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| honorific_prefix = Kokaltash<br />
| name = Mirza Aziz Kokah<br />
| honorific_suffix = Khan-i-Azam,<br />
Subahdar Of Gujarat <br />
Governor of Bihar<br />
| image = Mirza Aziz Koka.png<br />
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| birth_date = 1542<br />
| death_date = 1624 (aged 81-82) <br> [[Agra Fort]], [[Mughal Empire]], now [[India]]<br />
| children = Habiba Banu Begum<br />
| parents = [[Ataga Khan]] {{small|(father)}} <br> Jija Anga {{small|(mother)}}<br />
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[[File:Entrance on the east face of the Chausath Khamba.JPG|thumb|The Chausath Khamba, tomb of Aziz Kokah]]<br />
'''Mirzā `Azīz Kokah''' ({{lang-fa|میرزا عزیز کوکه}}; {{circa|1542|1624}}), also known as '''Kokaltāsh''' ({{lang-fa|کوکلتاش}}) and by his [[sobriquet]] '''Khān-i-A`zam''' ({{lang-fa|خان اعظم}} ''The Greatest Khan''), was the foster brother of [[Akbar]], who remained one of the leading nobles at the courts of the [[Mughal emperor]]s [[Akbar]] and [[Jahangir]].<ref>Lefèvre, Corinne. "ʿAzīz Koka, Mirzā ." Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Edited by: Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. 14 August 2013.</ref> He was also the [[Subahdar]], governor of the [[Subah (province)|Subah]] (province) of [[Gujarat]].<ref name="ChatterjeeHawes2008">{{cite book|author1=Kumkum Chatterjee|author2=Clement Hawes|title=Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in Early Modern Encounters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUOGQSpUmwgC&pg=PA52|accessdate=16 August 2013|year=2008|publisher=Associated University Presse|isbn=978-0-8387-5694-2|pages=52–}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Early life===<br />
He was the son of Shams ud-Din [[Ataga Khan]], the Prime Minister of Akbar, and Akbar's [[wet-nurse]], Jiji Anga, hence his Turkish sobriquet “Koka” or “foster-brother.” <ref name="Mukhia2004">{{cite book|author=Harbans Mukhia|title=The Mughals of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZYsjlmtSmAC&pg=PA55|accessdate=16 August 2013|year=2004|publisher=Wiley India Pvt. Limited|isbn=978-81-265-1877-7|pages=55–}}</ref><ref>[http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/mirza-aziz-koka-SIM_5229 Burton-Page, J.. "Mīrzā ʿAzīz “Kōka”."] ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. 16 August 2013.</ref> Ataga Khan was murdered by [[Adham Khan]], the jealous son of [[Maham Anga]], another of Akbar's wet-nurses, in 1562. Thereafter, Aziz Koka built his father's tomb next to [[Nizamuddin Auliya]] in Delhi in 1566-67. Adham Khan, on the other hand, was executed on the orders of Akbar.<ref name="Asher1992">{{cite book|author=Catherine B. Asher|title=Architecture of Mughal India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ctLNvx68hIC&pg=PA43|accessdate=15 August 2013|date=24 September 1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26728-1|pages=43–}}</ref><br />
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After Akbar conquered [[Gujarat]], he made Aziz Koka the governor of the new province. In 1573, the Gujaratis rebelled and besieged Aziz Koka in [[Ahmedabad]]. But he defended the city until Akbar's army came to his relieve. In 1579, he was made governor of [[Bihar]] and ordered to quell a rebellion in [[Bengal]]. however, he did not take action until the next year, when the rebels began to take Bihar as well. He was similarly reluctant when ordered to conquests in the [[Deccan Plateau#History|Deccan]] in 1586.<br />
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Akbar was very lenient to Aziz Koka, his foster-brother and childhood playmate. Nevertheless, Aziz Koka did not obey Akbar, his emperor, readily. He was especially opposed to Akbar's law to brand all horses, and could not accept [[prostration]] in Akbar's new court ritual. When Aziz Koka was summoned to court in 1592, he went on [[Hajj|pilgrimage]] to [[Mecca]] instead. There he spent much money to pious causes for a year and a half, until Akbar forgave him, and restored him in his positions.<ref>Nawwāb Ṣamṣāmuddaula Shāh Nawāz Khān and ‘Abdul Ḥayy: ''The Maāthir ul-Umarā'', translated into English by H. Beveridge, revised, annotated and completed by Baini Prashad, Kolkata: Asiatic Society, 1941, rep. 2003, p. 319-334.</ref><br />
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===Later life===<br />
During the rule of [[Jahangir]], however, he lost many positions, as he along with Raja [[Man Singh I]] supported the rebellion of [[Khusrau Mirza]], the eldest son of Jahangir (one of his daughters was Khusrau's wife). Khusrau's rebellion was crushed in 1606. He was first blinded and then imprisoned. Though Jahangir never found any direct evidence against Man Singh and Aziz Koka to have them executed, he however took away much of their powers, and chided them in the ''[[Jahangirnama]]''. Later in life, Aziz Koka regained his position, but his clan could never regain the royal patronage, as they enjoyed during his father's lifetime.<ref name="Faruqui2012">[[#Fa|Faruqui, p. 227]]</ref><br />
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His daughter, Habiba Banu Begum was married to the fourth son of Akbar, Mughal prince [[Sultan Murad Mirza]] in 1587; and had two sons, Rustam Mirza (b. 1588) and Alam Mirza (b. 1590).{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}<br />
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He built his tomb, [[Chausath Khamba]], literally 64 pillars, during 1623–24, near the [[Nizamuddin Dargah]] shrine complex in Delhi.<ref>{{cite web| title = Mirza 'Aziz Kotaltash Tomb| publisher = ArchNet Digital Library| url = http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=26| accessdate = 2013-08-15| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20121210074456/http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=26| archivedate = 2012-12-10}}</ref><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book|author=Munis D. Faruqui|title=The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vhbDSXbbksC&pg=PA227|accessdate=15 August 2013|date=27 August 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-02217-1|ref=Fa}}<br />
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