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Discuss the importance of Sufi literature as an important source of history.

  • UPSC 2023
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Sufi literature comprises several distinct genres — each with its own evidentiary strengths and its own source-critical pitfalls — and its value lies precisely in what court chronicles typically omit.

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  • Poetry and Belles-Lettres as Incidental Social Record
  • Limitations as a Historical Source

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