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A. S. Beveridge —Khwdjah Muhammad Muqlm. 
[No. 2, 
Notes concerning Khwdjah Muhammad Muqlm Harawl , the father of 
Ni^amu-d-din Ahmad Ba khsh j .— By Annette S. Beveridge 
(Communicated hy the Philological Secretary). 
[Read, March 1895.] 
As everything relating to the author of the Tabaqdt possesses 
interest, 1 venture to ask permission to “ hang up ” in the critical air 
of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,— for confirmation or 
disproof,— a suggestion about the record of his father’s life which, if 
verified, will be of use in a second edition of Mr. Blochmann’s Ain. 
It appears to me that there is good ground for believing “ Khwdjah 
Muqlm , the son of Mlrakl ” (525, No. 401), to be the father of Nizdmu-d- 
dln, Khwdjah Muhammad Muqlm TlarawlJ 
The considerations which seem to me to support my suggestion are 
as follows :— 
(a) Mr. Blochmann, basing his statement on the Akbarndmah, says 
that Khwajah Muqlm (No. 401), the son of Miraki, was made a bakh¬ 
shl in 999 H. 
Abii-1-fazl names Muqim of Khurasan in his list of ba khsh ls (528), 
and Mr. Blochmann identifies this man with the “ son of Miraki ” by 
prefixing “ No. 401 ” to his name, in this list. 
Nizamu-d-din says when speaking of the appointment of the bakhshl 
of 999 H. ( Tabaqdt , Lakhnau ed., 374) “ They appointed Khwajah Mu. 
Muqim, an old family servant and who had been brought up in this 
Court, ( khanazad ) to the office of ba khsh l of the army.” 
Of all the Muqims of this period, there is mentioned in the various 
sources — so far as I have been able to trace—one man only who 
answers to the description given by Abu-l-fazl and Nizamu-d-din Ahmad 
of the bakhshl of 999 H., as being at once, a Khurasani, an old servant, 
1 All page references are to Mr. Blochmann’s Ain unless otherwise assigned. 
For all the many references to the Persian which these notes have required. 
I am indebted to Mr. Beveridge, as well as for counsel, and the multiform help 
which comes from discussion of “ points.” For all errors, I only am responsible. 
