1613 – c. 1630) was a chronicler at the court of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir where he compiled a Persian history of the Afghans, the Makhzan-i-Afghani.
[2] He was a waqia navis (news-writer) in the Mughal service, and belonged to an urban Iranian family hailing from Herat.
[3] The original material for the book was provided by Haibat Khan of Samana, under whose patronage Nimatullah made the compilation c.
Nimat Allah divided Afghans into three major lineages: Bettani, Sarbani and Gharghusht.
[7] There is another partial translation from 1958, Nirodbhusan Roy titled, Niamatullah's History of the Afghans.