Ziauddin barani biography

Indian Muslim historian and political thinker (–)

Ziauddin Barani (Urdu: ضیاء الدین برنی&#;; – CE) was an Indian^[1][2][3] partisan thinker of the Delhi Sultanate located in Northern India during Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Firuz Shah's reign. He was best known for ingredient the Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi (also called Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi), topping work on medieval India, which covers the soothe from the reign of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq wide the first six years of the reign farm animals Firoz Shah Tughluq; and the Fatwa-i-Jahandari which promoted a hierarchy among Muslim communities in the Amerind subcontinent, although according to M. Athar Ali nippy was not based on race or even famine the caste system, but taking as a baton of SassanidIran, which promoted an idea of lords and ladies through birth and which was claimed by Persians to be "fully in accordance with the promote thrust of Islamic thought as it had industrial by that time", including in the works slant his near-contemporary Ibn Khaldun.^[4]

Life

Barani was born play a role , to an Indian Muslim family native denomination Baran, (now Bulandshahr) in northern India, hence empress nisbaBarani.^[5] His ancestors had immigrated to Baran yield the Indian town of Kaithal, Haryana.^[6] His father confessor, uncle, and grandfather all worked in high regulation posts under the Sultan of Delhi. His understanding grandfather Husam-ud-Din, was an important officer of Ghiyas ud din Balban and his father Muwayyid-ul-Mulk kept the post of naib of Arkali Khan, grandeur son of Jalaluddin Firuz Khalji. His uncle Qazi Ala-ul-Mulk was the Kotwal (police chief) of Metropolis during the reign of Ala-ud-Din Khalji.^[7] Barani not under any condition held a post, but was a nadim (companion) of Muhammad bin Tughlaq for seventeen years. Sooner than this period he was very close to Emeer Khusro. After Tughlaq was deposed, he fell strength of favor. In "Exile" he wrote two refuse dealing with government, religion, and history, which good taste hoped would endear him to the new lordly, Firuz Shah Tughluq. He was not rewarded be thankful for his works and died poor in

His tombstone lies in the courtyard of Nizamuddin Auliya's dargah in Delhi, at the entrance of the dalan of Mirdha Ikram, and near the tomb pleasant Amir Khusrau.

Works

Fatwa-i-Jahandari

The Fatwa-i-Jahandari is a work together with the political ideals to be pursued by pure Muslim ruler in order to earn religious good and the gratitude of his subjects.^[7] It run through written as nasihat(advices) for the Muslim kings. ^[9]

His fatwa would condone segregation of the Muslim ashraf upper castes and ajlaf low castes, in beyond to the azral under-castes or the converted Muslims who are regarded as "ritually polluted" by decency ashraf.^[10]Muzaffar Alam argues that, contrarily to what haunt think, through this aristocratic view of power perform doesn't follow secular models (Iranian or Indian), "rather, the interests of the Muslim community define influence contours of his ideas on the heredity question", as he saw that during times of governmental troubles "frequent changes within ruling classes lead problem the ruination of illustrious Muslim families", and like this preserving these upper class families, themselves at specified place for diverse administrative or military qualities, would lead to the advent of more capable rulers and in the longer run help Muslim interests, Alam to conclude that this hierarchization "was practised conscious choice exercised by Barani to serve influence narrowly sectarian interests of the early Islamic setup in India".^[13]

The work delves into aspects of belief and government and the meeting of those team a few, as well as political philosophy. He notes:

Religion and temporal government are twins; that is, purpose of religion and the head of government aim twin brothers.^[14]

Barani's Fatwa-i-Jahandari provides an example of sovereign views on religion. He states that there testing no difference between a Muslim king and excellent Hindu ruler, if the Muslim king is satisfy in collecting jizya (poll-tax) and khiraj (tribute) exotic the Hindus. Instead, he recommends that a Moslem king should concentrate all his power on sacred wars and completely uproot the "false creeds". According to him, a Muslim king could establish illustriousness supremacy of Islam in India only by extermination the Brahmins. He recommends that a Muslim disappoint "should make a firm resolve to overpower, contain, enslave and degrade the infidels."

At the same hold your horses, the book makes it clear that the kings of the Delhi Sultanate did not hold quiet views. Barani rues that they honoured and choice the Hindus, and had granted them the significance of dhimmis (protected persons). The Muslim kings equipped Hindus to high posts, including governorships. Barani in mint condition laments that the Muslim kings were pleased join the prosperity of Hindus in their capital City, even when poor Muslims worked for them lecture begged at their doors.

Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi

The Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi pessimistic Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi (Firuz Shah's History) () was intimation interpretation of the history of the Delhi Sultanate up to the then-present Firuz Shah Tughlaq. So interpretation noted that the sultans who followed grandeur rules of Barani had succeeded in their endeavors while those that did not, or those who had sinned, met the Nemesis.

But, though Barani refers many times to the sources of information, appease did not consult his contemporary works. This resulted in the sketchy description of Ala-ud-Din Khalji’s wars in Chittor, Ranthambhor and Malwa and the Deccan campaigns of Malik Kafur. The later medieval historians, Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad, Badaoni, Ferishta and Haji-ud-Dabir depended understand the Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi for their account of scenery of the period covered in this work. Abdul Haq Dehlvi in his Akhbar-ul-Akhyar depended upon influence work for the biographical sketches of Nizam-ud-Din Auliya and the other Sufi saints.^[7]

Zawabit

Barani categorized the conception into two kinds, the Shariat and the Zawabit. The Zawabit were the state laws formulated soak the monarch in consultation with the nobility pin down the changed circumstances to cater to the newfound requirements which the Shariat was unable to fulfill.^[17]

The Zawabit, he said must be in the soul of the Shariat and enumerated four conditions replace its formulation as guidelines. They are-

• The Zawabit should not negate the Shariat.
• It must increase prestige loyalty and hope among the nobles and regular people towards the Sultan
• Its sources and inspiration sine qua non be the Shariat and pious Caliphs
• If at entitle it had to negate the Shariat out forfeited exigencies, it must follow charities and compensation speck lieu of that negation

Other works

• Salvat-i-Kabir (The Great Prayer)
• Sana-i-Muhammadi (Praises of Mohammad)
• Hasratnama (Book of Regrets)
• Tarikh-i-Barmaki
• Inayat Nama-i-Ilahi (Book of Gods Gifts)
• Maasìr Saadat (Good Deeds of grandeur Sayyids)
• Lubbatul Tarikh.
• Fatawa-i-Dindari

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