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The geographers of this school, such as Istakhri, al-Muqaddasi and Ibn Hawqal, wrote extensively of the peoples, products, and customs of areas in the Muslim world, with little interest in the non-Muslim realms, [3] and produced world atlases, each one featuring a world map and twenty regional maps. [4]: 194
Islam in India. Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent is conventionally said to have started in 712, after the conquest of Sindh and Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate under the military command of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim. [ 1] It began in the Indian subcontinent in the course of a gradual conquest.
Bhakti movement in Hinduism refers to ideas and engagement that emerged in the medieval era on love and devotion to religious concepts built around one or more gods and goddesses. Bhakti movement preached against the caste system using the local languages so that the message reached the masses.
Andhra Muslims have different traditions and culture both from the rest of the Muslim world and the wider culture of the area they live in. Andhra Muslims speak a distinct dialect of Urdu, referred to as Dakhini, [5] however, most Andhra Muslims are fluent in Telugu as well. Most of the Andhra Muslims are Sunni, and follow the Hanafi school of ...
While the term " Hyderabadi " commonly refers to residents in and around the South Indian city of Hyderabad, regardless of ethnic origin, the term " Hyderabadi Muslims " more specifically refers to the native Urdu speaking ethnic Muslims of the erstwhile princely state. [ 6] The collective cultures and peoples of Hyderabad Deccan were termed ...
Qutb ud-Din Aibak (Persian: قطبالدین ایبک; 1150 – 14 November 1210) was a general of the Ghurid emperor Muhammad Ghori.He was in charge of the Ghurid territories in northern India, and after Muhammad Ghori's assassination in 1206, he established the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526), and started the Mamluk dynasty, which would rule the Sultanate until 1290.
Andhra Muslims is a name given to Muslims hailing from Andhra Pradesh, India. Andhra Muslims have different traditions and culture both from the rest of the Muslim world and the wider culture of the area they live in. [ 1 ]
The word Mosalman ( Persian: مسلمان, alternatively Mussalman) is a common equivalent for Muslim used in Central and South Asia. In English it was sometimes spelled Mussulman and has become archaic in usage; however, cognates of this word remain the standard term for "Muslim" in various other European languages.