The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
her kinsmen `Alī-dost, Sherīm, Ghiyās̤ _q.v._;
[♰910 AH.-1505 AD.].
+Aīsān-qulī Sulṯān _Aūzbeg-Shaibān_, _Chīngīz-khānid_—his Bāī-qarā
marriage, 265, 397.
+Aīsān-tīmūr Sulṯān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Aḥmad
(Alacha Khān)—on Bābur's service 318, 682;
meets Bābur (935) 654;
in the battle of the Ghogrā 672, 673;
thanked 677;
angers Bābur 684.
+Ākā Begīm+, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Tīmūr—an ancestress of Ḥusain
_Bāī-qarā_ 256.
+Ākā Begīm+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, daughter of Manṣūr and
Fīrūza—particulars 257;
her husband Aḥmad and their son Kīchīk Mīrzā _q.v._
Abū'l-fatḥ Jalālu'd-dīn Muḥammad +Akbar+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_,
_Barlās Turk_, grandson of Bābur and Māhīm—☛ 184;
☛ an addition about him made to the Chihil-zīna inscription 432;
☛ his visit to Pānīpat (963) 472;
his change in the name of the cherry explained by Bābur's words 501,
n. 6;
[♰1014 AH.-1605 AD.].
+Alacha Khān+, see Aḥmad _Chaghatāī_.
+Al-amān+, son of Humāyūn—his birth and name (935) 621, 624, 642;
[♰ in infancy].
+`Ālam Khān+ _Kālpī_, son of Jalāl Khān _Jik-hat_ (or
_Jig-hat_)—holding Kālpī and not submissive to Bābur (932) 523;
goes to Court (933) 544;
disobeys orders 557;
is Bābur's host in Kālpī (934) 590;
on service (935) 682;
an order about him 684.
`Alāu'u'd-dīn +`Ālam Khān+ _Lūdī Afghān_, son of Buhlūl—☛ a principal
actor between 926-32 AH. 428;
☛ asks and obtains Bābur's help against his nephew Ibrāhīm (929)
439-441;
placed by Bābur in charge of Dībālpūr (930) 442;
☛ defeated by Daulat Khān _Yūsuf-khail_ (931) 444;
flees to Kābul and is again set forth 444, 455;
defeated by Ibrāhīm and returns to Bābur (932) 454-8;
his relations with Bābur reviewed 455, n. 1;
in Fort Ginguta 457, 463;
in the left centre at Kānwa (933) 565;
his sons Jalāl, Kamāl, and Sher Khān (_Lūdī_) _q.v._
Sulṯān `Alāu'u'd-dīn +`Ālam Khān+ _Sayyidī_—holding Dihlī 481;
[♰855 AH.-1451 AD.].
+`Ālam Khān+ _Tahangarī_, brother of Niẕām Khān of Bīāna—works badly
with Bābur's force (933) 538;
defeated by his brother 539;
sent out of the way before Kānwa 547.
+`Alāu'u'd-dīn Ḥusain Shāh+, ruler in Bengal—the circumstances of his
succession 483;
his son Naṣrat _q.v._;
[♰925 AH.-1518 AD.?].
+`Alāu'u'd-dīn Ḥusain+ _Jahān-soz Ghūrī_—his destruction in Ghazni
(550) 219;
[♰556 AH.-1161 AD.?].
Sulṯān +`Alāu'u'd-dīn Muḥammad Shāh+ _Khīljī Turk_—Bābur visits his
tomb and minār (932) 476;
his bringing of the Koh-i-nūr from the Dakkhin 477;
[♰715 AH.-1315 AD.].
Sulṯān +`Alāu'u'd-dīn+ _Sawādī_—waits on Bābur (925) 372, 375-6.
+`Alāūl Khān+ _Sūr Afghān_—writes dutifully to Bābur (935) 659.
+`Alāūl Khān+ _Nūḥānī Afghān_—his waitings on Bābur (934, 935) 677,
680.
Sharafu'd-dīn Muḥammad +al Buṣīrī+—his _Qaṣīdatu'l-būrda_ an example
for the _Wālidiyyah-risāla_ 620;
[♰_cir._ 693 AH.-1294 AD.].
+Alexander of Macedon+, see Iskandar _Fīlqūs_ (_Failaqūs_).
Sayyid +`Alī+—escapes from a defeat (909) 102;
out with Bābur (925) 403;
sent against Balūchīs (935) 638.
Sulṯān +`Alī+ _aṣghar_ Mīrzā _Shāh-rukhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_,
son of Mas`ūd _Kābulī_—particulars 382.
+`Alī Ātāka+, servant of Khalīfa—reinforces the right wing
(_tūlghuma_) at Kānwa (933) 569.
Shaikh +`Alī Bahādur+, one of Tīmūr's chiefs—his descendant Bābā
`Alī 27.
Khwāja +`Alī Bāī+—mentioned (906) 127;
fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 139;
his son Jān-i-`alī _q.v._
Shaikh +`Alī+ _Bārīn Mughūl_, son of Shaikh Jamāl—in the left wing
(_tūlghuma_) at Pānīpat (932) 473;
sent against Balūchīs (935) 638.
+`Alī+ _Barlās Turk_—his son Muḥammad Barandūq _q.v._
+`Alī Beg+ _Jalāīr Chaghatāī_, father of Ḥasan-i-`Alī and Apāq
Bega—his Shāh-rukhī service 278.[2872]
Mīr (Shaikh) +`Alī Beg+ _Turk_ (inferred 389), governor of Kābul for
Shāh-rukh _Tīmūrīd_—his sons Bābā Kābulī, Daryā Khān, and Ghāzī
(Apāq) Khān (_q.v._) cherished by Mas`ūd _Shāh-rukhī_ 382;
(see his son Ghāzī's grandson Minūchihr for a Turk relation 386).
Sulṯān +`Alī+ _chuhra_, _Chaghatāī_—his loyalty to Bābur doubted
(910) 239;
rebels (914) 345.
Sayyid +`Alī-darwesh Beg+ _Khurāsānī_—particulars 28;
with Jahāngīr (_æt._ 8), in Akhsī (899) 32, leaves Bābur for home
(903) 91;
on Bābur's service (904) 106, (905) 28, 118.
Mīr +`Alī-dost T̤aghāī+ _Kūnjī Mughūl_, a Sāghārīchī-_tūmān_
beg—particulars 27-8;
his appointment on Bābur's accession (899) 32;
has part in a conference (900) 43;
surrenders Andijān (903) 88-9;
asks Bābur's pardon (904) 99;
gives him Marghīnān 100;
defeated by Taṃbal 106;
in the right wing at Khūbān (905) 113;
his ill-timed pacifism 118;
his self-aggrandizement 119, 123;
joins Bābur against Samarkand 123;
in fear of his victims, goes to Taṃbal 125;
his death _ib._;
his brother Ghiyās̤, his son Muḥammad-dost, and his servant Yūl-chūq
_q.v._;
[♰a few years after 905 AH.-1500 AD.].
Mīr Sayyid +`Alī+ _Hamadānī_—his death and burial 211;
[♰786 AH.-1384 AD.].
Mullā +`Alī-jān+ (var. Khān)—fetches his wife from Samarkand (925) 403;
is taught a rain-spell (926) 423;
makes verse on the Kābul-river (932) 448;
a satirical couplet on him made and repented by Bābur 448;
host of Mullā Maḥmūd _Farābī_ (935) 653.
+`Alī Khān+ _Bāyandar_, _Āq-qūīlūq Turkmān_—joins Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_
(873) 279.
Shaikh-zāda +`Alī Khān+ _Farmūlī Afghān_—his family-train captured
(932) 526;
waits on Bābur 526-7;
in the left wing at Kānwa (933) 567;
on service 576, 582, 678.
+`Alī Khān+ _Istiljū_—leads Ismā`īl _Ṣafawī's_ reinforcement to Bābur
(917) 353.
Sayyid +`Alī Khān+ _Turk_, son of Ghāzī (Apāq) Khān and grandson of
Mīr (Shaikh) `Alī Beg—one of Sikandar _Lūdī's_ Governors in the
Panjāb (910) 382;
leaves Bhīra on Bābur's approach _ib._;
his lands made over by him to Daulat Khān _Yūsuf-khail_ 382-3;
his son Minūchihr and their Turk relation (389) _q.v._
+`Alī Khān+ _Turkmān_, son of `Umar Beg—defends the Bāī-qarā families
against Shaibānī (913) 328.
+`Alī Khān+ _Yūsuf-khail Lūdī Afghān_—eldest son of Daulat Khān—his
servants wait on Bābur (925) 382;
comes out of Milwat (Malot) to Bābur (932) 459-60;
sent under guard to Bhīra 461;
his son Ismā`īl _q.v._
Sayyid +`Alī+ _Khwāb-bīn_, father of Sayyid Afẓal _q.v._ (cf. Ḥ.S.
lith. ed. iii, 346).
Mullā Sulṯān +`Alī+ _khẉush-nawīs_, calligrapher of Ḥusain
_Bāī-qarā_—particulars 291;
given lessons in penmanship by Shaibānī (913) 329;
[♰919 AH.-1513 AD.].
+`Alī-mazīd Beg+ _qūchīn_—particulars 26;
leaves Bābur for home (903) 91.
Mīr +`Alī+ _mīr-akhẉur_[2873]—particulars 279;
helps Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā_ to surprise Yādgār-i-muḥammad _Shāh-rukhī_
in Herī (875) 134, 279.
Sulṯān +`Alī Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Maḥmūd
and Zuḥra—particulars 47;
serving his half-brother Bāī-sunghar (900) 27, 55;
made _pādshāh_ in Samarkand by the Tarkhāns (901) 62-3, 86;
meets Bābur 64;
their arrangement 66,(902) 65, 82, 86;
gives no protection to his blind half-brother Mas`ūd (903) 95;
suspects a favoured beg (904) 98;
quarrels with the Tarkhāns (905) 121;
desertions from him 122;
defeats Mīrzā Khān's Mughūls _ib._;
is warned of Bābur's approach 125;
gives Samarkand to Shaibānī and by him is murdered (906) 125-7;
his wife Sulṯānīm _Mīrān-shāhī_ and sister Makhdūm-sulṯān _q.v._;
[♰906 AH.-1500 AD.].
Sulṯān +`Alī Mīrzā T̤aghāī+ _Begchīk_ (Mīrzā Beg T̤aghāī), brother(?)
of Bābur's wife Gul-rukh—movements of his which bear on the
_lacuna_ of 914-924 AH. 408;
arrives in Kābul (925) _ib._;
Kāmrān marries his daughter (934) 619;
conveys Bābur's wedding gifts to Kāmrān (935) 642;
takes also a copy of the _Wālidiyyah-risāla_ and of the Hindūstān
poems, with writings (_sar-khat̤t̤_) in the Bāburī script 642.
Ustād +`Alī-qulī+—his match-lock shooting at Bajaur (925) 369;
shoots prisoners (932) 466;
ordered to make Rūmī defences at Pānīpat 469;
fires _firingīs_ from the front of the centre 473;
casts a large mortar (933) 536, 547;
his jealousy of Muṣṯafa _Rūmī_ 550;
his post previous to Kānwa 558;
his valiant deeds in the battle 570-1;
a new mortar bursts (934) 588;
his choice of ground at Chandīrī 593;
his stone-discharge interests Bābur 595, 670-1-2;
uses the Ghāzī mortar while the Ganges bridge is in building 599;
a gift to his son (935) 633;
his post in the battle of the Ghogrā 667, 668, 669.
+`Alī-qulī+ _Hamadānī_—☛ sent by Bābur to punish the Mundāhirs,
and fails (936) 700.
Mīr +`Alī+ _qūrchī_—conveys playing-cards to Shāh Ḥasan _Arghūn_
(933) 584.
Malik +`Alī+ _quṯnī_(?)—in the left centre at Bajaur (925) 369.
+`Alī Sayyid+ _Mughūl_—in the right wing at Qandahār (913) 334;
rebels (914) 345[2874];
his connection Aūrūs-i `Alī Sayyid 335.
+`Alī+ _shab-kūr_ (night-blind)—one of five champions defeated in
single combat by Bābur (914) 349.
Mīr +`Alī-sher Beg+ _Chaghatāī_, pen-names Nawā'ī and Fanā'ī—his
obligations to Aḥmad Ḥājī Beg and return to Herāt 38;
fails in a mission of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ (902) 69[2875];
his Turkī that of Andijān 4;
checks Ḥusain in Shī`a action 258;
opposes administrative reform 282;
particulars 271-2;
his relations with Banā'ī 286-7, 648;
corresponds with Bābur (906) 106;
exchanges quatrains with Pahlawān Bū-sa`īd 292;
some of his poems transcribed by Bābur (925) 419;
his restoration of the Rabāṯ-i-sang-bast 301 n. 1;
his flower-garden (_bāghcha_) and buildings visited or occupied by
Bābur (912) 301, 305, 306;
his brother Darwesh-i-`alī _q.v._;
a favoured person 278;
a mystic of his circle 280-1;
his scribe 271;
[♰906 AH.-Dec. 1500 AD.].
+`Alī-shukr Beg+, of the Bahārlū-aīmāq of the Āq-qūīlūq[2876]
Turkmāns—his daughter Pasha, grandson Yār-i-`alī _Balāl_,
and descendant Bairām Khān-i-khānān _q.v._
Sulṯān +`Alī Sīstānī+ _Arghūn_—his help against Shaibānī counselled
(913) 326;
☛ one of five champions worsted by Bābur in single combat (914) 349;
with Bābur and chops at a tiger (925) 393.
Shaikh +`Alī T̤aghāī+ _Mervī_(?)—holding Balkh for Badī`u'z-zamān
_Bāī-qarā_ (902) 70;
joint-dārogha in Herī (911) 293.
+Allāh-bīrdī+ (var. qūlī)—serving Bābur (910) 234.
+Allāh-wairān+ _Turkmān_—in the van at Qandahār (913) 335.
+Alūr+ or Alwar,[2877] son of Bābur and Dil-dār—mentioned 689 n. 5.
☛ 712;
[♰died an infant].
+Amīn Mīrzā+—an Aūzbeg envoy to Bābur (935) 631;
receives gifts 632, 641.
+Amīn-i-muḥammad Tarkhān+ _Arghūn_—punished for disobedience (925)
390-1;
deals with a drunken companion 415.
+Amīr Khān+, chief guardian of T̤ahmāsp _Ṣafawī_—☛ negociates with
Bābur (927) 433.
Mullā +Apāq+—particulars 526;
on Bābur's service (932) 526, 528, (933) 539, (934) 590;
surprised by Sangā (933) 549;
made _shíqdār_ of Chandīrī 598;