Mughal Administration c12.s6.2

c12.s6.2

To him a Shia was a heretic (rafizi), and he usually calls the Persians carrion-eating demons (Irani ghul-i-bayabani); but this tone may have been partly due to his political rupture with the Safavi Shahs. In one of his letters he tells us how he was pleased with a dagger presented to him by a noble man, which was named Rafizikush or Shia-slayer, and ordered some more of the same shape and name to be made for him. [Ruqaat-i-Alamgiri, 133.]