The Hazāra of Muḥammad Khwāja (Persian: هزارهٔ محمد خواجه) is one of the major tribes of the ethnic Hazara, originating and inhabiting mainly from Ghazni, Afghanistan.
Emir Muhammad Khwaja (Persian: امیر محمد خواجه) belonged to the TimuridBarlas confederation. His ancestral homeland is Kesh, Turkistan in present day Uzbekistan. Emir Muhammad Khwaja was the son of Emir Haji Saifuddin[3] who was wazir of Timur in the beginning and later became governor of Qandahar now in Afghanistan. His great-grandfather, Haji Beig Barlas, was the leader of Barlas, who overthrew Qara'unas Abdullah from power in southern Chagatai Khanate. Abdullah, who had recently taken power, was young and inexperienced, and his move to Kesh threatened Haji Beig Barlas.
Emir, Khan, Mirza, Beig, Shah, Ghazi, and Sultan are titles to his tribes and descendants to date, but Emir and Mirza are titles specific to his family.
Emir Muhammad Khwaja was the commander in chief of the army of Babur. He is well known as "Khwaja-e bozorg" (the great Khwaja). His names appears in many historical script including Baburnama.
Emir Muhammad Khwaja served as commander in chief of Babur’s army during his struggle to capture Delhi in each battle, including the last one in Panipat. Emir preferred the continental weather in central Asia and could never adjust to the hot weather of Delhi. It has been recorded that Emir lived in Sharan now in Paktia, Afghanistan and many of his descendants scattered from there to other parts of the country.
Emir Muhammad Khwaja died on 1599 in Sharan, Paktia and was buried there.
^Timur and the Timurids, Svat Soucek, Princeton University, New Jersey, Publisher Cambridge University Press. p. Timur was born around 1336 in Transoxania near Kesh – later known as Shahrisabz – in the Kashka Darya region of what is today the Republic of Uzbekistan. He was a Turk of the Barlas tribe; this tribe, like many others, boasted a Mongol name and ancestry, but for all practical purposes it was Turkic.
^Eckmann, János (1966). Sebeok, Thomas A. (ed.). Chagatay Manual. Uralic and Altaic Series. Vol. 60. Indiana University Publications. p. 6.
^Page 478, Book III, The History of Timur-Bec, by Sharaf al-din Ali Yazdi
^Kitab-e Tadakkor-e Enqilab, Translation: Shkirando as "Kniga Upominanii o Myatezhe" Moscow, 1988. p. 20
