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Sindhi literature
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Sindhi literature, body of writings in the Sindhi language, an Indo-Aryan language used primarily in Pakistan and India. The beginning of Sindhi literature can be traced back to the 11th century in the stray verses of an Ismāʿīlī missionary. But it was the poetic works of Qadi Qadan (1463?–1551), Shah Abdul Karim (1536–1623), and Shah Inat Rizvi (late 17th century), three Sufi mystics, which gave Sindhi literature its distinctive character. The most-important feature of Sindhi literature is the coexistence of Vedantic thought and Islamic mysticism. The body of religious poetry that grew in Sindhi from the 15th to the 18th ...(100 of 596 words)