PhulBan

Muhammad Mazharuddin Ibn Nishati also known as "Ibn Nishati" was a 17th century Deccani language court poet of Golconda Sultan Abdullah Qutb Shah.

The composition genre of PhulBan is a blend of romance and adventures, with 3500 lines and 2000 couplets it is a collection of anecdote leading to each other, the opening element of the book is a tale narrated by a Dervish to the king of the mythical city of gold.

Further stories consist of fabled Chinese merchants, illustrious kings, fictitious princes and princesses, fairy-tales, mythical birds and mendicant Dervish's and Yogis.

As claimed by the author Ibn Nishati, the composition is a Dakhini Urdu translation of Persian language work Basatin-(Gardens) by Ahmad Zubairi written in the reign of the 14th century Delhi sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq.

According to Sunil Sharma-(Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at Boston University)-an article published by British Library on 22 December 2017; "This Persian Basatin has generally been considered as a reference to a lost work, but it is most likely the 15th-century Indo-Persian prose romance, Basatin al-uns (Garden of companionship) written by Muhammad ibn Sadr Taj ‘Abdusi Akhsitan Dihlavi, a work that had a moderate degree of readership in the early modern period."

Illustrated page from ibn-e-Nishati's "Phulban" (Flower Garden), a Deccani Urdu rendition of a Persian work, Basatin . Written by "Ibn Nishati" under the patronage of Abdullah Qutb Shah , depicted here seated on a throne.