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Although the Muslim League had previously fared poorly in the 1937 elections in Sindh, when local Sindhi Muslim parties won more seats, [120] the Muslim League's cultivation of support from local pirs in 1946 helped it gain a foothold in the province, [121] it didn't take long for the overwhelming majority of Sindhi Muslims to campaign for the ...
Raja Dahir of Sindh had refused to return Arab rebels from Sindh [6] [7] and Meds and others. [8] Med pirates shipping from their bases at Kutch, Debal and Kathiawar [8] during one of their raids had kidnapped Muslim women traveling from Sri Lanka to Arabia, thus providing a casus belli [8] [9] against Sindhi King Dahir. [10]
As one of the only written sources about the Arab conquest of Sindh, and therefore the origins of Islam in India, the Chach Nama is a key historical text that has been co-opted by different interest groups for several centuries, and it has significant implications for modern imaginings about the place of Islam in South Asia.
• Pakistan • India • Turkmenistan • China • Tajikistan • Kyrgyzstan • Uzbekistan: 977–1186 14 Delhi Sultanate: 3.2m²km • India • Pakistan • Bangladesh • Afghanistan: 1206–1526 15 Safavid Empire: 2.9m² Km • Iran • Afghanistan • Azerbaijan • Pakistan • Tajikistan • Iraq • Syria: 1501–1736 16 Samanid Dynasty
Islamic and Mughal architecture and art is widely noticeable in India, examples being the Taj Mahal and Jama Masjid. At the same time, Muslim rulers destroyed many of the ancient Indian architectural marvels and converted them into Islamic structures, most notably at Varanasi, Mathura, Ayodhya and the Kutub Complex in New Delhi.
The area of northern Sindh was especially influenced by Udasipanth. [15] The Udasi temples of Sindh are known as darbars. [15] [16] It is said that Sri Chand himself visited Thatta in Sindh, where a darbar commemorates his stay. [15] Sri Chand travelled to Sindh in the second half of the 16th century during the reign of the Tarkhan dynasty. [16]
In 712 C.E., Sindh was incorporated into the Caliphate, the Islamic Empire, and became the "Arabian gateway" into India (later to become known as Bab-ul-Islam, the gate of Islam). Sindh produced many Muslim scholars early on, "men whose influence extended to Iraq where the people thought highly of their learning", in particular in hadith, [130 ...
Sind (Arabic: سند, Urdu & Sindhi: سنڌ) was an administrative division of the Umayyad Caliphate and later of the Abbasid Caliphate in post-classical India, from around 711 CE with the Umayyad conquest of Sindh by the Arab military commander Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, to around 854 CE with the emergence of the independent dynasties of the Habbarid Emirate in Sindh proper and the Emirate of ...