Kashmir

A Kashmiri scholar of hadith who led Darul Uloom Deoband as its principal and chief teacher of hadith from 1915 to 1927. His major works, including the four-volume Fayd al-Bari on Sahih al-Bukhari, were transcribed from his lectures by his students.

Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) succeeded his father Akbar as the fourth Mughal emperor. His reign is remembered for the flourishing of Mughal painting, his marriage to Nur Jahan, the memoir he kept of his own reign, and the steady growth of European trading contact through the English East India Company.