Books and Authors in Medieval India
In medieval India, many books were written by different authors based on the cultural, social, and political systems. These books are very important to know about that era.
List of Important Books and Authors in Medieval India:
| Name of Books | Author |
| Taj-ul-Massir
(History of Delhi Sultanate. The book is written in the Persian language) |
Hasan Nizami |
| Tabaqt-i-Nasiri
(The book is written for Sultan Nasir-ud-din in the Persian language) |
Minhaj-i- Siraj |
| Tarikh-i-Firoz shahi and Fatwah-i-Jahandari | Ziauddin Barani (1285-1358, Political thinker during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Firoz Shah) |
| Futuh-us-Salatin | Abdul Malik Isami (A poet of the Persian language) |
| Tarikh-i-Mubarakshahi | Ahmed Sarhindi |
| Badshahnam (Padshahnama) | Abdul Hamid Lahori |
| Mirat-i-Ahmadi | Ali Muhammad khan |
| Padmavat | Malik Mohammad Jayasi |
| Khaza-in-ul-Futuh (Alauddin Khilji’s works) | Amir Khushro |
| Raqqat-e-Alamgiri | Aurangzeb |
| Baburnama or Tuzuk-e-Babri | Babur |
| HarshaCharita | Banabhatta |
| Rehla | Ibn Battuta |
| Shahnama | Ferdowsi (A Persian poet) |
| Kitab-ul-Hind | Al-Biruni |
| Prithviraj Raso | Chand Bardai |
| Kitab-i-Nauras | Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II ( Bijapur) |
| Ramchaadrika, Rasikpriya | Kehsavdas |
| Ras Gangadhar | Jagannath Pandit |
| Tawarikh Chahar Guljor | Haricharan Das |
| Qanun-i-Humayun or Humayun Nama | Gulbadan Begum |
| Tarikh-i-Rashidi | Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlt |
| Tazkirat – ul- Waqiat | Johar Aftwachi |
| Mirat ul me malik | Ottoman Admiral Seydi Ali Reis (Turkish) |
| Agrarian System of Mughal India (1556-1707) | Irfan Habib |
| Tabaqat-i-Akbari or Takikh-i-Nizami | Nizamuddin Ahmed |
| Tarikh-e-Akabar | Arif Kandhari |
| Muntakhab –ul- Tawarikh | Abdul Qadir badayuni |
| Tarikh -i-Alfi | Mulla Ghatwi, Naqib Khan, Badayuni, Hazi Ibrahim Sarhindi, etc wrote together. |
| Akhtarul Akhyar | Abdul hq Dehalvi |
| Tamkiyat-e-Akbarnama | Inayatullah |
| Jubt-ut-tawarikh | Sheikh Nurullahq |
| Tarikh-i-sindh | Mir Muhammad Masoom |
| Akabarnama, Kashkol | Abul Fazal allami |
| Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri (An autobiography in the Persian language) | Jahangir |
| Iqbalnama-e-Jahangiri | Motamid KHan |
| Gulshan-i-Ibrahimi or Tarikh-i- Firishta | Muhammad Qasim |
| Waqiat-i-Jahangiri | Muhammad Hadi |
| Muasir-i-Jahangiri | Kamgar Khan |
| Intakhab-i-Jahangiri | Sheikh Abdul wahab |
| Dabistan-i-Mzahib | Muhsin Fani |
| Zafarnama-i-Alamgiri | Aqil Khan Raji |
| Masire Rahimi | Abdul baqi nihabandi |
| Amal-e-Saleh | Mohammad Saleh Kambo |
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