Madhumalati

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Lovers shoot at a tiger in the jungle. Illustration to the mystical Sufi text Madhumalati. Meister des Madhu-Malati-Manuskripts 001.jpg
Lovers shoot at a tiger in the jungle. Illustration to the mystical Sufi text Madhumalati.

"Madhumalati" or 'night flowering jasmine' [1] is an Indian Sufi love poem, written in 1545 by Mir Sayyid Manjhan Shattari Rajgiri. [2] The poem is written in Awadhi dialect. [1]

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  1. 1 2 Manjhan (2001-02-01). Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance. OUP Oxford.
  2. ↑ Behl, Aditya (2012). Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545. OUP USA. p. 23. ISBN   9780195146707 . Retrieved 10 December 2017.


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