Madhumalati

For the flowering plant, see Combretum indicum. For the 1966 film, see Madhu Malathi. For the 1978 film, see Madhu Malti. For other uses, see Malathi (disambiguation).

"Madhumalati" or 'night flowering jasmine'^[1] is an Indian Sufi love poem, written in 1545 by Mir Sayyid Manjhan Shattari Rajgiri.^[2] The poem is written in Awadhi dialect.^[1]

Lovers shoot at a tiger in the jungle. Illustration to the mystical Sufi text Madhumalati.

See also

• "Gulshan-i 'Ishq", a 1657 Sufi poem by Nusrati based on Madhumalati