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5 The Hyderis of Khurasan derived from Qutbuddin Hyder, a disciple of
the above-mentioned Muhammad b.Yunus as-Sawaji. Ibn Battuta
considered Hyderis, Jalalis and the ‘Iraqian Ahmadiyya (Rifa‘iyya) to
be related groups.
6 Members of the Turkish fraternity Bektashiyya used to wear on their
chest similar stones, called taslīm-tash as a token of humility or
submission to the will of God.
7 According to Nizamuddin Awliya: ‘During the Mongol onslaught, the
infidels of Chinghiz Khan turned toward India. At that time Qutb uddin
counseled his friends, “Flee, for these people will overpower you!”
“What are you talking about?” they asked him. “They have brought
a dervish along with them,” he explained, “and they have kept him
hidden. That dervish is coming (here) now. In a dream I have wrestled
with that same dervish, and he threw me to the ground. The truth of
the matter is that they also will overpower you, so flee!” Having said
this, he himself retired into a cave and did not reappear. And what he
had predicted came to pass’ (Amir Hasan 1992: 101).
8 Barani believed that the bloodshed and unlawful execution of Sidi
Maula called down divine retribution on Sultan Jalaluddin Khalji. The
event was the watershed, and was followed by an unprecedented dust
storm and a severe drought and famine throughout his reign.
9 According to the anecdote, narrated in the chronicle of the seventeenthcentury
Tārīkh-i Dā’ūdī, the founder of the empire of the Great
Mughals, Babur visited Sikandar Lodi’s court with a shaven head and
in the company of qalandars. The Sultan of Delhi supposedly recited to
the guest a verse of Hafiz, to the effect that a shaven head did not make
one a qalandar. Babur countered it in verse, that a crown on one’s head
had not yet made anybody a true ruler. This legend nevertheless stands
testimony to the status held by qalandars in the beginning of the
sixteenth century.
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