1325 Deaths - Yury of Moscow, Nizamuddin Auliya, Amir Khusrow, Charles of Valois, Thomas de Dundee, Denis of Portugal, Al-Hilli, Alice de Toeni (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Yury of Moscow, Nizamuddin Auliya, Amir Khusrow, Charles of Valois, Thomas de Dundee, Denis of Portugal, Al-Hilli, Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick, John Salmon, Ghiyath Al-Din Tughluq, Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, Keizan, Stephen Vladislav Ii of Syrmia, Varodaya Cinkaiariyan, Owain Ap Dafydd, Ismail I, Sultan of Granada, John Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, Regnaud de La Porte, Robert Fitzwalter, 1st Baron Fitzwalter, Saint Nikodim I, Pierre le Tessier, Ichij Uchitsune. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Sultan-ul-Mashaikh, Mehboob-e-Ilahi, Hazrat Shaikh Khwaja Syed Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 - 3 April 1325) (Urdu: ), also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, was a famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in South Asia, an order that believed in drawing close to God through renunciation of the world and service to humanity. He is one of the great saints of the Chishti order in India. His predecessors were Moinuddin Chishti, Bakhtiyar Kaki and Fariduddin Ganjshakar. In that sequence, they constitute the initial spiritual chain or silsila of the Chisti order, which is widely prevalent in India and Pakistan. Nizamuddin Auliya like his predecessors stressed upon the element of love as a means of realisation of God. For him his love of God implied a love of humanity. His vision of the world was marked by a highly evolved sense of secularity and kindness. It is claimed by the 14th century historiographer Ziauddin Barani that his influence on the Muslims of Delhi was such that a paradigm shift was effected in their outlook towards worldly matters. People began to be inclined towards mysticism and prayers and remaining aloof from the world. Nizamuddin Auliya was born in 1238, in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh (East of Delhi), though at age five, after t...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=517436