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'''Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh''' (1608–1671) was a scholar, writer and historian. He was son of Mir Abdu-lla, ''Mushkin Kalam'', whose title shows him to also have been a fine writer.<ref>[[The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians]], 1877, p 123, Henry Miers Elliot, John Dowson</ref><ref name="Jahan_131">Shah Jahan, 1975, p 131, Henry Miers Elliot - Mogul Empire.</ref> Shaikh Inayat-Allah Kamboh was elder brother and teacher of [[Muhammad Saleh Kamboh]], the famous historian of [[Shah Jahan]]'s court and teacher of Mughal Emperor [[Aurangzeb]].<ref>Modern Asian Studies, 1988, p 308, Cambridge University Press Online Journals, JSTOR (Organization) - Asia.</ref><ref name="Jahan_131"/><ref>Muhammad Saleh Kamboh was ''Shahi Dewan (Minister)'' with Governor of [[Lahore]].</ref> He died in 1671 AD at Delhi,<ref>The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan: An Abridged History of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, Compiled by His Royal Librarian: the Nineteenth-century Manuscript Translation of A.R. Fuller (British Library, Add. 30,777), 1990, p xxviii, Inayat Khan, Wayne Edison Begley, Z. A. Desai, Ziyaud-Din A. Desai.</ref> and his Maqbara is located in Guband Kambohan wala on Empress Road near Railways Headquarters, Lahore.

Inayat-Allah Kamboh spent his early life in the military service of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]] and was a "Mir Munshi" (''Inspector General'') of [[Shah Jahan]] and held a mansab of 800 horses. ''But he after a period of service, he retired from the world and lived besides the sacred shrine of Qutb-ud-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki at [[Delhi]]''.<ref name="Jahan_131"/> Like his brother Muhammad Saleh, Inayat-Allah is also stated to be an accomplished Hindi singer.<ref name="Jahan_131"/><ref>Persian literature in India during the time of Jahangir and Shah Jahan, 1970, p 171, M. Lutfur Rahman, Persian literature India History and criticism.</ref>

Inayat-Allah Kamboh wrote several historical works. He is most famous for his collection of tales entitled ''[[Bahar-i-Danish]]'' (Springtime of Knowledge), completed in 1651 AD, which became one of the most popular textbooks of [[Persian language|Persian]]. Historian [[Muhammad Saleh Kamboh]], younger brother of Inayat-Allah Kamboh, praised ''Bahar-i-Danish'' as a model of sophisticated workmanship.<ref>See: Muhammad Saleh Kamboh, Vol. 2, 1660: 862.</ref> It became part of the syllabuses of Persian schools and is mentioned in a manuscript-copy of ''Khulasatul Makatib'', written in 1688. From its popular use in Persian schools, educated men and women, both [[Muslim]]s and [[Hindu]]s, were commonly acquainted with it in Mughal India. During [[British India|British]] rule too, according to education reports, it was taught in nearly all schools and its ''style and idiom'' were ''regarded as the best models of composition'' (Reid 1852: 54).<ref>See: Language, Ideology and Power : Language-Learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India , p 127, Tariq Rahman (2 May 2002) - Oxford University Press, USA.</ref>

His another important work of Kamboh is the ''Takmilah-yi-Akbar-Namah'' which is a continuation of Abu-al-Fazl’s ''Akbar-Namah'' and narrates the last four years of emperor Akbar’s reign. He also wrote two more books known as ''Dalkasha'' and ''Asharaf-al-Sarayaf''.

==See also==
* [[Muhammad Saleh Kamboh]]

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