Kamal Khan Rustami
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Kamal Khan Rustami (fl. 1649) was a poet in the Sultanate of Bijapur, who wrote in Deccani and Persian.[1]
In 1647, the court poets were asked by queen Khadija Sultana to make a Deccani translation of Muhammad ibn Husam's 15th-century Persian prose Khavarannama ("Book of the East"), which focused on the campaigns of the venerated Shia figure Ali. Presented under a slightly altered title, Rustami's Khavarnama (1649) was the work that won the competition.[2] This poem is the longest masnavi written in Deccani, with over 24,000 verses.[3] It is considered a translation even though it differs from the Persian original in some ways.[4]
