Who composed the famous 'tazkira' (biographical account of saints) Akhbar-ul-Akhyar? |
Amir Hasan Sijzi Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi Abdul Haq Muhaddis Dehlavi Mir Khwurd Kirmani |
Abdul Haq Muhaddis Dehlavi |
The correct answer is Option (3) → Abdul Haq Muhaddis Dehlavi Tazkiras (literally, “to mention and memorialise”; biographical accounts of saints) – The fourteenth-centurySiyar-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). The authors of the tazkiras often sought to establish the precedence of their own orders and glorify their spiritual genealogies. Many details are often implausible, full of elements of the fantastic. Still they are of great value for historians and help them to understand more fully the nature of the tradition. |