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Muhammad Yusuf ibn Khawajah Baqa was a historian and munshi (court secretary) active in the mid-17th–early 18th centuries in the court of Muqim Khan, the khan of Balkh (reigned circa 1702–7), in the north of present-day Afghanistan. Munshi Muhammad Yusuf is known for his Taz̲kirah-ʼi muqīmʹkhānī (History of Muqim Khan), an account chronicling the political, cultural, and social history of Transoxania during the reigns of the Shaybanids (circa 1500–99) and their successors, the Astrakhanids (circa 1599–1747), both Turco-Mongol dynasties. Known to the Greeks and Romans ...