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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 Sufi texts which literally means 'uttered'; conversations of Sufi saints, which are compiled by different sufi silsilas with the permission of the shaikhs?

Malufuzat

The correct answer is Option 2 - Malufuzat

Malfuzat (literally, “uttered”; conversations of sufi saints) – An early text on malfuzat is the Fawa’id-al-Fu’ad, a collection of conversations of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya, compiled by Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi, a noted Persian poet. Malfuzats were compiled by different sufi silsilas with the permission of the shaikhs; these had obvious didactic purposes. Several examples have been found from different parts of the subcontinent, including the Deccan. They were compiled over several centuries.