Kashmir’s Transition to Islam: The Role of Muslim Rishis

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The book breaks fresh ground in historical research Based on a critical and empathic understanding of Sanskrit Arabic Persian and Kashmiri sources it provides a critique of Orientalist scholarship against the background of an historical enquiry conducted into the processes of Islamization and its dynamics in relation to the role of Muslim Rishis Kashmir Sufis. Professor Isaq Khan has brought together a number of perspectives the historical the socioogical and the religious.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohammed Ishaq Khan

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.