Khayrkhvāh-i Harātī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Virani, Shafique N.
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Muḥammad Riḍā b. Sulṭān Ḥusayn, Khayrkh v āh-i Harātī (d. after 960/1553) was a Nizārī Ismāʿīlī author, poet, and claimant to the position of "proof" (ḥujjat) in the Ismāʿīlī religious hierarchy (ḥudūd-i dīn) . His poetic pen name was Gharībī, after the thirty-fourth Ismāʿīlī Imām Gharīb Mīrzā, also known as Mustanṣir bi-llāh (d. 904/1498). In his prose work, he adopted the sobriquet Khayrkh v āh (well-wisher). His writings, all in Persian, give us significant insights into tenth/sixteenth century Ismāʿīlī history and thought and