Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak

Abu 'l- Fazl ibn Mubarak (* 1551, † August 1602 ) was a chronicler and historiographer in the Indian Mughal Empire.

He is detectable since the 1570s in the context of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great ( 1556-1605 ), where he, for example, the syncretic Muslim- Hindu religion creation ( din -i ilahi ) justified its ruler against Islamic religious scholars. A religious background also had the run of Abu 'l- Fazl 1574 creation of a ruler's translation agencies, the religious texts translated from Sanskrit into Persian. Since about 1580 belonged Abu 'l- Fazl 's closest advisers for the Mughal Emperor, which probably manifested itself in a new ruling ideology Akbar.

From 1589/1590 ( Akbar - nama, " The Akbarbuch ," " Chronicle of the reign of Akbar " ) wrote Abu 'l- Fazl at the request of Akbar an imperial chronicle, which due to the Sultan and his policies and praised with great rhetorical skill.

The A 'in -i Akbari ( " The measures taken by Akbar " ) contains five books:

Abu 'l- Fazl was on a journey from the Deccan Plateau country to Delhi from his adversary Selim, who later became the Mughal emperor Jahangir, attacked and murdered in August 1602.