The Indian Narrative: Perspectives and Patterns
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Muhammad 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 ...