Hikmat-i Khaqaniyya

Baha? al-Din Isfahani (d. 1137/1725), better known as Fadil Hindi, was born into a comfortable home in Isfahan. Being a particularly precocious child, he completed his studies in the traditional and the foreign sciences by the age of thirteen, even carrying the title of mujtahid (someone authorized to issue legal opinions in Shi?i Islam). He then accompanied his father to the court of the Mughal e...