Mullah Nadri or Mulla Nasiri (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1420 CE) was a Persian-language poet in

Kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...

during the reign of

Sultan Sikandar Sikandar Shah (Sikandar Butshikan – "Sikandar, the Iconoclast") was the sixth sultan of the Shah Miri dynasty of Kashmir from 1389 to 1413. Sources The only contemporaneous source that exists is the Rajatarangini (lit. Flow of Succession o ...

(1378–1416, reigned 1389–1413) and then at the court of Zain-ul-Abidin (1423–1473). He wrote several lost books, including a lost ''

Tarikh-i-Kashmir The ''Tarikh-i-Kashmir'' (History of Kashmir) refers to several history books of Kashmir's Sultanate period, some of them lost and partially used as sources for the others. Lost sources Earlier lost sources include; * History of Mullah Ahmad Kash ...

'', ( history of Kashmir). The Persian accounts of Mulla Nadiri, as with those of Mulla Ahmad Kashmiri, Qazi Ibrahim and Hasan Qari (1580 AD), together with the Sanskrit chronicles of Jonaraja (d. 1659 CE) and his pupil Srivara (dates unknown), served as sources for 17th Century histories - the ''Tarikh-i-Kashmir'' of

Hasan b. Ali Kashmiri Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to: People *Hassan (given name), Arabic given name and a list of people with that given name *Hassan (surname), Arabic, Jewish, Irish, and Scottis ...

(1616 CE), the Baharistan-i-Shahi, and the ''Tarikh-i-Kashmir'' of

Haidar Malik Haidar Malik Chadurah (died 1627) was an administrator, and soldier in Kashmir in the service of Salim Nuruddin Jahangir, the fourth Mughal Emperor from 1605 until his death in 1627. Haidar Malik wrote the best known Persian-language history of ...

(Persian 1621, English 1991).Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi Challenges to Religions and Islam 2007- Page 1398 "Apart from the Baharistan-i-Shahi, the author has availed the Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Hasan b. Ali Kashmiri, which is a short history of Kashmir from the earliest times to 1616, written at the request of Jalal-ud-Din Malik Muhammad Naji, the grandfather of Haidar Malik. However, Hasan bin. 'Alis' sources are the same as those of the author of the Baharistan. He has consulted also the chronicles written by Haidar Malik, who served Yusuf Khan Chak, for twenty-four years and accompanied him in his exile to India after the Mughal conquest of ... this work, the Baharistan-i-Shahi and Hasan b. Alis' chronicle shows that their authors obtained information from the same sources. The sources of these three books are the Sanskrit chronicles of Jonaraja and Srivara, as well as the Persian accounts of Mulla-Ahmad, Mulla-Nadiri, Qazi Ibrahim and Hasan Qari."

References

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