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 'Ali 39 dome over the grave, and which was said to weigh 60 maunds or 420 pounds. The carpets fringed with gold, the golden lamps, and everything valuable were plundered by these necessitous and rapacious princes. AH Musi Eaza was poisoned by the khalif al-Mamun, consequently is called a martyr. 'Ali Muhammad Khan, 0'=^ ij-^, founder of the Rohila government. It is mentioned in Forster's Travels, that in the year 1720 A. p. Basharat Khan and Baud Khan, of the tribe of Rohilas, accompanied by a small num- ber of their adventurous countrymen came into Hindustan in quest of military service. They were first entertained by Madan Shah, a Hindu chief of Serauli, (a small town in the north-west quarter of Rohilkhand) who by robbery and predatory excursions maintained a large party of banditti. In the plunder of an adjacent village, Baud Khan captured a youth of the Jat sect, whom he adopted and brought up in the Muhammadan faith, by the name of 'AH Muhammad, and distinguished this boy by pre-emi- nent marks of paternal affection. Some years after, the Eohilas quarrelling with Madan Shah, retired from his country, and associating themselves with Chand Khan the chief of Bareli, they jointly entered into the service of Azmat Khan, the governor of Moradabad. After the death of Daud Khan, who was slain by the mountaineers in one of his excursions, the Rohila party in a short space of time seized on the districts of Madan Shah and 'AH Muham- mad Khan was declared chief of the party. From the negli- gence of government and the weak state of the empire of Dihli in the reign of Muhammad Shah, he possessed himself of the district of Katir (now called from the residence of the Rohilas, Rohilkhand) and assumed independence of the royal authority. He was besieged in March, 1745 A. D., Safar 1158 A. H., in a fortress called Bankar and 'Aoula and taken prisoner, but was released after some time, and a jagir conferred on him. The emperor Muhammad Shah died in April 1748, A. D. 1161 A.. H. and 'AH Muhammad Khan some time after him in the same year at 'Aoula, which he had ornamented with numerous public and private edi- fices. He left four sons, viz., Sa'd-ullah Khan, Abdullah Khan, Faiz-ullah Khan and Dunde Khan. Sa'd-ullah Khan succeeded to his father's possession being then twelve years old. Vide Sa'd-ullah Khan. 'Ali (Mulla), {J^ Muhaddis or the traditionist whose poetical name was " Tarl", died in the year 1573 A. D., 981 A. H., and Mulla 'Alam wrote the chronogram of his death, 'Ali Murad Khan, ■ii?'" (J^, a king of Persia of the Zand family. He succeeded to the thi-one after the death of Sadik Khan in March, 1781 A. D., and assumed the title of wakfl. He reigned over Persia five years and was independent of the government two years prior to this period. Persia during this time, enjoyed a certain degree of peace. He continued to confine his rival 'Ak^ Muham- mad Khan to the province of Mazindaran. He died in 1785 A. D. 'Ali Murad, (Mfr) present chief of Khairpur (1869). 'Ali Naki, 1^ ij^ f^'*', (Imam) was the tenth Imam of the race of 'AH, and the son of Imam Muhammad Taki who was the ninth Imam. He was born in the year 828 A. D., 213 A. H., and died on the 17th of June, 869 A. D. 3rd Rajab, 255 A. H. His tomb is in Sarmam-ae (which is also called Samira) in Baghdad, where his son Muhammad Askari was also buried afterwards. 'Ali Naki Khan, iJ-=^ ts"^ ij^^ (Nawab) the father- in-law and prime minister of Wajid 'Alf Shah, the last king of Lakhnau. He died at Lulchnau of cholera about the 1st December, 1871, 17th Ramzan, 1278 A. If. 'Alisher 'Ali Naki, ls^-* Diwan of Prince Murad Bakhsh, son of Shalyahi, whom ho slew with his own hand. 'Ali Tfawedi, iS'^i^ ^S^^; a poet and pupQ of Shah fahir Andjani, came to India, where he was patronized by Abul Fatha Husain Nizam Shah I. For some time he was in disgrace with his patron and changed his Takhallus or poetical name from Nawedi to Na-umaidi (or hopeless). He died in 1567 A. D., 975 A. II., at Ahmadnagar in the Dakhan. 'Ali Quli Beg, vide Shah Afghan Khan. 'Ali Shahab Tarshizi, cfjri^^ v'r* ls^^, a poet who was a native of Tarshish. He flourished in the reign'.of Shah-rukh Mirza, and found a patron in his son Muham- mad Jogi, in whose praise he wrote several panegjTics. He was co-temporary with the poet Azuri, who died A. D. 1462, 866 A. H. 'Alisher, J^^h j^'^^, (Amfr) surnamed Nizam-uddfn, was the prime minister of the Sultan Husain Mirza ruler of Khurasan. He sprang from an illustrious family of the Jaghtai or Chaghtaf tribe. His father Gajkina Bahadur, held one of the principal offices of government during the reign of Sultan Abiil Kasim Babar Bahadur, a descendant of Amir Taimur. His grandfather, by his mother's side, was one of the principal Amirs of Sultan Baikara Mii-za, the grandfather of Sultan Husain Mirza. AHsher at- tached himself originally to Sultan Abiil Kasim Babar Mirza, who was greatly attached to him, and called him his son. After his death he retired to Mash-had and continued his studies there ; which place he subsequently quitted for Samarkand, on account of the disturbances which broke out in Khurasan, and applied himself diU- gently to the acquirement of knowledge in the college of Khwaja Fazl-ullah. When Sultan Husain Mirza became uncontrolled ruler of Khurasan, he requested Sultan Ah- mad Mirza, at that time ruler of the countries beyond the Oxus, to send 'AHsher to him. On his arrival, he was received with the greatest distinction, and raised to the highest posts of honor. 'AHshcr's palace was open to aU men of learning : and notwithstanding that the reins of government were placed in his hands, in the midst of the weightiest affairs, he neglected no opportunity of improving both himself and others in the pursuit of knowledge. He was not only honored by his own Sidtan and his officers, but foreign princes also esteemed and respected him. After being employed in the capacity of diwan and prime minister for some time, love of studj' induced him to resign, and bidding a final adieu to pubHc life, he passed the re- mainder of his days in composing Turkish and Persian works, of which Sam Mirza recoimts the names of no less than twenty-one. Daulat Shah the biographer, Mirkhund and his son Khundamir, the historians, dedicated their works to him, and amongst other men of genius who were cherished by his liberaHty may be mentioned the cele- brated poet Jami. His collection of Odes in the Chaghtaf or pure Turkish dialect, which he wrote under the poetical name of Nawai, amounts to 10,000 couplets, and his parody of Nizami's five poems, containing nearly 30,000 couplets, is universally admired by the cultivators of Turkish poetry, in which he is considered to be without a rival. In the Persian language also he wi-ote a collection of Odes, under the poetical name of Fani or Fanai, con- sisting of 6,000 distiches. 'Alisher was born in the year 1440 A. D., 844 A. H., and died on Sunday the 6th of December, 1500 A. D., 15th Jamad I, 906 A. H., five years before his royal friend and master Sultan Husain Mii-za. Khundamir has recorded the year of his death in an affectionate chronogram : " His highness the Amir, the asylum of divine guidance, in whom all the marks of mercy were conspicuous, has quitted the thorny brake of the world, and fled to the rose-garden of pity. Since the