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Some Prominent Muslim Hindi Poets
More editionssion he is recognised as Malik Mohammad but he appears as Guftar MianManjhan in the copy preserved in Ekadla, Fatehpur District, while the manuscript lying in the National Archives, New Delhi presents him in a surprisingly reduced form as ''Manjhan'' only. In all probability "Manjhan" seems to be the title of the poet and he is likely to have been associated with any one of the names mentioned in the manuscripts. But it seems as if with the passage of time the growing popularity of ...
Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance
ManjhanAn Indian Sufi Romance Manjhan Aditya Behl, Simon Weightman ... Dr Rizvi enthusiastically shared his knowledge of the Hindavı ̄ Sufi romances with us, helping Aditya Behl to check the printed edition of the text line by line against a ...
The Kingdom of Ahmadnagar
Radhey ShyamBut Manjhan Khan, the Abyssinian commander who had been holding the fort for the last twenty years, opposed him on the pretext that he was in league with the Mughals. In fact it was the commander who was in league with Ambar''s enemies and extremely keen to bring about his fall. All attempts of Malik Ambar to convince Manjhan Khan of his loyalty to Nizam Shah, having failed and in order to prevent the boy king from going over to conspirators, he put him under surveillance.
The Indian Narrative: Perspectives and Patterns
PreviewMuhammad Farmuli and his younger brother, Musan, Surdas and many other learned scholars and poets assembled there and poems in Arabic, Persian and Hindi were recited.3 Whereas the historicity of the Afsana-e shahan is often unreliable on the subject of Mir Sayyid Manjhan, its author Muhammad Kabir was on surer ground because his maternal grandfather, Shaikh Khalil Haqqani, of whom he gives a detailed account, was the spiritual disciple of Mir Sayyid Manjhan in ...
The Heritage of Sufism: Late classical Persianate Sufism ...
Leonard LewisohnTHE AUTHOR OF MADHUMALATI, MlR SAYYID MANJHAN RAJGIRl The natural hostility of the Mughal historians towards these upstart Afghans perhaps explains the paucity of information available on the subject of Manjhan, the author of Madhumalati. The only independent reference to him occurs in the Afsdn-e Shahan of Muhammad KabTr, in the section dealing with Islam Shah, the son of Sher Shah. He writes: "Wherever he [Islam Shah] happened to be, he kept himself ...
Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India
Nile GreenThis overlapping of the poetic and ritual symbolism of Sufi Islam with other life- cycle rituals was seen in a sixteenth century poem composed in Hindwi, the celebrated Madhumalati of the north Indian Sufi Manjhan (fl.1545), written at the court of the Indo-Afghan sultans. In this important marker of the transference of the bridal spiritual symbolism from the Persian to the vernacular register in India, Manjhan describes the wedding chamber in which two of his poem''s allegorical characters ...
Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance
ManjhanThe mystical romance Madhumalati tells the story of a prince, Manohar, and his love for the beautiful princess Madhumalati.
Hindi literature from its beginnings to the nineteenth century
Ronald Stuart McGregorRonald Stuart McGregor. nurse.141 A sense of the value of mystical love is if anything more insistently stressed in Manjhan than in his predecessors. For Mafijhan''s Manohar, longing (virah) is a gift made to man by God''s grace. The poet tells us that the bird of love that flew from man''s heart at the creation found no resting-place and returned there frustrated: but he implies that there is hope in the pain of the longing man feels when separated from God.142 The importance of man in the ...
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