The article dwells on the prosaic literary production entitled as “Goodness of the Heart” by Hasan Dehlavi and its place in Indian literature written into Persian. which is a collection of sayings of the poet’s spiritual mentor, leader of the Chishtiya order - Nizomuddin. It is underscored that the compilation of malfuzot - records of sayings or compilation of a kind of logia of mentors or outstanding representatives of the Chishtiya order being a literary tradition of the relevant Sufi movement. The author of the article conducted the analysis beset with the structural peculiarities and composition of the parts of “Favoid al-fuod” as an example of Sufi prose. In her article the author carries out a comparative study on a number of malfuzot written by representatives of the Chishtiya order, including “Anis-al-arvokh” by Hasan Sijzi, “Favoid-al-solikin” by Fariduddin Ganjshakar, etc. The relationship between the following formative notions, such as “malfuzot”: “debocha” (“introduction”) "jild" ("volume"), "majlis" ("assembly"). was determined.
Indian literature written into Persian, “Favoid al-fuod” (“Goodness of the Heart”) by Hasan Dehlavi, Sufi prose, malfuzot (logies), Nizomuddin Avlia, Chishtiya order
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