The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.139
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.139
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Akbar’s own fantastic sect now lost one of its leading adherents, for on 13 October Shaikh Faizī died of a complication of diseases. The bigoted Badāūnī, who was deeply indebted to him and had never permitted his orthodoxy to debar him from profiting by his aid, extols him for his learning, justly enough criticises his poetry and finds no language too strong for the condemnation of his heterodoxy.