Kashmir

A Kashmiri scholar of hadith who rose to be chief teacher and shaykh al-hadith at Darul Uloom Deoband, and led it after 1915. His lectures became the Arabic commentaries Fayd al-Bari on Sahih al-Bukhari and al-Arf al-Shadhi on Jami al-Tirmidhi.

Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) succeeded Akbar as the fourth Mughal emperor. He issued twelve ordinances, hung a chain of justice at Agra, blinded and then had physicians treat his rebel son Khusrau, shared government with Nur Jahan, lost Kandahar to Iran, and kept a candid memoir of his reign.