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Sufis Classics - II

About Book - The book opens with a critical examination of the career of Salar Mas'ud of Bahraich as depicted in Mir,at-i-Mas'udi. It is followed with English translations of some Urdu articles and notes on Salar Mas'ud and three Persian classical works on sufism entitled Tohfatus Sa'd, Fawaid-i-Sadiyah and Malfoozat Shah Maina, populary known as Shah Meena, and partial translation of the notes taken from Behr-i-Zakhkhar to highlight the lives and teachings of some well known and unknown and sparingly referred and not referred sufis in classical and modern works on sufism. Majma'us-sulook of Sa'd Khairabadi, a selection from which entitled Fawaid-i-Sadiyah has been translated here, is a rarely written balanced work on sufism and has not so far been paid due attenction it deserves. Translations from Behr-i-Zakhkhar are based on such works which are not easily available and help us to know as to what these sources contain about 64 and odd personalities mentioned in the translation. The book also contains detailed genealogical tables about the family of Makhdoom Fakhr-ud-din Bijnori,.Shah Maina, Qudwai sufis of Dariabad and Siddiqis of Sidhdhaur and Saidanpur.
All the translated books also throw very invaluable light on the socio-economic-politico-cultural aspects of the days of the Sultans and Mughals.

 

About Author - Dr. Hamid Afaq Qureshi (b 2.7.1945), M.A. (History), M.A. (Pol.Sc.) & Ph.D. (History) is a well known Historian, who has published 93 research papers (45 on History of Awadh) on various aspects of the History of India in reputed Journals and Proceeding Volumes of History Congresses and Seminars. He helped 6 research scholars in completing their Ph.Ds. He was Joint Secretary, U.P. History Congress (1985-88) and a Member of the Executive Committees of South Indian History Congress (1988) and U.P. History Congress (1989). He is the author of the Flickers of an Independent Nawabi : Nawab Wazir Ali Khan of Avadh; The Mughals, The English & the Rulers of Awadh : A Kaleidoscopic Study; Sources on Awadh; Memoirs of Faizabad (Ed.) also containing histories of Kakori and Bijnor and Glimpses of Deccan & Awadh : Essays and Translations.

 

ISBN : 978-81-89267-86-5
Price : INR 525/-