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	The book covers events up to the beginning of the 14th year of ~~Muhmmad~~ Shah's reign, that is, 1732. It covers the history of the Mughal dynasty in detail, including their ancestor [[Timur]] and his successors. It is an important source of information for the reigns of [[Shah Jahan]] and [[Aurangzeb]].<ref name="MTH_1993">{{cite book \|author=H. Beveridge \|chapter=K̲h̲wāfī K̲h̲ān \|editor=M. Th. Houtsma \|editor-link=Martijn Theodoor Houtsma \|title=E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, ~~1913~~-~~1936 \|~~url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA868 \|year=1993 \|publisher=BRILL \|isbn=90-04-09790-2 \|pages=868–869}}</ref> Besides the Mughals, the book is an important source of [[Sikhism\|Sikh]] history during the period of [[Guru Gobind Singh]] and [[Banda Singh Bahadur]].<ref name="HS_1992"/>		The book covers events up to the beginning of the 14th year of [[Muhammad Shah]]'s reign, that is, 1732. It covers the history of the Mughal dynasty in detail, including their ancestor [[Timur]] and his successors. It is an important source of information for the reigns of [[Shah Jahan]] and [[Aurangzeb]].<ref name="MTH_1993">{{cite book \|author=H. Beveridge \|chapter=K̲h̲wāfī K̲h̲ān \|editor=M. Th. Houtsma \|editor-link=Martijn Theodoor Houtsma \|title=E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936 \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA868 \|year=1993 \|publisher=BRILL \|isbn=90-04-09790-2 \|pages=868–869}}</ref> Besides the Mughals, the book is an important source of [[Sikhism\|Sikh]] history during the period of [[Guru Gobind Singh]] and [[Banda Singh Bahadur]].<ref name="HS_1992"/>

	According to Khafi Khan, his account of the period after 1669 was based on his personal observations and the verbal testimony of other witnesses.<ref name="HS_1992"/>		According to Khafi Khan, his account of the period after 1669 was based on his personal observations and the verbal testimony of other witnesses.<ref name="HS_1992"/>
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	'''''Muntakhab-al Lubab''''' ([[Arabic language\|Arabic]] for "selected [records] of the wise and pure"<ref name="HS_1992"/>) is a [[Persian language]] book about the [[history of India]]. Completed around 1732, it was written by [[Khafi Khan]] in the [[Mughal Empire]] of present-day India. The title of the book is also transliterated as ''Muntakhab ul-Lubab'' or ''Muntakhab-i-Lubab''; it is also known as ''Tarikh-i Khafi Khan''.<ref name="BSA_1978">{{cite book \|author=B. Sheikh Ali \|title=History, Its Theory and Method \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_us8AAAAIAAJ \|year=1978 \|publisher=Macmillan \|page=396}}</ref>		'''''Muntakhab-al Lubab''''' ([[Arabic language\|Arabic]] for "selected [records] of the wise and pure"<ref name="HS_1992"/>) is a [[Persian language]] book about the [[history of India]]. Completed around 1732, it was written by [[Khafi Khan]] in the [[Mughal Empire]] of present-day India. The title of the book is also transliterated as ''Muntakhab ul-Lubab'' or ''Muntakhab-i-Lubab''; it is also known as ''Tarikh-i Khafi Khan''.<ref name="BSA_1978">{{cite book \|author=B. Sheikh Ali \|title=History, Its Theory and Method \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_us8AAAAIAAJ \|year=1978 \|publisher=Macmillan \|page=396}}</ref>

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{{short description|A Persian language book about the history of India}}
'''''Muntakhab-al Lubab''''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]] for "selected [records] of the wise and pure"<ref name="HS_1992"/>) is a [[Persian language]] book about the [[history of India]]. Completed around 1732, it was written by [[Khafi Khan]] in the [[Mughal Empire]] of present-day India. The title of the book is also transliterated as ''Muntakhab ul-Lubab'' or ''Muntakhab-i-Lubab''; it is also known as ''Tarikh-i Khafi Khan''.<ref name="BSA_1978">{{cite book |author=B. Sheikh Ali |title=History, Its Theory and Method |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_us8AAAAIAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Macmillan |page=396}}</ref>

== Contents ==

The book is divided into three volumes:<ref name="HS_1992"/>

# Volume 1 deals covers local dynasties up to the [[Lodi dynasty|Lodis]]
# Volume 2 covers the [[Timurid dynasty]] and the [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]] up to Emperor [[Akbar]], including the [[Sur Empire|Sur]] interregnum
# Volume 3 covers the Mughal period after the death of Akbar (1605)

The book covers events up to the beginning of the 14th year of Muhmmad Shah's reign, that is, 1732. It covers the history of the Mughal dynasty in detail, including their ancestor [[Timur]] and his successors. It is an important source of information for the reigns of [[Shah Jahan]] and [[Aurangzeb]].<ref name="MTH_1993">{{cite book |author=H. Beveridge |chapter=K̲h̲wāfī K̲h̲ān |editor=M. Th. Houtsma |editor-link=Martijn Theodoor Houtsma |title=E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA868 |year=1993 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=90-04-09790-2 |pages=868–869}}</ref> Besides the Mughals, the book is an important source of [[Sikhism|Sikh]] history during the period of [[Guru Gobind Singh]] and [[Banda Singh Bahadur]].<ref name="HS_1992"/>

According to Khafi Khan, his account of the period after 1669 was based on his personal observations and the verbal testimony of other witnesses.<ref name="HS_1992"/>

== Editions and translations ==

During 1768–1774, [[Mawlawi (Islamic title)|Maulvi]] Kahtr-ud-din edited and printed the book in [[Calcutta]]. English translations of its extracts appeared in [[Henry Miers Elliot|H. M. Elliot]] and [[John Dowson]]'s ''[[The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians]]'' (Volume VII), and [[William Erskine (historian)|William Erskine]]'s ''History of India under Babar and Humayun''.<ref name="HS_1992">{{cite book |editor=Harbans Singh |title=The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism: M-R |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hTYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA148 |year=1992 |publisher=Punjabi University |isbn=978-81-7380-349-9 |page=148 }}</ref>

== References ==
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