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Kashmir`s Transition to Islam: The Role of Muslim Rishis (Fifteenth To Eighteenth Century)
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Manohar
| Author:
Mohammad Ishaq Khan
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Manohar
Author:
Mohammad Ishaq Khan
Language:
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The book breaks fresh ground in historical research. Based on acritical and empathic understanding of Sanskrit, Arabic, Persianand Kashmiri sources, it provides a critique of Orientalistscholarship against the background of an historical enquiryconducted into the processes of Islamisation and its dynamics inrelation to the role of Muslim Rishis (Kashmiri Sufis). ProfessorIshaq Khan has brought together a number of perspectives — thehistorical, the sociological, and the religious. The crux of hisargument is that Islam is not merely a matter of theologicalpropositions, but also a historical realisation: realising theOneness of Allah by total surrender, dedication, service and aboveall self-sacrifice for the good of humankind. The Rishi movement isan integral component of
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The book breaks fresh ground in historical research. Based on acritical and empathic understanding of Sanskrit, Arabic, Persianand Kashmiri sources, it provides a critique of Orientalistscholarship against the background of an historical enquiryconducted into the processes of Islamisation and its dynamics inrelation to the role of Muslim Rishis (Kashmiri Sufis). ProfessorIshaq Khan has brought together a number of perspectives — thehistorical, the sociological, and the religious. The crux of hisargument is that Islam is not merely a matter of theologicalpropositions, but also a historical realisation: realising theOneness of Allah by total surrender, dedication, service and aboveall self-sacrifice for the good of humankind. The Rishi movement isan integral component of
About Author
Mohammad Ishaq Khan is Professor of History at the University of Kashmir. Formerly the Leverhulme Senior Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences and Dean Academics at Kashmir University, he is presently working on a Biographical Dictionary of Sufism in South Asia. He is the author of History of Srinagar, 1846-1947: A Study in Socio-Cultural Change; Perspectives on Kashmir: Historical Dimensions; Experiencing Islam and numerous research articles published in learned journals of international repute.
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