Ebook: Pan-Islamic connections : transnational networks between South Asia and the Gulf
Author: Jaffrelot Christophe, Louër Laurence
- Tags: Muslims -- South Asia, South Asia -- Relations -- Persian Gulf Region, Persian Gulf Region -- Relations -- South Asia
- Series: Comparative politics and international studies series.
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Persian Gulf Region--South Asia., South Asia--Persian Gulf Region.
- Language: English
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South Asia is the region inhabited by the largest number of Muslims. In the course of the Islamization process, which began in the 8th century, it developed a distinct Indo-Islamic civilization that culminated in the Mughal Empire. While paying lip service to the power centres of Islam in the Gulf, including Mecca & Medina, this civilization has cultivated its own variety of Islam, based on Sufism. Over the last 50 Read more...