Moulana Isami: The first Poet of Bahmani Sultanate: Isami: The first great poet of the Bahmani period is ‘Isami’, the composer of ‘Futuh-us-Salatin’ or the Shah Nama of medieval Muslim India. Though the great Firdousian epic had a number of major and minor imitations, in its own native soil, no masnawi on its model was attempted by any Indian poet before ‘Isami. The first versified history in Persian of the Muslim conquest of India, narrating events from the advent of Islam upto the establishment of the Bahmani regime was composed in the Deccan. Futh-us-Salatin was written at Daulatabad in A.H 751 at the behest of Sultan Alauddin Bahmani, to whom it was dedicated also. This voluminous masnawi of about 12000 verses was completed in a very short time of five months and nine days an average of about 80 verses composed per day. Excepting Amir Khusrau, who is proverbial for his speedy versification, no other poet, so far as is known, has composed such a voluminous work in so short a time. Futuh-us-Salatin: It is the first comprehensive work of the history of medieval India written two and a half centuries before the Tabaqat-i-Akbari or Tarikh-i-Ferishtah. Though Isami has not mentioned even a single source of authority for his work, a close study of his history reveals that he has utilized Amir Khusrau’s Miftah-ul-Futuh, Qiran-us-Sadayn and Khizarkhan-Duwalrani. Being the first compendium of medieval Indian history, Futuh-us-Salatin is unquestionably a work of unique importance to historians of medieval Indian history. Photo :Gulbarga Fort mosque.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:46:27 +0000
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