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It also contains a reference to the famous buildings· of Dehli, The next important work called Miftahu'l Futuh and written in 1291 deals with the military campaigns of Jalalu'd din Khalji, the suppression of the rebellion of Malik Chhajju, the sultan's advance upon Ranthanbhor · ( I291), the frustrated Mongol invasion of 1292 and the conquest of Jhain.
In the case of Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughluq , who was neither sentimental nor a slave to the dogmatic 'ulama', Barani fought shy of the above principles and avoided writing a full history of his reign in a regular chronological order.
An important contemporary of Diyau'd din Barani was the Sufi 1poet Khwaja 'Abdul Malik "Isami, commonly known by his penname 'Lsami, who wrote a versified history entitled Futuhu's Salatin, which deals with events from the rise of the Ghaznavi dynasty to the foundation of the Bahmani dynasty.
For instance, the plot which Sultan Muhammad, then known as Jauna Khan, is said to have formed with Ahmad ibn Aiyaz to murder his royal father Ghiyathu'd din Tughluq, finds no confir• mation in the Futuhu's Salatin.
· The next great historical work, the Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi of Shams Siraj 'Afif, so called because it deals exclusively with Firoz Shah's reign, was written in Dehli some years after the invasion of Timur.
The Tarikh-i Mubarak Shahi of Yahya ibn Ahmad of Sirhind written during the reign of Mubarak Shah (1421-34), second king of the Sayyid dy• nasty, is the only available history for a period-of forty-six-years-from ·T388·-· to 1434.