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Concerning Madhumālatī and its author, Manjhan

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Concerning the genre of the Sufi Romance in Hindi

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— — Mgāvatī, ed. Mātāprasād Gupta (Agra: Pramaāik Prakāśan, 1968).

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Concerning Sufism and the Shaārī Order

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Izutsu, Toshihiko. Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of the Key Philosophical Concepts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).

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Concerning the history of the period

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Dictionaries and reference works

Apte, V. S., The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary (Kyoto: Rinsen Book Company, 1986).

Crooke, William, A Rural and Agricultural Glossary for the North West Provinces and Oudh (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, and Co., 1888).

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Shyamsundardas et al., Hindī Shabdsāgar, vols. 1 -11 (Benares: Nagari Pracharini Sabha, 1965–75).

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Further reading in Oxford World’s Classics

Niami of Ganja, Haft Paykar, ed. and trs. Julie Scott Meisami. The Pañcatantra, ed. and trs. Patrick Olivelle.