shah 'Alam the bhnd. His son Malik Muhammad Khan received the title of Nawab Samsam-uddaula Malik Muhammad Khan Diler Jang, from Nawab Zulfikar-uddaula Najaf Khan and after some time died iq Jaipur in 1804 A. D., 1219 A. H. Mirza Eustam, ^^■^J ^jy, a prince of Kandahar, being driven to difficulties by his own brothers and the Uzbaks, came to the court of Akbar in 1593 A. D., 1001 A. H,, and presented the king with the fort of Kandahar, for which the government of Multan was conferred on him, and he was ranked among the Amirs of the empire. He was the son of Mirza Sultan Husain the grandson of Shah Isma'fl king of Persia. Misa'ab, •t**^'*'^ brother of 'Abdullah ibn-Zuber on whose part he was governor of Basra in the time of the Khali'fs Marwan I, and his son 'Abdul Malik. He was killed in a battle fought against the troops of the latter, about the year 690 A. D., 71 A. H., and while 'Abdul Malik was at Kiifa during an entertainment, Misa'ab's head was presented to him ; upon which one of the company took occasion to say, " I saw Husain's head ia this same castle presented to 'Ubaid-ullah ; 'TJbaid-ullah's to Almukhtar ; Almukhtar's to Misa'ab ; and now at last Misa'ab's to your- self." This observation so affected the Khalif, that either to avert the ill omen, or from some other motive, he ordered the castle to be immediately demolished. Misa'ab had been 'Abdul Malik's iutimate friend before he was Khalif, but marrying afterwards Sakina the daughter of Husain, and 'Ayesha the daughter of Talha, by these marriages he was engaged in the interest of two families who were at mortal enmity with the house of Umayya. Miskin, cH!^**^} the poetical name of several poets of Miskin Shah, i^.^-*, a spiritual teacher of the chiefs of Karnal, in the Balaghat districts. Southern Hindustan, whose mausoleum stands a mile distant from the town of Karnal. He is the author of a Diwan. Mitti, t5*"*j a person of the tribe of Indians called Kalal, whose profession was to keep watch at the gate of the kings and noblemen of India, and to run before them in their retinue. Some of them were raised even to the rank of 1500. This man was employed by Nur Jahan Begam, was well-educated and became a poet in the time of Jahangfr. He is the author of a Dfwan. Mohan Lai, Munshi, Jil ujV* ij^^, the son of Pan- dit Budh Singh, the son of raja Mani Eam, of Kashmir descent. His father was a resident of Dehli. He was a student of the Dehli College and accompanied Lieutenant Bumes and Dr. J. G. Gerard in the capacity of a Persian Munshi to Persia in January, 1832, and wrote a Journal of his travels entitled " Journal of a Tour through the Panjab, Afghanistan, Turkistan, Khurasan and part of Persia," published at Calcutta in 1834. Mohan Lai, J 3/ ly'V'^ a Hindu who adopted "Am's" for his poetical name. He is the author of a Tazkira called "Anis ul-Ahbab," compiled in 1783 A. D., 1197 A. H. He informs us that when ' Asaf-uddaula the nawab of Audh saw the Tazkira of the contemporary poets of Hazin, he ordered him to compile a similar work on In- dian poets. Mohan Singh, son of Rao Karan, murdered by one Muhammad Shah about the year 1671 A. D., his women burned themselves alive with his corpse. Moi'zzi, LS'jr*^, vide Amir Moi'zzi. Moi'zz-li-din allah Abi Tamim Ma'd, iiyi'^^y*'^ the son of Isma'fl sumamed Al-Man- siir. He was the 4th Khalif of Barbary, and the first king of Egypt of the Fatimite dynasty who began to reign in the former country in 952 A. D., 30th Shawwal 341 A. H. The greatest achievement performed by this Khalif was his conquest of Egypt, and the removal of the Khilafat from Kairwan to that country in 970 A. D., 361 A. H. He subdued all Africa and built the city Al-Kahira in Egypt, commonly called Grand Cairo, and died after a reign of 24 years in 976 A. D., 19th Eabi' II, 365 A. H. Vide Muhammad Al-Mahdi. List of the kings of the Fatimite dynasty wlio reigned from Z^X to m A. K. in Egypt. A. D A H Moi'zz-li-dfn allah Abi Tamim Ma'd, reigned " " " ' 24 years 952 341 Al-'Aziz Billah Abu Nasr Tarar, reigned 21 „yecirS ggg Hakim-bi-amr allah Abu Mansur, reigned 25 996 386 lahir-h-azaz-dm allah Abii'l Hasan bin-Ha- •-. 1020 411 Mustanasir Billah Abu Tamim bin-Tahir, .... 1036 427 Mustaa'li Billah Abii'l Kasim Ahmad bin- Mustanasir, ' ^094 487 Amar be ahkam allah Abii 'Alf Mansur bin- Mustaa'H, hqO 495 Hafiz-h-din allah 'Abdul Majid bin-Muhammad bin-Mustazehr IISO 524 Al-Zafir-bi-'AbduUah Ismail bin-Hafiz ! 1147 542 Faez-bi-nasr allah Tsa bin-Zaflr, H62 547 'Azid-li-din allah bin-Yiisaf bin-Hafiz in whose time Egypt was taken by Salah-uddin (Azid died in 1173 A. D.), 1153 553 Moi'zz-uddin, wd'^l j*'", title of the emperor Jahandar Shah. Moi'zz-uddin, e^J'^-'t surname of Kaikubad the grandson of Sultan Ghayas-uddfn Balban. Moi'zz-uddin Husain Kart, Malik, '^^'^ u^:!'^! J** U^-^, the seventh king of the dynasty of Kart or Kard. He succeeded his brother Malik Hafiz in 1322 A. D., reigned over Hirat, Ghazni &c., about 38 years (some say only 12), and completely subdued the Sarbadals. He died about the year 1370 A. D., 771 A. H., and was succeeded by his grandson Ghayas-uddin the son of 'Ali. Moi'zz-uddin Muhammad G-hori, ui'^^ '^•^"'j vide Shahab-uddin Muhammad Ghori. Moi'zz-uddin Muhammad, Mir, i:rJ'^l_>*^ he was so exquisite a caligrapher that a thousand