Aligarh: Prof Gulfishan Khan, Chairperson and, Coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University presented a paper “Life of Ṣūfī-Mashāʾikh in Hazrat-i-Dehli/Shahjahanabad: Views from the Indo-Persian and Urdu Texts” at an international seminar on “Sufis, Poets, and Saints”, organized by the Heritage Association of the History Department, in collaboration with the Research Centre, JDMC Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi.
She highlighted the multifaceted socio-cultural contribution of the Indo-Muslim Sufi saints. She said that during the medieval period, Delhi, which was called Hazrat-i-Dehli (the Exalted Capital), had been a premier center of spiritual activities of generations of the saints of various orders called tariqas.
“Many tombs, mosques, hospices, dargahs, and colleges called madrasahs, which dotted the landscape of the heritage city were also constructed and patronized by the Sufi saints who lived, preached, and are lying buried there. The two foremost hospices of Chishti Sufis that of Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki, and the dargah of Shaykh Nizamuddin Awliya, were the source of urbanization and social change”, she added.
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