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The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli by Ishtiaq Husain Qureshi is a comprehensive work on this most important period of Indian history. It covers the period between A.D. 1206, when Qutb-ud-din Aibak ascended the throne, and A.D. 1555, when the last of the Surs, Sikandar Shah, was overthrown and Humayun, the Mughal emperor, re-established himself at Delhi. Unlike the other works on the subject, the Surs have been included under the purview of the work ...
Murray T. Titus' Indian Islam depicts the history of Islam in India from the time of the conquest of Sind by the Arabs under Muhammad bin Qasim. The manner in which Islam spread, the results of its contact with Hinduism and its reaction to modern Western ideas are exhaustively discussed. The various sects Sunnis, Shias, Ismailis, Qarmatians, Bohras, Khojahs and Roshaniyahs along with popular religious orders, the Chisti, Suhrawardi, Shattari, Qadri, Naqshbandi ...
The Adhyatma Ramayana forms part of the Brahmanda Purana. Here the story of Rama is narrated, by God Mahadeva to his consort Parvati, in the form of a dialogue so that its message could be propagated as effectively as that of the Bhagavad Gita. The passage of many centuries has not succeeded in abating either the freshness of its appeal or the veneration in which it is held. It is this which provided the impetus to Tulsidas for his Ramacharitamanas. Valmiki's ...