History of the Khaljis, A.D. 1290–1320 c26.s3.6

c26.s3.6

More important than Badaoni is Muhammad Qasim Ferishtah, whose work *Gulshan-i-Ibrahimi*, popularly known as *Tarikh-i-Ferishtah* was completed in 1612. It contains a detailed account of the Khaljis and of the lives of saints contemporaneous to them. As the book was written in the Deccan Ferishtah possessed sources from which he gives a more detailed account of the Deccan campaigns of 'Alauddin than Barani or even 'Isami. Ferishtah gives a detailed list of the wealth captured by 'Alauddin in his various Deccan campaigns and especially in the raid of Devagiri in 1296, but his data are open to doubts since they are not corroborated by any other historian. He cites no less than thirty-five works he utilized in the preparation of his book, but even then his chronology is not free from faults. Moreover, he does not make definite statements on controversial points. The Lucknow text has been utilized.