Abū Ṭālib Tabrīzī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū Ṭālib Khān Tabrīzī Iṣfahānī (1166-1220/1752 or 1753-1805 or 1806) was a Persian author and traveller born and raised in Lucknow, the son of Ḥājji Muḥammad Beg Khān (d. 1182/1768), an Iranian settled in India. He spent his early years in Murshidābād and in 1189/1775 after the accession of Āṣaf al-Dawla (r. 1189-1212/1775-97), of Awadh (Oudh) he was appointed district administrator of Etawa (on the Jamnā river, in what is today the southwestern portion of Uttar Pradesh state, in India) by