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Najib 203 Nami Najib-un-Nisa Begam, (Arabic characters), the emperor Akbar, and the wife of Ivhw4ja Hasan Nakshhandi. Najm Sani, (^^, a famous wazir of Shah Ism^'il Safwi I, whose proper name was Mirza Yar Aljmad. Ho was taken prisoner in a battle fought against the Uzbaks, and put to death on the 12th of November 1512 A.V., 3rd Eamazan, 918 A. H., by order of 'AbduUah Khan UzbaK, king of Turan. Najm-uddin 'Abu Hafs 'Umar toin-Muliammad, ^(Arabic characters), Najm-uddin ' Abu'l Hasan 'A 1 i b i n-D a u d, jjb 0-> L?^* i^'^'^^y) commonly called Kahkari, from Kahkar, a place in Chaldea, situated near Basra, where he was born in 1172 A. D., 668 A. H. He was a descendant of Zuber bin-Awam, and a famous iurisconsult, and a good grammarian. He led a very retired and austere life, and was one of the most celebrated professors of the Hanifian sect, in the college^ named Euknia, in the city of Damascus, where he died in 1274 • A. D., 645 A. H., aged 77 lunar years. ITajm-uddin ' A b r u, S li a h, jji^ i^^, a poet of Dehli, who flourished in the reign of the emperor Shah 'Alam. Najm-uddin Pahdani, J^'^x' c^i'^^'r'?^ orKahdani (Hafiz) author of an Arabic work entitled " Itahaf ul-Wara bi-Akhbar ul-Iiura." Najm-uddin Kubra, Shaikh, dj^^ a celebrated pious Musalman, who was slain at Khwarizm at the time when the troops of Changez Khan, the Tartar, invaded that kingdom in 1221 A. D., 618 A. H. Najm-uddin Muhammad 'Umar-al-Samarkandi, j_^j.viy.~.J| .i.*^ ^^jiiJlj^sJ^ author of a Medical work in Arabic called " Asbab wa 'Alamat." Najm-uddin Razi, ^^-'I'^'^i *J oj^*/o ^^jlj ^^icJ]f»s>^ commonly called " I'duUah" or the hand of God. Najm-uddaula, whose proper name ia Mi'r Phulwari, was the eldest son of Mir Ja'far 'AH Khan, Nawab of Bengal, Behar, and Urissa. He succeeded his father in February, 1765 A. D,, Sha'ban, 1178 A. H., and the same year the East India Company received from the emperor Shah 'Alam the appointment of Diwan of the three provinces of Bengal. Najm-uddaula died of the small-pox, after a reign of one year and four months, on the 3rd May, 1766 A. D., 22nd Zi-Ka'da, 1179 A. H., and was succeeded by his brother Saif-uddaula. Naki, Imam, (*^' lJ^j '"i'^e 'AH Naki (Imam). Naki Kamara, iJ^t a poet who died in 1622 A. D., 1031 A. H., and left a Diwan. Nakib Khan, iy^^«TH:^> the grandson of Yahia bin- 'Abdul-Latif, which see. Ifakhshabi, ts^^'*^^ poetical name of a person, who is the author of the "Tuti-nama" or Tales of a Parrot. When he flourished or when he died is not known. Na'man, Mir, J^'°, a poet who died at Agrah on the 4th of March, 1648 A. D., 18th Safar, 1058 A. H., and was buried there. Na'mat 'Ali Khan, o'^ author of a work called " Shah-nama," containing an account of the Muhammadan kings of India. Na'mat Khan, cs-'^ <>^**i, whose poetical name is 'AH, and who afterwards received the title of Danishmand Khan, was Comptroller of the Kitchen to the emperor 'Alamgi'r, and a constant attendant on his person. He is the author of a number of excellent poems ; one of which is called " Husn wa-Ishk," but that held in the greatest estimation is a satire on the conquest of Golkonda by 'Alamgii-, 1687 A. D., in which the author lashes not only the generals, but even the emperor himself, whose conduct in destroying the Muhammadan kings of Bijapur and Golkonda, while the Marhattas and other Hindu chiefs had exalted the standard of defiance, was much disap- proved of by many of the zealous Musalmans. The officers and soldiers were also much disgusted by inces- sant wars in the Dakhin, and the very great hard- ships thej' suffered during his campaigns in that country. This book goes by the name of the author, " Na'mat Khan 'AH," and has no other name. It is sometimes called " Wakaya Na'mat Khan 'AH." He also compiled a very excellent book on Oriental Cookery. The whole of his work is called " Khwan Na'mat," or the Table of Delicacies. He died in the reign of the emperor Bahadur Shah, 1708 A. D., 1120 A. H. Vide Danishmand Khan. Na'mat-uUah, iJ^J^ sXi'^**^ <J.x«, a Saj-j'ad of Namaul and a pious Musalman who is said to have performed miracles. He had reared a hawk by whose aid he procured his subsistence for several years. He afterwards proceeded to Akbarnagar commonly called Eajmahal in Bengal, where the prince Sultan Shujaa', the son of the emperor Shah Jahan then governor of that province, with several of his 'Umra, became his disciples. He died in the year 1666 A. D., 1077 A. H., at a place called Fi'rozpiir, east of Eajmahal where he had received a jagir from the prince. He was a saint and a poet. Na'mat-uHah, Khwaja, author of the history of the Afghans or early Abdali's, an account of which is given in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XIV, p. 445. It is caHcd " Tarikh Afghani," translated by Bernhard Dorn, Ph. D. &c. Na'mat-uHah Wali, Sayyad Shah Nur-uddin, «A/t^y jjl.^ a descendant of Imam Miisi Kazim. He was a learned and pious Musalman, and an exceUent poet. He is said to have performed miracles ; was the disciple of Shaikh 'Abdullah Yafa'i, but followed the tenets of Imam Shafa'i. He is the author of nearly 600 books and pamphlets. He died in the time of Shahrukh Mirza the son of Amir Taimur, 1424 or 1431 A. D., 827 A. H., aged 75 years, and ia buried at Mahan, a village of Kirman in Persia. Sayyad was his poetical title. Nami, k^'^^, a poet who died in 1533 A. D., 940 A. H. Nami, lT* j Me Muhammad Ma'sum Nami. Nami ul-Nami, (Arabic characters), surname of 'Abu'l 'Abbas ibn-Muhammad al-Dazami ^-Massiji, who was an excellent Arabic poet. He died 1008 A. D., 399 A. H., aged 90 years.