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Fasl I. Contains a short sketch of the history of Jaunpur. 
Fasl II. Notices of eminent men. This section contains quotations 
from such well-known works as the Tarikh-i-Firuz-shahi and the 
Tabaqat-i-Nasiri. 
Fasl III. An account of the Foundation of the Madrasah of 
Jaunpur, and the methods adopted for bringing together in that city 
students and scholars. 
Khdtima. Concerning the author. 
It is this Khdtima or “conclusion” which contains the fresh light 
on our author to which I have referred, and which forms the staple of 
the present article. In it Khayr-ud-Din also gives a complete list of his 
works up to the time of writing, that is A.D. 1801 (A.H. 1216). The 
list is a long one, amounting to upwards of 30 works, and concerning 
most branches of Mohammedan lore. It is strange that so few of them 
should have reached posterity. Of all these works, the one whose dis¬ 
appearance (or perhaps non-appearance, for he speaks of it as incom¬ 
plete) is to be most regretted is the Kitab-l- l Alam-Ashub,“ A History of 
Hindustan from the time of the advent of the great King of Iran down 
to the time of Amir-ul-tTmara Mirza Najaf Khan.” 
I have decided to print the text of this Khatima and in this place 
merely to sum up the principal events in the author’s career which are 
to be derived from the available sources above enumerated. 
Faqir Khayr-ud-Dln Muhammad was born in Allahabad in A.D. 
1751. He began his studies at the age of eleven, and completed his. 
course in five years, under the instruction of Sayyid Muhammad Husayn 
Musavl of Aurangabad, who was held in the highest esteem, we are 
told, by rich and poor in Allahabad. In A.D. 1771 his master died, 
and Khayr-ud-Dln proceeded to Jaunpur to study under Maulana 
Muhammad ‘Askari, with whom he read many works. In Jaunpur he 
also gave lessons and began at his time to write books. At the end 
of sixteen months he returned to Allahabad, where he began to teach 
in his own Madrasah. Shortly after this, however, in A.D. 1772, the 
district of Allahabad was placed by the “Great Sahibs,” under the 
charge of Nawwab Shuja‘-ud-Dawla, who confiscated the stipends and 
endowments of all teachers and shaykhs: and Khayr-ud-Din was conse¬ 
quently compelled to close his Madrasah. He threw himself on the 
mercy of the “Great Sahibs” who took him into their employ and 
charged him with important duties. The next twenty years of his life 
he seems to have spent partly in the service of Shah ‘Alam, partly in 
the employ of various English and native officials, and partly in teach¬ 
ing in Allahabad or Benares. In 1783-4 we find him employed as con¬ 
fidential agent by Mr. James Anderson, the British Resident in the camp 
