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Most of the present-day historians have accepted Jauhar's version given in the India Office and the British Museum MSS.
Another important work is the history of the Kurds written by Sharaf Khan and known as Sharaf-Nama, which definitely asserts that for some time the Iranian Shah was thinking of putting Humayun to death.
8 Nizamu'd-din Ahmad in his Tabaqai-i-Akbari says that Bahram Mirza, brother of · the Shah, advised him to put Humayun to death.
'! · We thus find that it is only Jauhar, Allahdad Faizi Sarhindi and Sharaf Khan who have charged Shah Tahmasp for having contemplated the murder of Humayun.
Dr. Sukumar Ray is of opinion that the Iranian historians have purposely omitted the story of Humayun's forced conversion, as it "would darken the reputation of their monarch and stigmatize him as an intolerant bigot," and "Abu'l-Fazl, Nizamu'd-din and other Indian historians also ignore this fact which was certainly insulting to their monarch and offensive to their religious sentiments.
If Nizamu'd• din and Badayuni could dare write that Bahram Mirza instigated his brother to put Humayun to death, what prevented them from charging Sha~ Tahmasp directly for the same act?
''2' Then the story of Shah Tahmasp's attempt to convert Humayun as given by Jauhar differs widely in different manuscripts of his memoirs.
The Iranian Shah could very we11 hope to get Qandhar from the Mughals in return for military help given to their king.