Very little is known about the two secretaries of the embassy sent by Tipu Sultan to Constantinople, Khwaja Abdul Qadir, who wrote the Waqai-i Manazil-i Rum, and Sayyid Jafar.
Shireen Moosvi is professor of history at Aligarh Muslim University and is the author of The Mughal Empire, c. 1595: A Statistical Study (1987) and Taxation, Trade and People in Mughal India (2008)