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Sam seized Delhi, he (the Khwaja) arrived in that city and, in order to
lead a life of seclusion, he withdrew to Ajmer’ (Abu’l Fazl 1978: 178).
6 According to Fawā’id al-fu’ād, Shaikh Husain Zanjani died earlier than
al-Hujwiri, in which case Khwaja Mu‘inuddin could not have met him
in Lahore. ‘Husayn Zanjani had lived in Lahore for a long time when
their common pir said to Khwaja ‘Ali Hujwiri, ‘Go settle in Lahore’.
‘Ali Hujwiri protested: ‘But Shaykh Husayn Zanjani lives there’. ‘Go!’
said the pir, repeating his injunction. ‘Ali Hujwiri dutifully left and
proceeded to Lahore. He arrived there in the evening. The next
morning he heard them reading the funeral prayer for Shaykh Husayn’
(Amir Hasan 1992: 119).
7 Bibi Hafiz Jamal’s name is given to the area to the west of Taragarh
fortress, where the spring Chashma-i Hafiz Jamal was situated, by the
side of which, on emperor Jahangir’s orders, in 1614 the country palace
Chashma-i nur was erected and a regular park with reservoirs and
fountains was laid out. The ambassador Thomas Roe left a detailed
description of the palace and the garden (Foster 1965: 123–6).
8 Muqţa‘ was in the Muslim medieval East the holder of an iqţā‘, i.e. a
fief, granted by the ruler to a private person on condition of performing
a particular, most often, military service. The collection of taxes on the
territory of iqţā‘ was part of his responsibilities. In the Delhi Sultanate
muqţa‘ performed the role of administrative vicegerents of conquered
territories.
9 Apparently, in view of the hazard of the journey to Ajmer, Mu‘inuddin’s
great successors Nizamuddin Awliya and Nasiruddin Chiragh-i Dihli
did not perform pilgrimage to his tomb, but limited themselves to the
ziyārat of the tomb of Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki.
10 The cauldron has not survived, only the chronogram of the date of its
installation remains, written by Mir ‘Atauddaula Kami Qazwini, one
of the poets of Akbar’s court:
The faith-cherished king, enthroned like Jamshid,
The Khusraw of the age, Muhammad Akbar
Made, without doubt, for the conquest of Chittor,
A mortar-brazen-bodied and dragon-faced.
(Tirmizi 1968: 17)
11 A well-known anecdote is peculiar for Aurangzeb’s attitude towards
music. After he had removed all the musicians from his court, the latter
went past the emperor’s chambers with a funeral procession. On being
questioned whom they were going to bury the musicians replied that
music had died and they were going to bury it. ‘Fine’, replied
Aurangzeb, ‘bury it deeper, so that no sound is heard from the grave.’
12 Wet-nurses and nannies wielded great influence in the court of the
Great Mughals and often donated ritual buildings, the most wellknown
of which was the mosque of Dai Anga, wet-nurse of Shah
Jahan, in Lahore.
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