Jāyasī, Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Servan-Schreiber, Catherine
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Malik Muḥammad Jāyasī (900-49/1495-1542), who lived in North India, is the most famous Ṣūfī poet of Avadhī and Hindī literature. He lived most of his life at Jais (Jāyas), a Ṣūfī centre in Rae Bareilly district. He refers with veneration to the Chistī shaykh Sayyid Ashraf Jahāngīr Simnānī (d. c.828/1425), and the Afghan king Shīr Shāh Sūr (r. 947-52/1540-5). Illustration 1. Queen Nāgamatī talks to her parrot, an illustrated manuscript of Padmāvat , by Malik Muḥammad Jāyasī, c.1163/1750, North India. Library