Mullah Nadiri

Mullah Nadri or Mulla Nasiri ( fl. 1420 CE) was a Persian-language poet in Kashmir during the reign of Sultan Sikandar (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'', (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 (1616 CE), the Baharistan-i-Shahi, and the ''Tarikh-i-Kashmir'' of Haidar Malik (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."

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15th-century Iranian historians
15th-century Persian-language writers
People from Srinagar
History of Kashmir
Historians of India