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 Sharaf-uddin 255 Shirin Shakir Msir-uddin 'Abdullah one of the greatest saints of Turkistan. Sharaf-uddin Husain -was the son-in-law of the emperor Humayun and was governor of Ajmeir. He with another chief named Ahu'l Maali, had revolted at Nagor, before the Uzbak rebellion took place in Malwa, about the year 1661 A. D., 969 A. H., had defeated the emperor Akbar's troops, and advanced towards Dehli. They were afterwards driven back in their turn, and forced to seek for safety, the latter beyond the Indus, and the former to Ahmadabad in Gujrat where he joined the Mirzas at Barouch, in the year 1568 A. D., 976 A. H. Sharaf-uddin Panipati, i/^ ls.-^ cj^"^' '^^^^ vide Abu 'AH Kalandar. Sharaf-uddin Kami, Maul an a, tj^'l) iiH-^^^ author of a Dfwan and the " Hadaek-ul-Hakaek," which treats on metric and poetic compositions, and has been written in imitation of, or competition with, Eashid- uddin Watwat's Hadaek-us-Sehr. He flourished in the reign of Shah Mansur and died 1393 A. D., 795 A. H. Sharaf-uddin Shafrawa, iS'ijj^ o^^'^- ^j^, a poet of Isfahan, who flourished in the reign of Tughral III, and was cotemporary with the poet Mujir. He is the author of the work called " Itbak-uz-Zahab" which he wrote in imitation of Itwak-uz-Zahab of Zamakhshari. Sharaf-uddin, Shah, c;^ <^ ss'-^, vide Shah Sharaf-uddin. Sharaf-uddaula, ^^j'^^i a nobleman of the reign of the emperor Muhammad Shah. He is the founder of the Masjid situated in the Dariba Bazar at Dehli which he built in the year 1723 A. D., 1135 A. H. Sharaf-uddaula, Nawab, <-h^ v'y, ex prime-minister of Audh, was a native of Kashmir. His ancestors were " Eafugurs" or shawl-darners. At an early age he travelled to the Dakhin, where he ob- tained employment under the Nizam. He did not, however, remain long at Haidarabad ; the reputed splendour of the court of Lakhnau brought him to Audh where he found he had an uncle, the celebrated Maulwi Ahia, the residency Wakil during the reign of Nasir- uddin Haidar. On the accession of Muhammad 'AH Shah to the throne ia 1839 A. D., Maulwi Ahia was advanced to the post of prime-minister, vice Hakim Mahdi, deceased, and Sharaf-uddaula was appointed residency Wakil vice his uncle promoted. Maulwi Ahia dying soon after, Sharaf-uddaula succeeded him as prime- minister. He held the ofiice up to the time of Muham- mad 'All Shah's death which took place in May, 1842 A. D., when Amjad 'All Shah succeeding to the throne, he nominated his favourite, Amin-uddaula to the premier- ship, obliging Sharaf-uddaula to retire. By the Resident personally the nawab was so much esteemed that, after he lost office, he, the Eesident, deemed him the fittest man in Lakhnau to manage the very responsible and important concerns of the Husainabad Imambarah, of which he induced the king to make him " Wasikadar," or stipendiary. Sharaf-uddaula was known by every one to be the most sincerely attached friend the British had in Audh. He was, therefore, looked upon with much jealousy and rancour by all the courtiers, but especially by Nawab 'Ali Naki Khan, the father-in-law and prime • minister of Wajid 'AH Shah the last king. Viewing him always as his rival, 'AH Naki often contemplated his ruin, and at one time in league with Nawab Wasi 'AH Khan, one of the famous abominables of the court of Lakhnau, he would have compassed his end, as he had succeeded in getting the king to issue an order of banish- ment against Sharaf-ud daula, with his whole famUy, but for the timely interference of the Eesident who had the order revoked. During the early part of the rebellion (in 1857) the insurgents surrounded his house, insisting that he should become prime-minister of the rebel government. He refused and tried to excuse himself in every way, but they forcibly installed him in the office, which he knew he only nominally held, since Mammu Khan was the ruling spirit with the Begam. On the arrival of General Havelock's force for the reUef of the Lakhnau garrison, he was in the Keisar Bagh and re- ceived a bullet in the shoulder. "When the final grand attack was made on the city by the Commander-in-Chief, which caused the Begam and her party to remove to the Musa Bagh, Sharaf-uddaula took advantage of the con- fusion and skulked behind, and endeavoured to steal out of the city, when he was recognised by some sepoys, who bound him with cords, took him to Maulwi Ahmad-ullah Shah, who after starving him for four days had him put to death. Sharif Jurjani, Mir or Sayyad, i^'^^J^ ^.j^ j^, whose full name is Sayyad Sharif 'Alf bin-Muhammad, is the author of the " Hashia Kashshaf" and " Hashia Tafsir Anwar-ut-Tauzfl," also of an Arabic work on philosophy called " 'Adab-ul-Sharif," and the marginal notes on the " Sharah Matla-ul- Anwar" and on the " Mawakif Azdia" a work on Jurisprudence in Arabic. He also wrote a Commentary on the Sirajia of Sajawandf, which he named " Sharifia." He was born in 1339 A. D., 740 A. H., and died in July, 1413 A. D., 6thEabf II, 816 Sharif Khan Amir-ul-'Umra, i/^'^^j^^ iJ-=^ ^j^> son of Khwaja Abdus Samad, a nobleman of the reign of the emperor Jahangir, who in the first year of his reign conferred on him the rank of 5,000 and appointed him governor of Haidarabad in the Dakhin where he died after some years. He was an excellent poet and has left a Diwan. His poetical name was Farsi. Sharif Muhammad, '^^'^ '^^j^, author of the Persian work on J urisprudence called " Fatawa Faeroz Shahi," dedicated to Firoz Shah, king of Dehli. Sharifi Maulana, i^^j^ ^'^"^j^, a native of Balkh who was a physician, poet and a good musician. He has written several panegyrics in praise of the king of Badakhshan. ' Sharif-uddin Muhammad AbduUah-al-Mousali- al-Basri, ^J^'^J*^ AiJ,'.>.A£ cy*^ ^i'^h author of a Diwan which he caUed " Diwan Murtaza AH." Sharm, ^j^, vide Shams-un-Nisa Begam, Shatibi, i^^^^^, vide Abu Muhammad Shatibi. Shayek, {J-^)^, vide Shaek. Shayurghamish, Mirza, '^y* a son of Shahrukh Mirza. Shirazi, LSj^J^, an anthor who wrote a Commentary on the Tahrir-ul-Majasti of Is-hak bin-Husain, and named it "Hall Mushkilat Majastf." Shirin, t^'^^. This word or name which signifies in Persian, sweet, charming or agreeable, is the name of a lady well-known throughout the East. Some call her Mary and others Irene. The Greeks only describe her as a Eoman by birth, a Christian by religion ; but she ia represented as the daughter of the emperor Maurice in