History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c14.s1.3

c14.s1.3

A contemporary of Nizam-al-Din is Amin Ahmad Razi, the author of the *Haft Iqlim* who completed his work in 1593 A.D. There are copies of this work in the Bankipore, the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Buhar libraries and a small portion of it has been published in the *Bibliotheca Indica*. The author of the *Haft Iqlim* is an independent authority and gives some original information. Being an earlier writer than Badaoni, Ali, Firishta and Hajji-ad-Dabir, he is more valuable when he is corroborated from other independent sources as for example in giving an account of the origin of the Bahmani dynasty he refers to a certain work the *Ayun-ut-tawarikh* which is in agreement with the *Tabaqat*, the *Burhan-i-Masir* and the Arabic History of Gujarat. The *Haft Iqlim* is an encyclopaedia which gives biographical notices of Shaikhs and leading personages and throws much light upon certain events of political history.