https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Yahya_bin_Ahmad_SirhindiYahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi - Revision history2026-08-26T05:48:48ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yahya_bin_Ahmad_Sirhindi&diff=159222&oldid=previmported>Citation bot: Removed parameters. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | via #UCB_webform 14/2402021-02-18T17:39:04Z<p>Removed parameters. | <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:UCB" class="extiw" title="wp:UCB">Use this bot</a>. <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:DBUG" class="extiw" title="wp:DBUG">Report bugs</a>. | Suggested by Abductive | via #UCB_webform 14/240</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}<br />
'''Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi''' was a 15th century Indian chronicler who wrote ''Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi'', a [[Persian language]] chronicle of the [[Delhi Sultanate]]. Written during the reign of [[Mubarak Shah (Sayyid dynasty)|Mubarak Shah]], his work is an important source of information for the [[Sayyid dynasty]].<br />
<br />
== ''Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi'' ==<br />
<br />
Yahya expected to become a courtier of [[Mubarak Shah (Sayyid dynasty)|Mubarak Shah]] (r. 1431-1434), a ruler of the [[Delhi Sultanate]]. Therefore, he wrote ''Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi'' and presented it to the Sultan, hoping to win the royal patronage.{{sfn|Mohibbul Hasan|1968|p=174}}<br />
<br />
The book begins with the conquests of [[Muhammad of Ghor]] (1149-1206), and ends abruptly in 1434.{{sfn|Jagadish Narayan Sarkar|1977|p=33}} Several earlier royal chroniclers had written texts describing the 13th-15th century history of the Delhi Sultanate. For example, [[Minhaj-i-Siraj]] covered the period up to 1259 in his ''[[Tabaqat-i Nasiri]]'', [[Ziauddin Barani]] covered 1259-1356, and Shams-i Siraj Afif covered 1356-1388. Yahya carried forward this chronology all the way to 1434.{{sfn|Khaliq Ahmad Nizami|1981|p=70}}<br />
<br />
For the events up to 1351, Yahya selectively borrowed from the earlier writers, and arranged the material in a chronological order. For the events after 1351, he relied on personal memory and observations, besides the accounts of some trustworthy narrators. His work is a regional history, generally limited to military and political events. For example, Yahya omitted the [[revenue reforms of Alauddin Khalji|economic reforms]] of [[Alauddin Khalji]] (r. 1296-1316).{{sfn|Mohibbul Hasan|1968|p=174}}<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
=== Bibliography ===<br />
{{ref begin}}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Jagadish Narayan Sarkar |title=History of History Writing in Medieval India |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12225 |year=1977 |publisher=Ratna Prakashan |oclc=905677470 }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Khaliq Ahmad Nizami |author-link=K. A. Nizami |title=Supplement to Elliot & Dowson's History of India |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axluAAAAMAAJ |year=1981 |publisher=Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli |oclc=10825475 }}<br />
* {{cite book |author=Mohibbul Hasan |title=Historians of Medieval India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIsZ5cICPEwC |year=1968 |publisher=Meenakshi Prakashan |location=Meerut |oclc=35732 }}<br />
{{ref end}}<br />
<br />
{{Authority control}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:15th-century Indian historians]]<br />
[[Category:Delhi Sultanate]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Muslims]]<br />
[[Category:Persian-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male writers]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Delhi]]<br />
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]<br />
[[Category:Year of death uncertain]]</div>imported>Citation bot