Mullah Nadiri


Mullah Nadri or Mulla Nadiri was a Persian-language poet in Kashmir during the reign of Sultan Sikandar and then at the court of Zain-ul-Abidin.
He wrote several lost books, including a lost Tarikh-i-Kashmir,. The Persian accounts of Mulla Nadiri, as with those of Mulla Ahmad Kashmiri, Qazi Ibrahim and Hasan Qari, together with the Sanskrit chronicles of Jonaraja and his pupil Srivara, served as sources for 17th Century histories - the Tarikh-i-Kashmir of Hasan b. Ali Kashmiri, the Baharistan-i-Shahi, and the Tarikh-i-Kashmir of Haidar Malik.