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'''Bakhtawar Khan Mohammad,''' or simply '''Bakhtawar''', (Persian: بختورخان ، محمد, born 1620 in Persia; died February 19, 1685 near Delhi) was a [[Persians|Persian]] historian, poet, official and later also personal advisor of the king at the court of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor [[Aurangzeb]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Foundation|first=Encyclopaedia Iranica|title=Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica|url=https://iranicaonline.org/|access-date=2021-04-28|website=iranicaonline.org|language=en-US}}</ref>
[[File:Tahmasp,_Humayun_Meeting.jpg|thumb|Mughal emperor Humayun at the court of the Shah of Persia Tahmasp I at the celebration of the Nawroz Festival.]]

== Early life ==
Like many Persian poets, traders and nobles in the [[Early modern period]], Bakhtawar's family migrated from Persia to the Mughal Empire,<ref>* Bakhtāwar Khān, ''Mirʾāt al-ʿĀlam: History of Emperor Awrangzeb ʿĀlamgīr'', ed. S. S. Alvi, I-II, Lahore, 1979.
</ref> where Persian-speaking people in particular were in great demand at the court and made up an important part of the nobility.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Haneda|first=Masashi|date=1997-10-01|title=Emigration of Iranian Elites to India during the 16-18th centuries|url=|journal=Cahiers d'Asie centrale|language=en|issue=3/4|pages=129–143|issn=1270-9247}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Persians in the Mughal Empire]]

== Literature ==

* S. S. Alvi, “The Historians of Awrangzeb: A Comparative Study of Three Primary Sources,” ''Essays on Islamic Civilization'', ed. D. P. Little, Leiden, 1976, pp. 57–73.
* Bakhtāwar Khān, ''Mirʾāt al-ʿĀlam: History of Emperor Awrangzeb ʿĀlamgīr'', ed. S. S. Alvi, I-II, Lahore, 1979.
* H. M. Elliot, ''The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians'', ed. J. Dowson, London, 1877, VIII, pp. 150–53.
* Mostaʿed Khan, ''Maʾāṯer-e ʿālamgīrī'', Eng. tr. Jadunath Sarkar, Calcutta, 1947, pp. 59, 61, 142, 155.
* Moḥammad-Afżal Sarḵoš, ''Kalemāt al-šoʿarāʾ'', Lahore, n.d., pp. 25–26. ''EI''<sup>2</sup> I, p. 954.
* Rieu, ''Pers. Man.'' I, pp. 124–27; III, pp. 890–91, 975.
* Storey, I, pp. 132–33, 517, 1012.

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