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Evaluate the Malfuzat texts as sources of medieval history.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Malfuzat — literally "things spoken" — are Persian-prose records of the conversations, sermons, and spiritual counsel of Sufi masters, compiled chiefly by their disciples.

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  • Nature of the Genre
  • The Major Texts
  • Value as a Historical Source
  • A Corrective to Court-Centred Chronicles
  • A Window on Popular and Syncretic Religion
  • Evidence of State-Society Relations
  • …and 7 more sections, with a conclusion

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