Persian or Arabic

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‘Abd al-Razzaq. “Matla‘ al-sa‘dain” . Extracts in The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, translated and edited by H. M. Elliot and John Dowson, 4: 89–126. 8 vols. Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1964.

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——————. Akbar-nāma. Edited by Abdur Rahim. 3 vols. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1873–87. Translated by Henry Beveridge. 3 vols. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1897–1921. Reprint. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications, 1979.

Ahbar as-Sin wa al-Hind: Relations de la Chine et de l’Inde. Translated by Jean Sauvaget. Paris: Société d’édition “Les Belles Lettres” . 1948.

Ansari, ‘Abd al-Samad. Akhbār al-aṣfiyā. Khuda Bakhsh Library, Patna. Persian MS. No. 188. Compiled 1645.

Askari, S.H. “New Light on Rajah Ganesh and Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi of Jaunpur from Contemporary Correspondence of Two Muslim Saints” . Letters of Shaikh Nur Qutb-i ‘Alam and Ashraf Jahangir Simnani. Translated by S. H. Askari. Bengal Past and Present 57 (1948): 32–39.

Baḥr al-ḥayāṭ. India Office Library, London. Persian MS. No. 2002.

Balkhi, Mahmud b.Amir Wali. The Bahr ul-Asrar: Travelogue of South Asia. Edited by Riazul Islam. Karachi: University of Karachi, 1980.

Balkhi, Muzaffar Shams. Maktūbāt-i Muz̄affar Shams Balkhī. Persian MS. Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna. Acc. No. 1859.

Barani, Zia al-Din. Tārīkh-i Fīrūz Shāhī. Edited by Saiyid Ahmad Khan. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1862. Extracts in The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, translated and edited by H. M. Elliot and John Dowson, 3: 93–268. 8 vols. Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1964.

Chishti, ‘Abd al-Rahman. Mirāt al-asrār. Khuda Bakhsh Library, Patna. Persian MS. No. 204. Compiled 1654.

Dani, Ahmad Hasan. Bibliography of the Muslim Inscriptions of Bengal, Down to A.D. 1538. Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan 2. Dacca: Asiatic Society of Pakistan, 1957.

Dastūr al-‘amal-i ‘ālamgīrī. Persian MS. British Library, London. Add. 6599. Copy at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Department of History. RotographNo. 53.

Desai, Z.A. “Correct Attribution of the Two So-called Inscriptions of Nasirud-din Mahmud Shah II of Bengal” . Epigraphia Indica, Arabic and Persian Supplement (1973): 26–35.

——————. “An Early Thirteenth-Century Inscription from West Bengal” . Epigraphia Indica, Arabic and Persian Supplement (1975): 6–12.

——————. “The So-Called Chunakhali Inscription of Nasirud-din Mahmud Shah II of Bengal” . Epigraphia Indica, Arabic and Persian Supplement (1973): 36–43.

Dihlavi, ‘Abd al-Haq Muhaddis. Akhbār al-akhyār. Deoband, U. P.: Kitab Khana-yi Rahimia, 1915–16.

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Firdausi, Shaikh Shu‘aib. Manāqib al-aṣfiyā. Calcutta: Nur al-Afaq, 1895.

Firishta, Muhammad Qasim. Tārīkh-i Firishta. 2 vols. Lucknow: Nawal Kishor, 1864–65. Translated by John Briggs under the title History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India. 4 vols. London, 1829. Reprint. 3 vols. Calcutta: Editions Indian, 1966.

Haidar, Maulvi Muhammad Nasir al-Din. Suhail-i Yaman, or Tārīkh-i Jalālī. Persian MS. Muslim Sahitya Samsad, Sylhet. Compiled A.H. 1277 [A.D. 1860–61].

Hussain, S.S. “Some More New Inscriptions of Husain Shah from West Bengal,” Epigraphia Indica, Arabic and Persian Supplement (1975): 31–38.

Hujwiri, ‘Ali b.‘Uthman al-Jullabi al-. The Kashf al-Maḥjūb: The Oldest Persian Treatise on Sufiism. Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson. 1911. 2d ed. 1936. Reprint. London: Luzac, 1970.

Ibn Battuta, The Rehla of Ibn Battuta. Translated by Mahdi Husain. Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1953.

Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani. Inbā’ al-ghumr bi-anbā al-‘umr. 3 vols. Cairo: al-Majlis al-A‘lā li-l-Shu’ūn al-Islāmiyah, 1969.

Ikram, S.M. “An Unnoticed Account of Shaikh Jalal of Sylhet” . Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan 2 (1957): 63–68.

Inayat Khan. Shah Jahan Nama. Translated by A. R. Fuller. Edited by W. E. Begley and Z. A. Desai. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Jahangir. The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, or Memoires of Jahāngīr. Translated by Alexander Rogers. Edited by Henry Beveridge. 2d ed. 2 vols. in 1. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1968.

Jamali, Maulana. Siyar al-‘ārifīn. Delhi: Matba‘ Rizvi, 1893.

Kanun Daimer Nathi. Persian and Bengali MSS. Chittagong. Chittagong District Collectorate Record Room.

Karim, Abdul. Corpus of the Muslim Coins of Bengal, down to A.D. 1538. Asiatic Society of Pakistan Publication No. 6. Dacca: Asiatic Society of Pakistan, 1960.

——————. “Nur Qutb Alam’s Letter on the Ascendancy of Ganesa” . In Abdul Karim Sahitya-Visarad Commemoration Volume, edited by Muhammad Enamul Haq, 335–43. Dacca: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1972.

Kazim b. Muhammad Amin, Munshi Amin(d. 1681). ‘ālamgīr-nāma. Edited by Khadim Husain and ‘Abd al-Hai. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1868.

Mas‘udi. Les Prairies d’or [Murūj al-dhahab]. Translated by Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille. Corrected by Charles Pellat. Vol. 1. Paris: Société asiatique, 1962.

Minhaj-ud-Din Abu’l-‘Umar-i-‘Usman, Maulana. ṭabaḳāt-i-Nāṣirī: A General History of the Muhammadan Dynasties of Asia, Including Hindustan (810–1260). Translated by H. G. Raverty. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1881. Reprint. 2 vols. New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corp., 1970.

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Nathan, Mirza. Bahāristān-i ghaibī. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale. Sup. Pers. MS. No. 252. Photostat copies: Dhaka University Library, Dhaka; National Library, Calcutta, Sarkar Collection No. 60, Acc. No. 1327.

——————. Bahāristān-i-ghaybī: A History of the Mughal Wars in Assam, Cooch Behar, Bengal, Bihar and Orissa during the Reigns of Jahāngīr and Shāhjahān, by Mīrzā Nathan. Translated by M. I. Borah. 2 vols. Gauhati, Assam: Government of Assam, 1936.

Ni‘mat Allah, Khwajah. Tārīkh-i Khān Jahān wa makhzan-i Afghān. Edited by S. M. Imam al-Din. 2 vols. Asiatic Society of Pakistan Publication No. 4. Dacca: Asiatic Society of Pakistan, 1960.

Nizamuddin Ahmad, Khwajah. The ṭabaqāt-i-Akbarī. Edited by Brajendranath De and M. Hidayat Hosein. 3 vols. Calcutta: Bibliotheca Indica, 1931–35. Translated by B. De. 3 vols. Calcutta: Bibliotheca Indica, 1927–39.

Nur Qutb-i ‘Alam, Shaikh. Maktūbāt-i Shaikh Nūr Quṭb-i ‘ālam. Persian MS. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Maulana Azad Library. Subhan Allah No. 297671/18. Copy in the Indian National Archives, New Delhi. Or. MS. No. 332.

——————. Mu’nis al-fuqarā’. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. Persian MS. No. 466.

Nurul Hasan, S. “Three Studies of Zamindari System” . In Medieval India—A Miscellany, vol. 1, edited by K. A. Nizami, 233–39. Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1969.

Qeyammudin Ahmad. Corpus of Arabic and Persian Inscriptions of Bihar (A.D. 640–1200). Patna: K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, 1973.

Rajgiri, Imam al-Din. Manāhij al-shaṭṭār. Khuda Bakhsh Library, Patna. 2 vols. Persian MSS. Nos. 1848, 1848-A.

Register of Sanads. Persian MSS. Sylhet: Sylhet District Collectorate Record Room.

Sakhavi, Muhammd. al-Zau’ al-lāmi‘ li-ahl al-qarn al-tāsi‘. 12 vols. Beirut: Maktabat al-Hayat, 1966. Vols. 2 and 8.

Salim, Ghulam Hussain. Riyāzu-s-Salātīn: A History of Bengal. Translated by Abdus Salam. 1903. Reprint. Delhi: Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1975.

Salimullah, Munshi. Tarīkh-i-Bangālah. Edited by S. M. Imamuddin. Dacca: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1979.

Sarwani, ‘Abbas Khan. Tārīkh-i śēr śāhī. Translated by B. P. Ambashthya. Patna: K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, 1974.

Shams-i Siraj ‘Afif. Tārīkh-i Fīrūz Shāhī. Edited by Maulavi Vilayat Husain. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1891. Extracts in The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, translated and edited by Henry Elliot and John Dowson, 3: 269–373. 8 vols. Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1964

Shamsud-Din Ahmed, ed. and trans. Inscriptions of Bengal. Vol. 4. Rajshahi: Varendra Research Museum, 1960.

Shattari, Muhammad Ghauthi. Gulzār-i abrār. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. Persian MS. No. 259. Compiled 1613. Translated into Urdu by Fazl Ahmad Jiwari. Lahore: Islamic Book Foundation, 1975.

Shihab al-Din Talish. Fatḥiyah-i ‘ibriyah. Persian MS. Bodleian Library, Oxford. MS Bodl. Or. 589. Extracts translated by H. Blochmann in “Koch Bihar, Koch Hajo, and Assam in the 16th and 17th Centuries, According to the Akbarnamah, the Padshahnamah, and the Fathiyah i ‘Ibriyah,” Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 41, no. 1 (1872): 49–101. Extracts translated by Jadunath Sarkar in “The Conquest of Chatgaon, 1666 A.D.,” Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 3 (1907): 405–17; “Assam and the Ahoms in 1660 A.D.,” Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society 1, no. 2 (1915): 179–95; and “Shaista Khan in Bengal (1664–66),” Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, n.s., 2, no. 6 (June 1906): 257–67.

Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf. Arabic and Persian Texts of the Islamic Inscriptions of Bengal. Watertown, Mass.: South Asia Press, 1991.

Simnani, Shaikh Ashraf Jahangir. Maktūbāt-i ashrafī. Persian MS. Aligarh Muslim University History Department, Aligarh. MS. No. 27. Copy in the British Library, London. Or. MS. No. 267.

Yusuf Husain. “Haud al-hayat: La Version arabe de l’Amratkund” . Journal asiatique 113 (October-December 1928): 291–344.