'Malfuzat' an important source for constructing history is _________.

The correct answer is Option (1) → A record of conversations of sufi saints.

'Malfuzat' an important source for constructing history is a record of conversations of sufi saints.

 

Varieties of sources used to reconstruct the history of sufi traditions:

1.Treatises or manuals dealing with sufi thought and practices
2. Malfuzat (literally,  “uttered”; conversations of sufi saints)
3. Maktubat (literally, “written” collections of letters); letters written by sufi masters, addressed to their disciples and associates
4. Tazkiras (literally, “to mention and memorialise”; biographical accounts of saints

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.