Haji Mohi-ud-din Miskin

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Haji Mohi-ud-Din Miskin (died in Srinagar, 1921) also Ghulam Mohiuddin was a Kashmiri poet who also wrote a history of Kashmir, Tarikh-i-Kabir (completed 1892, published 1900). [1] [2] [3] [4] He is the first, after Mirza Ghulam Ahmad himself (1899), to record identification of the Roza Bal tomb with Jesus: "Others believe that it is [the] tomb of a great Prophet who is no other than Hazrat Isa [Jesus], the Spirit of God.” (1902).

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References

  1. Sisir Kumar Das A History of Indian Literature: 1800-1910 1991 - Page 535 "Haji Mohiuddin Miskin (d. 1921), a noted poet."
  2. G. M. D. Sufi - Islamic culture in Kashmir 1979 - Page 34 "Different people have attributed different motives6 to Renchan Shah, for adopting Islam into the details of which 5 Haji Mohi-ud-Din Miskin in Tarikh-i-Kabir, p. 289. 6 For instance, it is alleged by some (Kirpa Ram and Narain Koul) that ..."
  3. Mohammad Ishaq Khan History of Srinagar, 1846-1947: a study in socio-cultural change 1978 - Page 193 "Among them Ghulam Nabi Shah Khanyari and Haji Mohi-ud-din Miskin deserve special mention. Khanyari wrote Wajeez-ut-Tawarikh.7 It contains useful matter pertaining to the social, economic and political history of the Sikh and earlier part of the Dogra rule in Kashmir."
  4. Mohammad Ishaq Khan History of Srinagar, 1846-1947: a study in socio-cultural change 1978- Page 193 "Miskin lived at Sara-i-bala in Srinagar. He wrote his Tarikh-i-Kabir-i-Kashmir* in 1892. Miskin's work is a running summary in one handy volume of the political, religious and literary history of Kashmir."