Mughal Administration c12.s7.2

c12.s7.2

making the word Ali a part of any newly-created noble's title. (M. A. 313.) In one letter he narrates with approval the story of how a Sunni murdered a Shia at Isfahan and escaped to safety! (I. O. L. 1344, f. 34b.) He orders that Persians newly arrived in India should not be posted to any of the ports on the West Coast. (Kalimat-Tay. 141 a.) Many instances of the bloody persecution of the Shias, on the charge of blasphemy (against the first three Khalifs), in Aurangzib’s reign are given in the Tarikh-i-Kashmiri Azami.