Khoja Zufar or Coje Çafar, also called Coge Sofar, or Safar Aga in Portuguese, Cosa Zaffar in Italian, and Khwaja Safar Salmani in Turkish or Khuádja Tzaffar in Arabic, was a soldier and local ruler in Western India during the 16th century. He was a leader in the failed Siege of Diu. Zufar was an experienced merchant with the distant markets of the Arabian Gulf around the Strait of Mecca and Lepanto at the Mediterranean.
Drawing from 1899-1905
"Portuguese drawing of Khoja Zufar (Coge Cofar) from 1798"
The siege of Diu occurred when an army of the Sultanate of Gujarat under Khadjar Safar, aided by forces of the Ottoman Empire, attempted to capture the city of Diu in 1538, then held by the Portuguese. The Portuguese successfully resisted the four months long siege. It is part of the Ottoman-Portuguese war.
First siege of Diu. Suleiman, Ottoman general, is constrained to lift it, and run away. Lithograph by Manuel Luís da Costa, 1840
Portuguese depiction of a Gujarati foot-soldier (and his wife)
"Tiro de Diu", a Gujarati basilisk captured by the Portuguese in the 1538 siege.
16th century Portuguese sketch of Diu by Dom João de Castro.