Fasih Khwafi

Fasih Ahmad ibn Jalal al-Din Muhammad Khwafi(died 1442) was aPersianbureaucrat and historian of theTimuridcourt. His major work wasMujmal i-Fasihi.

His lineage is obscure; his father's family was fromBakharz,and claimed descent from the Islamic prophetMuhammad;his mother was a native ofKhwafin theKhorasanregion of eastern Iran.She was the granddaughter of the warlord Khvaja Majd, who ruled in Khwaf in the early 14th-century.Moreoever, her family also claimed descent from theGhaznavidvizierAbu Nasr Mushkan.It was seemingly because of her illustrious descent that Fasih assumed thenisbaof Khwafi (meaning "from Khwaf" ).Despite his nisba, however, Fasih was from his father's birthplace of Bakharz, as reported by Uqayli. He was related to the bureaucratKhvaja Qivam al-Din Nizam al-Mulk Khvafi.

Sources

• Manz, Beatrice Forbes(2007).Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran.Cambridge University Press.ISBN978-1-139-46284-6.