Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Bhakti Sufi Traditions

Question:

Read the passage and answer the question:

We have seen that historians draw on a variety of sources to reconstruct histories of religious traditions – these include sculpture, architecture, stories about religious preceptors, compositions attributed to women and men engaged in the quest of understanding the nature of the Divine.A wide range of texts were produced in and around sufi khanqahs. These included: Treatises or manuals dealing with sufi thought and practices, Malfuzat, Maktubat and Tazkiras. They are some of the varieties of sources used to reconstruct the history of sufi traditions.

What is the name of the 'first Sufi tazkira' written in India?

Options:

Tazkira-e-Aala Hazrat

Siyar-ul-Auliya

Tazkira-e-llahi

None of the above

Correct Answer:

Siyar-ul-Auliya

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - Siyar-ul-Auliya

Tazkiras (literally, “to mention and memorialise”; biographical accounts of saints) – The fourteenth-century Siyar-ul-Auliya of Mir Khwurd Kirmani was the first sufi tazkira written in India. It dealt principally with the Chishti saints. The most famous tazkira is the Akhbar-ul-Akhyar of Abdul Haqq Muhaddis Dehlavi (d. 1642).