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PhulBan

Muhammad Mazharuddin Ibn Nishati also known as "Ibn Nishati" was a 17th century Deccani language court poet of Golconda Sultan Abdullah Qutb Shah. His Masnavi PhulBan-"Flower garden" composed in 1656 into Dakhini Urdu from Persian masnavi Basatin of 14th Century.

PhulBan
پھولبن
AuthorMuhammad Mazharuddin Ibn Nishati
LanguageDeccani language (Urdu)
SubjectRomance and adventures
GenreRomance and adventures
Publication date
1656
Publication placeIndia
Illustrated page from ibn-e-Nishati's "Phulban" (Flower Garden), a Deccani Urdu rendition of a Persian work, Basatin. Written by "Ibn Nishati" under the patronage of Abdullah Qutb Shah, depicted here seated on a throne.

PhulBan

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The composition genre of PhulBan is a blend of romance and adventures, with 3500 lines and 2000 couplets it is a collection of anecdote leading to each other, the opening element of the book is a tale narrated by a Dervish to the king of the mythical city of gold. Further stories consist of fabled Chinese merchants, illustrious kings, fictitious princes and princesses, fairy-tales, mythical birds and mendicant Dervish's and Yogis.

As claimed by the author Ibn Nishati, the composition is a Dakhini Urdu translation of Persian language work Basatin-(Gardens) by Ahmad Zubairi written in the reign of the 14th century Delhi sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq.

According to Sunil Sharma-(Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at Boston University)-an article published by British Library on 22 December 2017; "This Persian Basatin has generally been considered as a reference to a lost work, but it is most likely the 15th-century Indo-Persian prose romance, Basatin al-uns (Garden of companionship) written by Muhammad ibn Sadr Taj ‘Abdusi Akhsitan Dihlavi, a work that had a moderate degree of readership in the early modern period."

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