Re: Mullah bashing and sub-continent’s fiction
No doubt, he is not that famous and his existence is also doubtful.
No contemporary record mentions about Mullah Do-Piyaza. A number of pamphlets on his life and jokes were published in the late 19th century, which were rejected as forgeries by a modern scholar Hafiz Mahmood Shirani in an article published by him in 1939. In this article, Shirani claimed that Mulla Do-Piyaza was a historical personality whose original name was Abdul Momin. He was born in India but left for Iran in 1582. He returned to India after 36 years and died in 1620. His tomb is located in Handia. He claimed that the major sources of his information were two long pieces written by certain Ashlaghi, son and student of Mullah in an early 19th-century manuscript in Persian, which was in his possession. But his claim was refuted by other modern scholars, who consider Mullah Do-Piyaza as a fictional character.[SUP][1]](Mulla Do-Piyaza - Wikipedia)