16th-century Sufi poem from India
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"Madhumalati" or 'night flowering jasmine'[1] is an Indian Sufi love poem, written in 1545 by Mir Sayyid Manjhan ShattariRajgiri.[2] The poem is written in Awadhi dialect.[1]
Lovers shoot at a tiger in the jungle. Illustration to the mystical Sufi text Madhumalati.
See also
"Gulshan-i 'Ishq", a 1657 Sufi poem by Nusrati based on Madhumalati
