Iltifat Khan

Murad Khan, also Sultan Murad Mirza Iltifat Khan and Mirza Mukarram Khan Safavi, often simply Iltifat Khan, was a son of Rustam Mirza Safavi, a noble of Safavid ancestry at the court of the Mughal Empire. Rustam Mirza Safavi, at the age of sixteen, had married a noblewoman from the prominent Sheykhavand family in 1581.

Murad Khan received the title of "Iltifat Khan" from the Mughal Emperor Jahangir. He then received the title of "Mukarram Khan" in the 27th year of the reign of Shah Jahan, circa 1655. Iltifat Khan is said to have been well-connected at the Mughal court, through his marriage and the marriages of his daughters. He married the daughter of the Mughal notable 'Abdur-Rahim Khan-i Khanan.

His fine, realistic, portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the result of Akbar's insistence on the creation of life-like depictions, in contradiction with the precepts of religious orthodoxy.

Iltifat Khan took really retirement and died in Patna in 1657, or in 1669.