Tadhkirat al-shu?ara?

Born into a family of scholars and literati in Samarqand, Muhammad 'Sultan' Mutribi Samarqandi (d. 1040/1630) regarded himself as a descendant of Arghun Aqa (d. 673/1275), viceroy of the Mongols in Khurasan. He received a broad education with an emphasis on literature and music, first in Samarqand and then in Bukhara. His major teacher in literature in Bukhara was Hasan Nithari Bukhara?i (d. 1004/1596). Mutribi is well-known for his Khatirat, recollections of his highly-polished conversations with the Mughal emperor Jahangir (d. 1627), which took place during his visit to him in Lahore in 1036/1626. The other work for which he is known is his Persian Tadhkirat al-shu?ara?, a biographical dictionary of some 343 poets, emirs, and sultans, mainly from Transoxania and Badakhshan. A unique source of information on its time and modelled on a similar work by his teacher, it is based on his direct acquaintance with most of the people it describes.