Twilight of the Sultanate c3.19

c3.19

Yahyā is a conscientious and precise narrator of events.¹² Unlike other Persian historians, his style is exceedingly simple. His work abounds in dates. His chronology is correct. Although he wrote for a patron-king,¹³ he is no panegyrist. All later writers have been directly or indirectly indebted to him. The whole account of the Saiyyad period in Nizāmuddīn Ahmad's *Tabqāt-i-Akbarī* is a mere reproduction of the statements of *Tārīkh-i-Mubārak Shāhī*, very often copied verbatim. Badaonī follows it very closely. Ferishta often borrows its very words.