Malik Muhammad Jayasi

As the nisba "Jayasi" suggests, he was associated with Jayas, an important Sufi centre of medieval India, in present-day Uttar Pradesh.

He lived a simple life until he mocked the opium addiction of a pir (Sufi leader) in a work called Posti-nama.

[1] He belong to the Mehdavia Sect of Islam Jayasi's own writings identify two lineages of Sufi pirs who inspired or taught him.

[5] Some legends state that Raja Ramsingh of Amethi invited Jayasi to his court, after he heard a mendicant reciting verses from the Padmavat.

Ghulam Muinuddin Abdullah Khweshgi, in his Maarijul-Wilayat (1682–83), called him muhaqqiq-i hindi ("knower of the truth of al-Hind").

[1] Jayasi's most famous work is Padmavat (1540),[7] a poem describing the story of the historic siege of Chittor by Alauddin Khalji in 1303.

"Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply..."; an illustrated manuscript of Padmavat , c. 1750