HISTOBLOG

TARIKH I FIROZE SHAHI

TARIK I FIROZE SHAHI WAS WRITTEN BY ZIAUDDIN BARANI. HE IS MORE POPULAR AS BARANI. THE WORK COVERS A PERIOD FROM 1259 TO 1352. HIS WORKS BEGINS WHERE MINHAJ HAD ENDED HIS WORK. HIS WORK IS RATED AS THE FINEST SOURCE OF EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA. HE WAS CONTEMPORARY OF AMIR KHUSRAU AND HIS ASSOCIATE ALSO. 

TABAQAT I NASIRI

TABAQAT I NASIRI WAS WRITTEN BY MINHAJ US SIRAJ JUZJANI. IT IS THE HISTORY OF ISLAM IN TWENTY THREE VOLUMES. THE HISTORY OF MUSLIM RULE IN INDIA STARTING FROM THE DESCRIPTION OF GHAZNI ROYAL DYNASTIES UPTO BALBAN AND SULTAN NASSIRUDDIN AND EARLY DAYS OF BALBAN AS A SULTAN IS GIVEN IN DEDICATED VOLUMES. IT CONTAINS DETAILS ABOUT MONGOL INVADERS AND THEIR NATURE. IT IS WRITTEN FOLLOWING THE CRAFT OF HISTORY.

TAJUL MA' THSIR

TAJ UL MA' ATHIR WAS WRITTEN BY TAJUD DIN HASAN NIZAMI, AN OFFICIAL OF THE COURT OF QUTBUDDIN AIBEK. THE AUTHOR WROTE THIS WORK ON THE ORDER OF THE SULTAN AIBEK. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS WORK IS THAT IT BEGINS WITH THE BATTLE OF TARAIN EVENT. IT MEANS, THAT AMONG ARABIC AND PERSIAN SOURCE, IT IS THE FIRST NARRATIVE OF HISTORY WHICH STARTS WITH THE BEGINNING OF MUSLIMS RULE IN INDIA. THE AUTHOR HAS USED A MIXTURE OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN LANGUAGE WHICH IMPARTS IT A DIFFERENT CHARACTER. IT REMAINED MOST SOUGHT AFTER BOOK DURING THE MAJOR PERIOD OF MUSLIM PERIOD BECAUSE OF THE INTERESTING CONTENTS AND PRESENTATION. IT DESCRIBES ABOUT MANY SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY TIME. FOR EXAMPLE, IT NARRATES THE FEATURE OF A MIRROR, THE GAME OF CHESS AND CHAMPAD AND THEN NUMEROUS FRUITS WHICH WERE POPULAR THEN. THE BOOK COVERED THE PERIOD OF MUSLIM RULE IN INDIA FROM 1191 TO 1217. IT HAS NOT DISCUSSED MUST ABOUT CENTRAL ASIAN POLITICAL EVENTS.