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[[File:Weeks Edwin Lord An Open-Air Restaurant Lahore.jpg|thumb| An Open-air restaurant outside the [[Wazir Khan Mosque]] in [[Lahore]].]]<br />
'''Wazir Khan''', (real name ''Hakim'' '''Shaikh Ilam-ud-din Ansari'''), was a native of [[Chiniot]], whose family migrated to [[Lahore]]<ref>For other family connections in Lahore also see the articles on [[Fakir Khana]] and [[Hakim Ahmad Shuja]]</ref> and who rose to be one of the court physicians to the [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Shah Jahan]] in Lahore, and was in due course, over a long lifetime of service, made a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] noble. He remained Chief [[Qadi]] at Lahore for some time.<ref>Dr AMK Islahi, ''Puranay Lahore ki Tareekh, Eik Jaeza'' (Urdu:A History of Old Lahore, An Evaluation), Lahore: Chand Publishers Anarkali, 1997, p.128</ref><br />
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He is best known, today, for founding [[Wazirabad]], a city near river Chenab in Punjab and building the famous [[Wazir Khan Mosque]] in Lahore. The title of 'Wazir Khan' by which he is remembered by posterity was granted him by Shah Jahan, and literally means a 'Wazir', or [[Vizier]], a 'Minister/High Court Official'.<br />
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