Muhammed Azam Didamari

Khwaja Muhammad Azam Kaul Didamari (died 1765) was a Sufi Kashmiri writer in the Persian language. Khwaja means "master", Didamari means from the Didamar quarter of Srinagar.^[1]

His history entitled Waqiat-i-Kashmir (The Story of Kashmir), also known after the writer's name as Tarikh-i-Azami (History by Azam), was published in Persian in 1747.^[2][3] Urdu translations were published by Munshi Ashraf Ali (Delhi, 1846),^[4] and Khwaja Hamid Yazdani (Jammu, 1988).^[5] After his death his son Khwaja Muhammad Aslam added to the work with his Gauhar-i-Alam (Jewels of the World).^[6]