Mir Ali Sir Thattvi

Mir Ali Sir Tattavi, Qani (b.1728-d.1788) was a Sindhi Muslim historian born after the rule of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. It has been said that he composed his first verses of poetry while still a boy, he studied the Fatawa-e-Alamgiri and later began to write essays independently. Thereafter began a career as a scholar, poet and historian. He went on to produce a great number of works under the pen-name Qani, on a variety of topics, including: the works of Al-Ghazali, Rumi. His most prominent work was the Gift of the Generous (Tuhfah al-kiram) was his most famous work it dealt with a compendium of the lives of Sufis from the times of Muhammad until the late 12th/18th century, an account of the martyrs of Karbala, and a work of general history.^{[1] [2]}

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1. ^ http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D90001011%26ct%3D86
2. ^ http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D90001011%26ct%3D86