[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Mughal Administration](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920) › c12.s6.2 # Mughal Administration c12.s6.2 Mughal Administration c12.s6.2 - **Language:** English ### [c12.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.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. \[Ruqaat-i-Alamgiri, 133.\] - [Previous: c12.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c12.s6.1) - [Next: c12.s6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c12.s6.3) - [Up: c12.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c12.s6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c12.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c12.s6.2) · Pramāṇa