BĀBOR, ẒAHĪR-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD (6 Moḥarram 886-6 Jomādā I 937/14 February 1483-26 December 1530), Timurid prince, military genius, and literary craftsman…

ʿALĪ EBRĀHĪM KHAN, Indian statesman and literary figure (d. 1208/1793-94). His full name, including titles, was Navvāb Amīn-al-dawla ʿAzīz-al-molk ʿAlī…

AKBAR I, ABU’L-FATḤ JALĀL-AL-DĪN MOḤAMMAD (949-1014/1542-1605), third and greatest of the Mughal emperors of India. Akbar established the patterns of…

AJMER (Aǰmēr, from Skt. Ajayameru), a city in Rajasthan, western India, of great strategic, commercial, and cultural importance from the…