Fayzī

…cerebral verses of his colleague Fayzī (died 1595), one of Akbar’s favourites. Fayzī’s brother Abū al-Faḍl ʿAllāmī (died 1602), the author of an important, though biased, historical work, deeply influenced the emperor’s religious ideas. Among 17th-century Mughal court poets, the most outstanding is Abū Ṭālib Kalīm (died 1651), who came…

…in 1574 by the poet Fayzī, Abul Fazl’s elder brother. Through his criticism of the traditional Muslim religious leaders, he influenced the development of Akbar’s religious synthesis. He opposed what he considered to be the narrow-mindedness of religious leaders and their preoccupation with outward forms of worship instead of with…