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Ikbal Ali Shah
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah (, , born 1894 in Sardhana, India, died 4 November 1969 in Tangier, Morocco) was an Indian-Afghan author and diplomat descended from the Sadaat of Paghman. Educated in India, he came to Britain as a young man to continue his education in Edinburgh, where he married a young Scotswoman.
Travelling widely, Ikbal Ali Shah undertook assignments for the British Foreign Office and became a publicist for a number of Eastern statesmen, penning biographies of Kemal Atatürk, the
Begum, the sister of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
He produced an English translation of the first part of the "Bostan" of Saadi of Shiraz, published in London by the Octagon Press (the publishing firm of his cousin Idries Shah, the son of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah and grandson of Nawab Syed Amjad Ali Shah). Idries Shah recounts a story about his cousin in his book "Kara Kush" (in the chapter 'Mirza in a mulberry tree').
His only child was Adil Hussain Barlas