Neknam Khan

Neknam Khan was the Iranian-born sipahsalar of the Sultanate of Golconda. A native of Gilan or Mazandaran, he initially served in the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir before moving to Golconda in 1634/35. There he worked under its ruler Abdullah Qutb Shah, as well as briefly Mir Jumla II. He supported the Iranian theologian and historian Ali ibn Tayfur Bistami, who dedicated the Ganjnama dar hall-i-lughat-i-shahnama to him. It was a dictionary for the outdated words used in the Persian epic Shahnameh.