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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Naqib Khan<br />
| image = Naqib Khan, Windsor.jpg<br />
| caption = Portrait of Naqib Khan, {{circa|1610-1620}}, [[Royal Collection]]<br />
| birth_name = Mir Ghiyas al-Din Ali Qazvini<br />
| death_date = 1614<br />
| notable_works = [[Razmnama]] <br /><br />
[[Tarikh-i Alfi]]<br />
| father = Mir Abd al-Latif Qazvini<br />
| relatives = [[Yahya ibn Abd al-Latif Hoseyni Qazvini]] (grandfather)<br />
}}<br />
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'''Mir Ghiyas al-Din Ali Qazvini''' ({{Langx|fa|میر غیاثالدین علی قزوینی}}; died 1614), known by his title '''Naqib Khan''' (نقیب خان), was a scholar and noble of the Mughal court during the reigns of emperors [[Akbar]] and [[Jahangir]]. He was involved in major literary products of the Mughal court, such as the ''[[Razmnama]]'' (a Persian translation of the Sanskrit epic ''[[Mahabharata]]'') and the work of history ''[[Tarikh-i Alfi]]''. He was valued by the Mughal court for his erudition in history and detailed memory.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Quinn |first=Sholeh A. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Persian_Historiography_across_Empires/GhIMEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=naqib+khan+mughal&pg=PA104&printsec=frontcover |title=Persian Historiography across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals |date=2020-12-17 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-90170-3 |pages=102–105 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Origins ==<br />
Naqib Khan hailed from [[Qazvin]], in [[Safavid Iran]]. He came from a scholarly family that had served the Safavids; his grandfather was [[Yahya ibn Abd al-Latif Hoseyni Qazvini]], who authored the ''Lubb al-Tawarikh''. Husayni lived in Iran during the rule of [[Shah Tahmasp I]] and was imprisoned by the latter. Sources suggest this was because of accusations that the family was Sunni, though Mughal sources depict Naqib Khan himself as religiously moderate. Husayni died around 1555, and ten years later in 1565 the family [[Emigration of Iranians to India during the 16-18th centuries|moved to India]] on the invitation of the Mughal ruler [[Humayun]]. By the time they arrived Humayan had died and his son Akbar was now ruler; Naqib Khan's father Mir Abd al-Latif Qazvini was appointed as a tutor of Akbar shortly after. The respect accorded to Naqib's Khan father by Akbar is recollected in Jahangir's memoir ''[[Tuzuk-i Jahangiri]].'' Jahangir also identifies Naqib Khan as being a [[Sayyid]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Morgan |first=David O. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Cambridge_History_of_Islam_Volum/ANiaBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=naqib+khan+mughal&pg=PT239&printsec=frontcover |title=The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 3, The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries |last2=Reid |first2=Anthony |date=2010-11-04 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-316-18436-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Naqib Khan received his title from the Mughal emperor Akbar. He was involved in the translations of several Sanskrit texts into Persian'''.''' The Mahabharata was the most significant in importance and size of all the Sanskrit texts included in the translation projects; over the course of one and a half years, Naqib Khan completed its compilation, titled ''[[Razmnama]]'', in 1584 with the assistance of five learned [[Brahmins]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=RCIN 1005038.al - Portrait of Naqib Khan |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/exhibitions/eastern-encounters/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace/portrait-of-naqib-khan |access-date=2025-08-21 |website=www.rct.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Arjomand |first=Saïd Amir |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Persianate_Historical_Sociology/DiNrEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=naqib+khan+mughal&pg=PA52&printsec=frontcover |title=Persianate Historical Sociology: Collected Essays |date=2025-07-09 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-74255-0 |pages=52 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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In the early 1580s he was appointed compiler of the ''[[Tarikh-i Alfi]],'' a vast millenial history. He was one of seven initial scholars assigned to the massive project, and the highest in seniority, reflecting his reputation at Akbar's court.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last=Anooshahr |first=Ali |date=2012 |title=Dialogism and Territoriality in a Mughal History of the Islamic Millennium |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jesh/55/2-3/article-p220_2.xml |journal=Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |volume=55 |issue=2-3 |pages=220–254 |doi=10.1163/15685209-12341235 |issn=0022-4995|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last=Gommans |first=Jos |last2=Huseini |first2=Said Reza |date=2022 |title=Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/neoplatonism-and-the-pax-mongolica-in-the-making-of-sulhi-kull-a-view-from-akbars-millennial-history/DF4FBCD1F408DBFD22B3F115B84527C1 |journal=Modern Asian Studies |language=en |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=870–901 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X21000044 |issn=0026-749X|hdl=1887/3420833 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><br />
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Early during Jahangir's reign, the emperor considered sending Naqib Khan as an emissary to the court of Portuguese king [[Philip III of Spain|Philip III]], but this did not materialize.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Flores |first=Jorge |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Mughal_Padshah/o3XsCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=naqib+khan+mughal&pg=PA16&printsec=frontcover |title=The Mughal Padshah: A Jesuit Treatise on Emperor Jahangir's Court and Household |date=2015-11-16 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-30753-7 |pages=15–16 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Death ==<br />
Naqib Khan died in 1614.<ref name=":1" /> In the ''Tuzuk-i Jahangiri'', Jahangir mentions that Naqib Khan was buried alongside his wife at the [[Shrine of Mu'in al-Din Chishti|dargah in Ajmer]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Historians from the Mughal Empire]]<br />
[[Category:Iranian emigrants to the Mughal Empire]]<br />
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