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The Book of Akbar 121: Jalālu-d-dīn Mīrān Shāh.

The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 121

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Jalālu-d-dīn Mīrān Shāh is the sixth ancestor of the king of kings. His noble birth was in 769 and in his father’s lifetime he governed the Arabian and Persian ‘Irāqs, Āzārbāījān, Diyārbakr (Mesopotamia) and Syria.
When his Majesty Sāhib Qirānī marched against India, all these countries were placed under his (Jalālu-d-dīn’s) management so that not for a moment, was there intermission of justice and sovereignty.
One day while hunting roebuck, his horse shied (or perhaps took fright) in galloping and he was thrown from the point of the saddle to the ground and sustained grave injuries to his head and face. Able physicians and surgeons applied remedies and restored him to physical health but his mind remained clouded (lit. a mist encircled the centre of his mind's equability) from the accident. After Timur’s death, Miran Shah’s eldest son Ababakr Mirza read the khutba and struck coins in his father’s name. His Highness the Prince (Miran Shah) lived principally in Tabriz and all affairs of sovereignty were carried on by Mirza Ababakr. On 24th ZI-l-qa‘da, 810 (21st April, 1408), he was killed in a battle with Qara Yusuf Turkman in the environs of Tabriz. He had eight sons, Ababakr, Alankar Mirza, ‘Usman Calbi Mirza, ‘Umar Khalil, Sultan Muhammad Mirza, Ijil Mirza, Sivurghtamish.