Indian Muslim historian and political thinker (1285–1357)
Ziauddin Barani (Urdu: ضیاء الدین برنی; 1285–1358 CE) was an Indian Muslim[1][2][3] political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate located in present-day Northern India during Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Firuz Shah's reign. He was best known for composing the Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi (also called Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi), a work on medieval India, which covers the period from the reign of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq to the first six years of the reign of Firoz Shah Tughluq; and the Fatwa-i-Jahandari which promoted a hierarchy among Muslim communities in the Indian subcontinent, although according to M. Athar Ali it was not based on race or even like the caste system, but taking as a model of Sassanid Iran, which promoted an idea of aristocracy through birth and which was claimed by Persians to be "fully in accordance with the main thrust of Islamic thought as it had developed by that time", including in the works of his near-contemporary Ibn Khaldun.[4]
^Arbind Das · (1996). Arthashastra of Kautilya and Fatawa-i-Jahandari of Ziauddin Barani. p. 144. Barani never called himself Turk for one intention that he wanted to be an Indian than anything else
^Mohammad Habib (1950). Medieval India Quarterly: Volumes 1-5. p. 244. His ignorance of the geography of Central Asia and Persia is surprising...in his modes of thought and feeling he is hundred per cent Indian
^Kassam, Zayn R.; Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg; Bagli, Jehan (16 July 2018). Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Springer Netherlands. p. 114. ISBN 978-94-024-1266-6. Żiyāʾ al-Dīn Baranī (ca. 1285–1357) ... was a native of Baran, a town just east of Delhi, known today as Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, India.
^M. Athat Ali, "Elements of Social Justice in Medieval Islamic Thought" in Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Recording the Progress of Indian History: Symposia Papers of the Indian History Congress, 1992–2010, Primus Books, 2012, p. 197.
ZiauddinBarani (Urdu: ضیاء الدین برنی; 1285–1358 CE) was an Indian Muslim political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate located in present-day Northern India...
learned men visited him. — Tarikh i Firoze Shahi by ZiauddinBarani Historian K. S. Lal disagrees with Barani, mentioning that Alauddin had great faith in his...
Mongol amirs of Delhi conspired to kill him. According to chronicler ZiauddinBarani, 20,000 or 30,000 Mongols were killed as a result of this order. The...
Alauddin's reforms is ZiauddinBarani, a Delhi Sultanate chronicler who wrote around half-a-century after Alauddin's death. Barani provides a numbered list...
needles; from vegetables, soups, sweetmeats to chapatis" (according to ZiauddinBarani [c. 1357]). The price controls were inflexible even during droughts...
pluralism and kindness. It is claimed by the 14th century historiographer ZiauddinBarani that his influence on the Muslims of Delhi was such that a paradigm...
who could challenge Alauddin's authority. According to chronicler ZiauddinBarani, he also asked his advisers for reforms to subjugate the Hindus whose...
near-contemporary chronicler ZiauddinBarani, made both Alauddin and Ulugh Khan jealous of Zafar Khan's newly acquired fame. Barani also claims that the two...
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dynasty, but raised the taxes on Hindus, wrote his court historian ZiauddinBarani, so that they might not be blinded by wealth or afford to become rebellious...
physician and Sufi living in India ZiauddinBarani (1285 - 1357), Indian historian and political philosopher Ziauddin Ahmad (1878 – 1947), scholar and politician...
Delhi forces recaptured it in 698 AH. The 14th century chronicler ZiauddinBarani states that the invasion was led by Saldi (or Soldi) and his brother...
to the Doab, in case of Alauddin's defeat. The 14th century writer ZiauddinBarani gives the strength of the Mongol army as 100,000 at one place in his...
compromise which they had to make in a predominantly Hindu environment." ZiauddinBarani, an ethnic Indian 14th-century political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate...
just like when he attacked other parts of Mewar region. According to ZiauddinBarani, in 1297 CE, a Kotwal officer of Alauddin had told him that he would...
account is a later-day fabrication: according to the earlier chronicler ZiauddinBarani, the paiks took the initiative to kill Kafur on their own. After Kafur's...
his esteem. Regarding the time when Alauddin was ill, the chronicler ZiauddinBarani (1285–1357) states: In those four or five years when the Sultan was...
account is also corroborated by the 14th century Muslim chroniclers ZiauddinBarani and Isami. Historian Banarsi Prasad Saksena believes that Khusrau's...
there was a great demand of slave labour. The Muslim court historian ZiauddinBarani recorded that Qazi Mughisuddin of Bayanah advised Alā' al-Dīn that...
the banks of the Narmada River on his way back to Delhi. Chronicler ZiauddinBarani writes that Khusrau Khan resented "the way the Sultan forced himself...
the 16th century, Habib believes that the royal court chroniclers ZiauddinBarani and Shaikh Nasiruddin documented them operating in the Delhi Sultanate...
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