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ABUL FAZL

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ABUL FAZL , See also:

wazir and historiographer of the See also:great See also:Mogul See also:emperor, See also:Akbar, was See also:born in the See also:year A.D. 1551. His career as a See also:minister of See also:state, brilliant though it was, would probably have been by this See also:time forgotten but for the See also:record he himself has See also:left of it in his celebrated See also:history. The Akbar Nameh, or See also:Book of Akbar, as Abul Fazl's See also:chief See also:literary See also:work, written in See also:Persian, is called, consists of two parts—the first being a See also:complete history of Akbar's reign and the second, entitled See also:Ain-i-Akbari, or Institutes of Akbar, being an See also:account of the religious and See also:political constitution and See also:administration of the See also:empire. The See also:style is singularly elegant, and the contents of the second See also:part possess a unique and lasting See also:interest. An excellent See also:translation of the Ain by See also:Francis Gladwin was published in See also:Calcutta, 1783-1786. It was reprinted in See also:London very inaccurately, and copies of the See also:original edition are now exceedingly rare and correspondingly valuable. It was also translated by See also:Professor Blockmann in 1848. Abul Fazl died by the See also:hand of an See also:assassin, while returning from a See also:mission to the See also:Deccan in 1602. 'The murderer was instigated by See also:Prince See also:Selim, afterwards See also:Jahangir, who had become jealous of the minister's See also:influence.

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