Tarikh-i-Mashaikh-i-Chisht is a comprehensive and insightful study of the most popular and influential Sufi order of South Asia. The author has depicted the Chishti order from an historical viewpoint. He has delineated and defined the thoughts prevailing in each century and has related them to the problems besetting the particular period portrayed, right from Nizamuddin Aulia in the Tughlaq period to Maulvi Fareed Ahmad under the British. This book is a unique historical record doing justice to both the original spiritual impulse and the social effects of the Sufistic orders.