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- Treatises or manuals dealing with Sufi thought and practices –Ex. Kashf-ul-Mahjub of Al Hujwiri. It enables historians to see how traditions outside sub-continent influenced Sufi thought in India.
- Malfuzat (Conversations or sayings of Sufi saints):Malfuzats were compiled by different Sufi Silsilas, with the permission of Shaikhs. Fawadul Fawaid is the compilation of sayings of Nizammuddin Auliya.
- Maktubat (Collections of letters): Letters written by Sufi masters, addressed to their disciples and associates – while these tell us about the Shaikh’s experience of religious truth that he wanted to share with others, they also reflect the life conditions of the recipients and are responses to their aspirations and difficulties, both spiritual and mundane.
- Tazkiras (Biographical accounts of the saints): Most famous Tazkira is the Akhbar-ul-Akhyar of Abdul Haqq Muhaddis Dehlavi. Authors of Tazkiras often sought to establish precedence of their own orders and glorify their spiritual genealogies.
