Abū l-Faḍl-i ʿAllāmī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Streusand, Douglas E.
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Brill
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Abū l-Faḍl-i ʿAllāmī (d. 1011/1602) was an advisor, biographer, and confidantof the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 963-1014/1556-1605) as well as one of the intellectual architects of the Mughal polity. His great work, Akbar-nāma , is simultaneously the most important source on Akbar's political program and an important element of that program. 1. Biography Born on the 6 Muḥarram 958/2 January 1551 at Agra, Abū l-Faḍl was the second son of Shaykh Mubārak Nagawrī (911-1001/1505 or 1506-93), one