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Abdul Malik Isami

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At Daulatabad, Isami was appalled with what he perceived as Tughluq's misdeeds and tyranny. At one point, he decided to migrate to Mecca, but he was determined to write a history of Muslim rule in India before leaving the country. He aspired to emulate the famous Persian poet
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population of Delhi to move to Daulatabad, and that only 10% of the migrants survived the journey. Both these claims appear to be exaggerations. According to Isami, this unfortunate situation was a result of God's punishment to the corrupt Muslims.
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of India"). According to Isami, his sources included anecdotes, legends, and reports by his friends and acquaintances. Unlike several earlier chronicles, the book's language is devoid of "rhetorical artifices and unpleasant exaggeration".
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in 1349. Isami claims to have composed its 12,000 verses in 5 months. According to him, he started writing the book on 10 December 1349, and completed it on 14 May 1350. Nothing is known about Isami's life after this point.
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in Deccan region. Several residents of Delhi, including Isami's family, were ordered to move to Daulatabad. His 90-year-old grandfather died during this journey.
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leaders affected the fortunes of a kingdom. For example, he attributes to the decline of the Delhi Sultanate to the death of the Sufi saint
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Despite these defects, Isami's book is a valuable source of information about the political history and social life of 14th century India.
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Isami is highly critical of Muhammad bin Tughluq. On the other hand, he calls his patron Bahman Shah as the rightful
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Bhanwarlal Nathuram Luniya (1969). "Khwājā Abd Malik Isāmi and His Futuh-us-Salātin".
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Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center
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region, became Isami's patron. Isami thus became the earliest
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The position of Hindus under the Delhi Sultanate, 1206-1526
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Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century
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The book begins with an account of the conquests of the
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Under the patronage of Bahman Shah, he started writing
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14th-century historians of the medieval Islamic world
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A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000
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Index

Isami (historian)
Persian language
Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah
Bahmani Sultanate
Muslim conquest of India
Delhi
Baghdad
Iltutmish
Delhi Sultanate
Muhammad bin Tughluq
Daulatabad
Ferdowsi
Shahnameh
Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah
Bahmani Sultanate
Deccan
panegyrist
Shahnameh
Ghaznavid
Mahmud
Ghurid
Muhammad
masnavi
pre-determined
divine will
destiny
Sufi
Nizamuddin Auliya
Burhanuddin Gharib
Zainuddin Shirazi

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