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Azad 69 'Azid "Kasaed 'TJzza", " Sab-hat-ul-Mirjan," "Khazana 'Amira," and " Tazkira Sarv 'Azad." He died in the year 1786 A. D., 1200 A. H. Azad, the poetical name of Captain Alexander Hider- ley, in the service of the Eaja of Alwar. He was a good poet and has left a small Diwan in Urdii. His father's name is Mr. James Hiderley and his brother's Thomas Hiderley. He died on the 7th of July 1861, Zilhij 1277 A. H., at Alwar, aged 32 years. Azad Khan, cJ^^ •^^J^j governor of Kashmir of the Afghan tribe, succeeded his father Haji Karim Dad, a domestic oiEcer of Ahmad Shah Abdalf, and who was at the death of that prince advanced to the government of Kashmir by Taimur Shah, as a reward for quelHng the rebellion of Amir Khan the former governor. Azad Khan was only 18 years of age (in 1783) when he was governor of Kashmir', but his acts of ferocity exceeded common belief. 'Azaeri, vickUzievL Azal, Jj'j poetical name of MirzS, Muhammad Amin who died in 1728 A. D., 1141 A. H. »Azd-uddin (Kazi), tif^'^-'t ij^^, of Shiraz, author of several works, one of which is called the " Muwakif 'Azdia," a celebrated work in Arabic on Jurisprudence. He flourished in the time of Shah Abii Is-hak governor of Shiraz, to whom he dedicated the above work. Ho died A. D. 1355, 756 A. H. 'Azd-ud-daula, ^J<^ i^'^j, a Sultan of the Boyites, suc- ceeded his father Eukn-ud-daula in September, 976 A. D., Muharram, 366 A. H., to the government of Fars and 'Irak, as well as in the office of wazir or Amir-ul- Umra to the khalif Al-Taya Billah of Baghdad, in the room of his cousin Izz-ud-daula the ,son of Maizz-ud- daula, whom he killed in battle in 978 A. D., 367 A. H. He built the mausoleum of 'AH at Najaf Ashraf, em- bellished Baghdad and other places by magnificent public buildings, and died on Monday the 27th of March, 983 A. D., 8th Shawwal, 372 A. H., aged 47 lunar years. At his death the reigning khalif read the prayers at the funeral of this good and great man. His name is still fondly cherished in a country, over which he endeavoured during the reign of his father and his own, being a space of 34 years, to diffuse prosperity and joy. His power and possessions became from the moment of his death, a subject of contest between his brothers and nephews. 'Azim, the son of Mulla Kaidi, and a nephew of Mulla Naziri, was a Persian poet of Naishapur. He floui'ished about the year 1663 A. D., 1074 A. H-., and is the author of a Diwan, and a Masnawi called " Fauz Azim," vide Azi'm Naishapuri. 'Azim Jah (Nawab), »^(*if'='* Siraj-ul-Umra the son of Azim-ud-daula, Nawab of the Karnatic, was installed by the British Government as Nawab on the 3rd February, 1820. He died on the 12th November, 1825, aged 34 years. 'Azim Jah, Nawab of Arkat, died 14th January, 1874, aged 74. He was the second son of Azim Jah, one of the Nawabs of the Karnatic, and the uncle of the late Nawab Ghulam Muhammad Ghaus Khan. He received a pension of 2500 rupees from the Government. 'Azim-ud-daula (Nawab), (♦i^ of the Karnatic, was the son of Nawab Amfr-ul-Umra, the brother of Umdat-ul-Umra. On the death of Umdat-ul-Umra, the English resolved to take the functions of government into their own hands, 'Ali Husain the next heir refused to comply, consequently Ayim-ud-daula the nephew of the deceased was placed on the masnad by the British Government on the Slst of August, 1801. He died on the 2nd August, 1819, A. D. His son 'Azim Jah was in- stalled as Nawab of the Karnatic on the 3rd February, 1820, A. D. In 1698, he allowed the Company to pur- chase the zamindarship of Sutanuti, Calcutta and Govind- piir. 'Azim-ul-ITmra, tr*^'/^^^, minister of the Nizam of Hydarabad. He succeeded Eukn-ud-daula about the year 1794 A. D. • 'Azim-uUah Khan, ^ (*^^, says Mr. Sheppard in his Narrative of the Mutiny, was a charity boy, having been picked up, together with his mother, during the famine of 1837-38, when they were both in a dying state from starvation. The mother being a staunch heathen, she would not consent to her son being christened. He was adopted in the Kanpur Free School under Mr. Patan, School Master. After 10 years, he was raised to be a teacher. After some years he attached himself to the Nawab, who sent him to England for the purpose of making a last appeal. Failing in his endeavours, he returned to India breathing revenge in his heart. 'Azimush Shan, (Arabic characters), second son of the emperor Bahadur Shah of Dehli. He was appointed by his grand- father, the emperor 'Alamgfi-, governor of Bengal ; he made Patna the seat of his government and named it Azimabad. On the news of his grandfather's death, leaving his own son Farrukhsiar (afterwards emperor) to superintend the affairs of that country, he came to Agra, and was present in the battle which took place between his father and his uncle 'Azim Shah in June 1707, A. D., 1119 A. H. He was slain in the battle which ensued after his father's death between Jahandar Shah and his other brothers in the month of February 1712, O. S., Muharram 1124, A. H. His second son Muhammad Karim was taken prisoner after the battle, and murdered by order of Jahandar Shah who ascended the thi-one. 'Aziz, y^y^j whose proper name was Abdiil Aziz Khan, was a native of Dakhan. He is the author of a Diwan, also of a prose composition called " Gulshan Eang." 'Aziz Koka (Mirza), ^OO-J-^ tbe foster-brother of the emperor Akbar, vide 'Azim Khan, the son of Khan 'Azim commonly called Anka Khan. 'Aziz-uUah Zahidi, (Arabic characters), author of a Masnawi which he composed in the year 1407 A. D., 810 A. H. He is commonly called Aziz. 'Azid le din-allah-bin-Yusaf-bin-Hafiz, ^'sW v_ft«^j aUI (^<J</ tVoU^ the eleventh and last khalif of Egypt of the Fatimite dynasty, succeeded his father Faez- bi-nasr-allah I'sa bin-Zafir in the year 1158 A. D., 553 A. H. But the state of affairs in Egypt was now tottering to its fall. The descendants of 'Ali from the death of AJ- Musta'ali Billah A. D. 1101, had become puppets in the hands of their wazir or Amir-ul-Jayush (generalissimo), who wielded all the regal authority of the state : two Amirs, Dargam and Shawar, had contested in arms this high dignity ; and the latter, defeated and expelled from Egypt, sought refuge and aid from Niir-uddin styled Malik-ul-'Adil Nur-uddin Mahmud, the celebrated ruler of Syria. The sovereign of Damascus eagerly embraced the opportunity of obtaining a footing in Egypt, and in 1163 A. D., 558 A. H., despatched a force under Asad-ud- din Shirakoh (the brother of Aiyiib) and his nopiicw Salah-uddin to reinstate Shawar ; whose rival c died in the Christians of Palestine to his support : but ere Amauri (the brother and successor of Baldwin III) could