Marshall Hodgson, one of the foremost scholars of Islamic Studies, decried the “Arabistic…bias” that plagued the field. The venerable Encyclopaedia of Islam acknowledged this failing, and its third edition promised a broader treatment. However, as this study demonstrates, there is yet much work to do. The article examines Khwājah Sindhi, a significant Brāhmī-derived script used to record Muslim and other religious literature in a variety of languages, both South Asian as well as Middle Eastern. Besides South Asian Ismaili literature, the manuscripts preserve verses of the most illustrious mystic poets of Sindh, Shāh ʿAbd al-Laṭīf and Sachal Sarmast; passages from the works of renowned bhaktī and sant poets such as Kabīr, Mīrābāī, Nānak, Ravīdās, and Narsiṃh Mahetā; selections from the Spiritual Couplets (Mathnawī-yi maʿnawī) of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī in both the Persian original and in Sindhi translation; and ghazals composed by Amīr Khusraw and Shaykh Saʿdī. The article focuses on three primary problems: how the original name of the script was displaced by an Orientalist neologism, evidence for the existence of Khwājah Sindhi manuscripts of significant antiquity, and how a tradition was invented in modern times regarding the script’s origins.