Abdul Hamid Lahori

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Abdul Hamid Lahori was a traveller during the period of Shah Jahan who later became a court historian of Shah Jahan. He wrote the book Padshah Nama, about the Shah Jahan's period. He has described Shah Jahan's life and activities during the first twenty years of his reign in this book. Abdul Hamid Lahori calls the glass pieces of the Shish Mahal of the Agra Fort as glass pieces "shishye halabi" because Haleb was the original name of Aleppo (Syria) which was the main centre for manufacturing these glasses. He was a good scholar. He also had good knowledge of science and astronomy. Abdul Hamid was called Lahori because from Lahore, Punjab in modern Pakistan.