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Firoz Shah Tughlaq ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1351 to 1388 CE. During his reign, along with administrative and architectural activities, interest was also shown in the patronage of education, literature and different traditions of knowledge.

During his reign, Firoz Shah undertook a military campaign towards Nagarkot, or Kangra. The Jwalamukhi temple in the Nagarkot region was also associated with an important collection of books at that time. A large number of Sanskrit manuscripts came into his possession during the campaign.

These Sanskrit works contained material relating to philosophy, astronomy, divination and other subjects. Firoz Shah ordered the translation of Sanskrit works into Persian.

This translation activity was associated with Azizuddin Khan, whose name also occurs in different historical sources in forms such as Izzuddin Khalid Khani / Aziz-ud-din Khalid.

The translated work was given the title Dalail-i-Firuzshahi. Thus, an attempt was made to make Sanskrit knowledge-literature accessible to the Persian-speaking courtly and scholarly world.

Talib Amuli belonged to a much later period and was a Persian poet during the reign of Jahangir. Therefore, he was not associated with this 14th-century translation activity under Firoz Tughlaq. Similarly, Mulla Abdul Baqi and Mirza Muhammad Ali are not the correct answers for this translation.

Hence, the scholar associated with the translation of the Sanskrit books obtained during Firoz Tughlaq's Nagarkot campaign was Azizuddin Khan.