Iltutmish biography of mahatma gandhi
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Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
Sufi scholar and saint (1173–1235)
Quṭb al-Aqṭāb Khwāja Sayyid Muḥammad Bakhtiyār al-Ḥusaynī, Quṭb al-Dīn Bakhtiyār Kākī (born 1173 – died 1235) was a Sunni Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and scholar of the Chishti Order from Delhi, India. He was the disciple and the spiritual successor of Mu'in al-Din Chishti as head of the Chishti order. Before him the Chishti order in India was confined to Ajmer and Nagaur. He played a major role in establishing the order securely in Delhi.[1] His Dargah is located adjacent to Zafar Mahal in Mehrauli, and is also the venue of his annual Urs festivities. The Urs was held in high regard by many rulers of Delhi like Iltutmish who built a nearby stepwell, Gandhak ki Baoli for him, Sher Shah Suri who built a grand gateway, Bahadur Shah I who built the Moti Masjid mosque nearby and Farrukhsiyar who added a marble screen and a mosque.[2]
His most famous disciple and spiritual successor was Faridudd
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Archive / Papers / Spear Papers: Box 29
Description
Bequeathed by Dr (Thomas George) Percival Spear. Lecturer, St Stephen’s College, Delhi 1924-40; various posts in Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India 1940-45; Bursar, Selwyn College, Cambridge 1945-70; Lecturer in History, Cambridge University 1963-69.
The contents of this box were previously listed as Box 30.
- File containing Spear’s application for the post of Reader in Indian History at SOAS, 1963, including his CV to date.
- Modern Asian Studies, vol.1, part 1, January 1967 which includes his article ‘Nehru’.
- Modern Asian Studies, vol.3, part 4, October 1969 which includes his article ‘Mahatma Gandhi’.
- Article ‘Who were the Chihilgani, the Forty Slaves of Sultan Shams Al-Din Iltutmish of Delhi’ by Gavin Hambly.
- Article ‘A Note on Sultaniyeh/Sultanabad in the Early 19th Century’ by Gavin Hambly.
- Reprint of ‘Britain’s Trans
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