The Heritage of Sufism: Late classical Persianate Sufism ...
Leonard Lewisohn
THE 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 ...