Khvandamir — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Khvandamir (Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad); it gives his life as 1475/76-1535/36, his birth at Herat, his death at Delhi and burial near the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya, and states that his loss of office after the Safavid conquest of Herat was most likely for religio-political reasons, as Khvandamir was a Sunni Muslim whereas the Safavids were zealous Shia Muslims.

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