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(The author of this work in his preface gives it the title of Padshah-nama, but, like several other histories of the reign of Jahan Shah, it is often called Shah-Jahan-nama, and sometimes more specifically Tarikh-i Shah-Jahani Dah-sala. The full name of the author is Muhammad Amin bin Abu-i Hasan Kazwini, but he is familiarly known as Aminai Kazwini, Aminai Munshi, , or Mirza Amina. He was the first who received orders to write a history of the reign of Shah Jehan. The orders were given, as he tells us, in the eighth year of Shah Jahan, and he complicated this work, comprising the history of the first ten years of the reign, and dedicated it to Shah Jahan Mughal Emperor's reign in the twentieth year.