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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.

Which of the following is an example of treatises or manuals dealing with Sufi thought and practices?

Kashf-ul-Mahjub

The correct answer is Option 3 - Kashf-ul-Mahjub

Treatises or manuals dealing with sufi thought and practices – The Kashf-ul-Mahjub of Ali bin Usman Hujwiri (died c. 1071) is an example of this genre. It enables historians to see how traditions outside the subcontinent influenced sufi thought in India.