ʿInāyat Khān (lit., lord favour) was a Mughal title bestowed on two officials of the empire. Muḥammad Ṭāhir ʿInāyat Khān (d. 1082/1671), under the pen name (takhalluṣ) Āshnā, was the author of the Mulakhkhaṣ-i Shāh-Jahān-nāma ("Summary chronicle of Shāh Jahān"). ʿInāyat Khān was distantly related to the emperor Shāh Jahān (r. 1037-68/1628-58), his mother being a niece of Shāh Jahān's wife Mumtāz Maḥall (d. 1041/1631). His grandfather, Khwāja Abū l-Ḥasan (d. 1042/1632-3), and his father, Ẓafar Khān (d.