Haqaiq-e-Hindi is a treatise written in 1566 by Meer Syed Abdul Wahid Bilgrami (1509-1608). It was written in Persian with the use of Sufi interpretations used in Dhrupad, Bishnupad and others.[1][2][3][4][5]

Haqaiq-e-Hindi
AuthorSyed Abdul Wahid Bilgrami
Original titleحقائق ہندی
LanguagePersian
SubjectSufi interpretations in Dhrupad, Bishnupad, and others
GenreSufism
Published1566
Publication placeIndia

It was taken into Scholarly field by Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi, who published it in Hindi in 1957.[6]

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According to Muzaffar Alam, in this work ‘Abdul Wahid ‘sought to reconcile Vaisnav symbols as well as the terms and ideas used in Hindu devotional songs with orthodox Muslim beliefs’ within the ‘syncretistic religious milieu’ of Awadh qasbas.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ Orsini, Francesca (2010). "Krishna is the Truth of Man" Mir 'Abdul Wahid Bilgrami's Haqā'iq-i Hindī (Indian Truths) and the circulation of dhrupad and bishnupad.'. Brill.
  2. ^ Orsini, Francesca; Schofield, Katherine Butler (2015-10-05). Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (in Arabic). Open Book Publishers. pp. 419–420. ISBN 978-1-78374-102-1.
  3. ^ Mohamed, Malik (2023-12-01). The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-003-83095-5.
  4. ^ Bhargava, Meena; Nath, Pratyay (2023-01-05). The Early Modern in South Asia: Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History. Cambridge University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-009-27662-7.
  5. ^ Jafri, Saiyid Zaheer Husain (2012). Recording the Progress of Indian History: Symposia Papers of the Indian History Congress, 1992-2010. Primus Books. p. 142. ISBN 978-93-80607-28-3.
  6. ^ Pauwels, Heidi (1992). "A Sufi listening to Hindi religious poetry: Mir Abdul Wahid Bilgrami's Haqayaq-i Hindi". Asian Languages and Literature Faculty Papers.