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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

plotted against _ib._; invites Mīrzā Khān and Bābur 122, 123; welcomes Bābur 40, 124; joins Khusrau Shāh (906) 129; fights for Bābur at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 139; takes refuge with Khusrau Shāh 141; at Kūl-i-malik (918) ☛ 357; killed there 39; his house a post of Bābur's 143; [♰918 AH.-1512 AD.]. Sulṯān +Muḥammad Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—parentage 257. Sayyid +Muḥammad Mīrzā+ _Dūghlāt_, uncle of Ḥaidar—sent to help Bābur (906) 139; envoy of Sa`īd _Chaghatāī_ to him (917) 22; escorts his niece to Kāshghar _ib._ Sulṯān +Muḥammad Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī_, grandson of Tīmūr—his son Abū-sa`īd _q.v._ Sultan +Muḥammad Mīrzā+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_—his father Abū-sa`īd _q.v._ +Muḥammad+ _mīskīn_, _Dūldāī Barlās_, son of Ḥafiẓ—captured by Bābur's men (903) 72. +Muḥammad Muḥsin+ _Bāī-qarā_, see Kūpūk. +Muḥammad Muqīm Beg+ _Arghūn_, son of Ẕū'n-nūn—takes possession of Kābul (908) 195 n. 3; loses it to Bābur (910) 198, 199, 227, 246 n. 3; loses Qalāt-i-ghilzāī to him (911) 248-9; seeks his co-operation against Shaibānī (913) 330; withdraws and fails in etiquette 331-2; opposed to Bābur at Qandahār 333-7; flees in defeat 339. Khwāja +Muḥammad Muqīm+ _Herāwī_, father of Niẕāmu'd-dīn Aḥmad the historian—☛ mentioned 691 n. 1, ☛ 692; ☛ his story of a plan to supersede Humāyūn as Pādshāh in 937 AH. 703; discussion of it 704-7; its incredibility as told 704-5. +Muḥammad Mūmin+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Badī`u'z-zamān—Astarābād claimed for him (902) 69; defeated by an uncle 71 (where _delete_ the _`aīn_ from his name); his murder attributed to Khadīja Begim 268. Shaikh +Muḥammad+ _Muṣalmān_, ancestor of the Farmūlī Shaikh-zādas—his tomb and descendants 220. Sulṯān +Muḥammad Muz̤affar+ _Gujrātī_, _Tānk Rājpūt_—particulars 481-2; his death 481; his sons Sikandar Shāh and Bahādur Khān _q.v._; [♰932 AH.-1526 AD.]. +Muḥammad+ _Nūḥānī_, see Bihār Khān. Mullā +Muḥammad+ _Pargharī_—loquacious (932) 453. +Muḥammad-i-qāsim+ _Barlās_—comes accidentally on Bābur (925) 417. +Muḥammad-i-qāsim Mīrzā+ _Arlāt_, son of Abū'l-qāsim (Ḥ.S. iii, 327)—his Bāī-qarā wife and their child 265; his sons (?) Bābur and Murād _q.v._ +Muḥammad-i-qāsim Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, son of Ḥusain and Pāpā—parentage 265. +Muḥammad-i-qāsim+ _Nabīra_, grandson of Muḥammad _Sīghal_—made prisoner when opposing Bābur (903) 72. +Muḥammad-i-qāsim+ _Qībchāq Turk_, son of Bāqī _Chaghānīānī_—leaves his family in Ajar (910) 191; father (?) of Aḥmad-i-qāsim _q.v._ +Muḥammad-qulī+ _qūchīn_—Mīr Shāh _qūchīn_—helps Bāī-sunghar's escape from Samarkand (901) 62; with Bābur at Samarkand and wounded (902) 68; stays with him at a crisis (903) 91; captured (904) and released by Taṃbal (905) 119; in the van at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) (906) 139; besieged in Samarkand 142-144; with Bābur when surprised by Taṃbal (908) 163; in the left wing at Qandahār (913) 334; in a raid (925) 403. +Muḥammad+ _qūrchī_, retainer of Khusrau Shāh—rises against the Aūzbeg occupation of Badakhshān (910) 242; expels Nāṣir _Mīrān-shāhī_ (912) 321; keeping up his head (913) 340. Ustād +Muḥammad+ _sabz-banā_—his son Banā'ī _q.v._ Maulānā +Muḥammad Ṣadru'd-dīn+ _Andijānī_—his six sons' service to Bābur 370 n. 2; his sons Khwājaka Mullā-i-ṣadr, Kīchīk Khwāja, Khwāja Kalān _q.v._ +Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Mīrzā+ _Khwārizmī_, author of the _Shaibānī-nāma_—in Khwāja Yaḥyā's service[2912] and waits on Bābur (901) 64; leaves Samarkand with the Tarkhāns (905) 121; enters Shaibānī's service 65 n. 3; on Shaibānī's service (910) 196 n. 5; couplets of his quoted by Bābur 120-1, 448; [♰941 AH.-1534-5 AD.]. Ustād Shāh +Muḥammad+ _sang-tarāsh_—cuts an inscription (913) 343; receives orders for work (933) 585, 606, (935) 642. +Muḥammad Shāh+ _Khīljī Turk_, son of Nāṣiru'd-dīn of Mālwā—takes Chanderī and seeks Ibrāhīm _Lūdī's_ protection (916) 593; his young son Aḥmad _q.v._; [♰931 AH.-1524 AD.?]. +Muḥammad Shāh Pādshāh+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—his change of name for an orange 511 n. 4; [♰1161 AH.-1748 AD.]. +Muḥammad+ _Shaibānī_, see Shaibānī. Shaikh +Muḥammad-i Shaikh Bhakarī+ (?)—on service (933) 382. Shāh +Muḥammad Shaikh-zāda+ _Farmūlī Afghān_, son of Ma`rūf—leaves his Afghān associates (934) 598 (no name here); favoured by Bābur 603, 675; compelled to act with Bīban and Bāyazīd (935) 675; writes dutifully to Bābur _ib._; waits on `Askarī and Bābur _ib._ and 679. +Muḥammad Sharīf+ _munajjim_ (astrologer)—comes to Kābul (925) 399 and to Āgra (933) 551; augurs defeat at Kānwa 551, 576; offers congratulations on victory, blamed and banished with a gift 576. Sulṯān +Muḥammad+ _Sīghal_, _Chaghatāī_—his descendants Muḥammad-i-qāsim and Ḥasan _q.v._ (Cf. 66 n. 4 and Ḥ.S. lith. ed. iii, 275 for tribe and title resp.). +Muḥammad Sulṯān+ _bakhshī_—left behind to catch pheasants (925) 404; in a night-attack on Ibrāhīm's camp (932) 471; in the left wing at Pānīpat 472; has custody of the cook who poisoned Bābur (933) 542; staff-officers at Kānwa 568; host to Bābur (935) 629; introduces a Kābul messenger 644; brings news of Maḥmūd _Lūdī_ 653-4; writes that Bābur's family is on its way from Kābul 657; waits on Bābur 606; his servant Shāh Qāsim _q.v._ Sulṯān +Muḥammad Sulṯān+ _Chaghatāī Chīngīz-khānid_—Sulṯānīm and Khānika—eldest son of The Khān (Maḥmūd)—sent to help Bābur (903) 92; his guardian and he oppose Bābur (905) 116; his part in acclaiming the standards (907) 155; goes out to meet his uncle Aḥmad (Alacha Khān) (908) 159; ☛ murdered 350; [♰914 AH.-1508 AD.]. +Muhammad Sulṯān-i-jahāngīr Mīrzā+ _Jahāngīrī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_—Samarkand given to him by his grandfather Tīmūr 85; his college 78. +Muḥammad Sulṯān Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, son of Wais and Sulṯānīm—particulars 265; waits on Bābur at Kalānūr (932) 458; on Bābur's service 468, 471, 475, 530, 534, (933) 545, 548, 582, (934) 589, (935) 682; in the left wing at Pānīpat (932) 472 and at Kānwa (933) 567, 570; gifts to him 527; given Qānūj 582; joins Bābur (935) 651; in the battle of the Ghogrā 671, 672, 674; ☛ mentioned 706 (where wrongly classed with half-Tīmūrids); once owner of the Elphinstone Codex 706 n. 3. Beg +Muḥammad+ _ta`alluqchī_—conveys gifts to Humāyūn (Muḥ. 934) and returns (Rabī`I, 935) 621; Bābur complains of his detention. +Muḥammad T̤āhir+—captured (903) 74. Muḥammad +Tīmūr Sulṯān+ _Aūzbeg-Shaibān_, _Chīngīz-khānid_, son of Shaibānī—at Samarkand (906) 128; at Sar-i-pul (Khwāja Kārdzan) 139; defeats and kills two Bāī-qarā Mīrzās (913) 263, 329-30; leaves Samarkand on Bābur's approach (917) 354; at Ghaj-davān (918) 360; his marriages with captives 24, 36, 328 n. 1. Mullā +Muhammad+ _ṯālib-mu`ammāī_—an enigmatist of Ḥusain _Bāī-qarā's_ Court—particulars 201 n. 7[2913]; a couplet of his quoted 201-2; [♰918 AH.-1512 AD.]. Pahlawān Ḥājī +Muḥammad+ _tufang-andāzī_—receives gifts (935) 633. Mullā +Muḥammad+ _Turkistānī_, retainer of Khusrau Shāh—makes Qūndūz safe for Shaibānī Khān (910) 192. +Muhammad-i-`ubaidu'l-lāh+, son of Aḥrārī, see Khwāja Khwāja. Sulṯān +Muḥammad Wais+—waits on Bābur (902) 66; runs away and is suspected (907) 156; serving Bābur at Akhsī (908) 174; his retainer Kīchīk `Alī _q.v._ +Muḥammad Walī+ Beg—particulars 277; on Ḥusain Bāī-qarā's service (901) 57, (902) 70, (903) 94. +Muḥammad-i-yūsuf+ _Aūghlāqchī_, elder son of Yūsuf—waits on Bābur (905) 125. Mīr +Muḥammad-i-yūsuf+—particulars 285; waits on Bābur in Herāt (912) 285; Shaibānī instructs him in exposition (913) 329. +Muḥammad+ _Zaitūn_[2914]—opposing Bābur (932) 523; written to and makes false excuse 529, 530; waits on Bābur (933) 540; sent out of the way before Kānwa 547. Khwāja +Muḥammad Ẕakariya+,[2915] son of Yaḥyā—murdered 128; [906 AH.-1500 AD.]. +Muḥammad-i-zamān Mīrzā+ _Bāī-qarā Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, grandson and last surviving heir of Ḥusain—particulars 261, 269 n. 6, 279; spared by Shaibānī 263; his wanderings and association with Khwānd-amīr 364-5, 463 n. 3; sent to Bābur and married to his daughter Ma`ṣūma-sulṯān (923-4) 365; in Balkh 365, 522; dutiful letters and tribute sent by him to Bābur (925) 385, 402, ☛ 427, ☛ (926-932) 428; with Bābur (935) 606, 631, 639, 659; objects to the Bihār command 661-2; does homage for it and is given _insignia_ of royalty 662, ☛ 706; starts for Bihār but is recalled 663, 664; in the battle of the Ghogrā 668, 669, 671; ☛ given Jūnpūr 682; pursues Bīban and Bāyazīd 682; grounds for surmising in Bābur the intention to leave him as ruler in Hindūstān 705-7; ☛ of his later uprisings against Humāyūn 714 n. 1; [♰drowned at Chausa 946 AH.-1539 AD.]. +Muḥibb-i-`alī Khān+ _Barlās Turk_, son of Khalīfa—☛ marries Nāhid Begim (930) 443; in a night-attack (932) 471; in the left centre at Pānīpat 472, 473 and at Kānwa (933) 565; unhorsed in `Abdu'l-`azīz' discomfiture 549-50; on service (934) 601. +Muḥibb-i-`alī+ _qūrchī_—on Khusrau Shāh's service (901) 60, (902) 71; joins Bābur (910) 188; Bābur's praise of him (912) 307, 308; loyal 313, (914) 346; in the van at Qandahār (913) 335; collector of an impost (925) 384; at Ḥiṣār-fīrūza (932) 465-6; at an entertainment 410. +Muḥibb-sulṯān+ _Mīrān-shāhī Tīmūrid_, _Barlās Turk_, daughter of Maḥmūd—particulars 48, 49. Sāqī +Muḥsin+—wrestles (935) 660. +Muḥsin+ _Dūldāī Barlās_—at Chanderī (934) 590. +Muīnu'd-dīn al Zamjī+—omitted (or lost) from Bābur's list of Herāt celebrities 283 n. 1. +Mujāhid Khān+ _Multānī_—on Bābur's service (933) 540. The +Mulla+, see `Abdu'r-raḥmān _Jāmī_. +Mullā Bābā+ _Farkatī_—brings Bābur news of Shaibānī (913) 343. +Mullā Bihishtī+—conveys gifts to Hind-al (935) 642. +Mullā Bābā+ _Pashāgharī_, _Chaghatāī_—comes into one of Bābur's dreams (906) 132; at Sar-i-pul 141; envoy for Bābur to Khusrau Shāh (910) 188; loyal (912) 313, (914) 346; ☛ disloyal in Ghaznī (921) 363; deserts Humāyūn (932) 545; joins the Aūzbegs; his proceedings 546; his brother Bābā Shaikh _q.v._; his Kābul garden 315. +Mullā Hijrī+, a poet—waits on Bābur (907) 153. +Mullā Kabīr+—his devious route to wait on Bābur (925) 399. +Mullā Khwājakā+—prescribes for Bābur (925) 399 (where read Khwajakā). +Mullā Khwāja-i Sayyid Ātā+—his Bāī-qarā wife 265-6. +Mullā Tabrīzī+—conveys gifts (935) 642. +Mullā T̤aghāī+—envoy to Bābur of Abū-sa`īd _Aūzbeg_ (935) 631, 632, 641. +Mūmin+—suspected of the death of Nūyān Kūkūldāsh (907) 151-2. +Mūmin-i-`alī+ _tawāchī_—conveys orders (932) 451; conveys the Kānwa Letter-of-victory to Kābul (933) 580. +Mūmin Ātākā+—out with Bābur (925) 404;