Āzurda - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Āzurda - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Liddle, Swapna

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1063321
Doc. NO	:	ALei3718
Main Entry	:	Liddle, Swapna
Title & Author	:	Āzurda - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Liddle, Swapna
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(561 words)
Abstract	:	Āzurda was the pen name of Muhammad Ṣadr al-Dīn Khān (1789–1868), born in Delhi into an illustrious family of Kashmiri extraction. He studied under the noted scholars Shāh ʿAbd al-Azīz (d. 1823) and Faḍl-i Imām Khayrābādī (d. 1827). On completing his education he entered the service of the East India Company’s administration. By 1816–7 he was a ṣadr amīn (subordinate civil judge), and in the 1830s he became principal ṣadr amīn , the highest judicial position open to Indians at the time. Apart from his
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3718.pdf