Abdul Malik Isami

Abdul Malik Isami (1311–?) was a 14th-century Indian historian and court poet. He wrote in Persian language, under the patronage of Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah, the founder of the Bahmani Sultanate. He is best known for Futuh-us-Salatin (c. 1350), a poetic history of the Muslim conquest of India.

Quotes

 * When he had finished killing unbelievers, no rival to him remained in Hindustan.
 * Isami, Futuh al-Salfain, as quoted in    Peter Hardy - Historians of medieval India_ studies in Indo-Muslim historical writing. (1960) p 108


 * Malik Naib [Kafur] reached there expeditiously and occupied the fort... He built mosques in places occupied by temples.
 * Devagiri (Maharashtra) . Futuhus-Salatin by Isami, Translated from the Hindi version by S.A.A. Rizvi included in Khalji Kalina Bharata, Aligarh, 1955, p. 206. In: Sita Ram Goel: Hindu - Temples - What Happened to them