Majma’-Ul-Bahrain or the Mingling of the Two Oceans By Prince Muhammad Dara Shikuh

Moreover as he remarks on p. 12 the dates of the birth and death of many mystics were wanting in the standard biographies of the to wit the Nafaitat-ul-Unti Tilrikh-i-Pifiii and Tabalplit-i-Sulkini. [...] So he contrived to compose this work with the distinct object of supplying within a very short compass the details regarding the dates of birth and death the place of burial and other important particulars of the saints of Islam. [...] The extent as well as the conciseness of the work is apparent from the fact that in smile 200 pages 1 Mira has noticed the lives of about 411 saints and divines including the Prophet his wives the Orthodox Caliphs and the Imams. [...] was written after he had reached the uompanionship of such a divine and had learnt from him " the paths of Mdiik and the Maki-infra (or the stages of the (p. [...] becomes clear and solved with the help of this ancient work which is undoubtedly the first heavenly Book and the fountain-head of the ocean of monotheism and in accordance with or rather an elucidation of the gueifm.