Religion and Society in Arab SindThe book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Harrisburg, Pub. by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey; Publication date: 1884; Subjects: Geology; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology; |
Contents
NonMuslims in Sind at the Time of the Arab Conquest | 1 |
Other schools | 10 |
Conquest and Conversion | 22 |
Hindu and Buddhist Response | 50 |
Collaboration reconsidered | 66 |
Persistence of Hinduism | 77 |
The transmission of ḥadīth learning to Sind | 103 |
Mystics and Ascetics | 110 |
Theologians and Philosophers | 125 |
Ismailism and the Islamic environment | 142 |
Ismailism and the nonMuslim environment | 148 |
Conclusions | 154 |
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Shiites and Khārijites | 118 |
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Abbasid Abd Allah Abū Aḥmad al-Daybuli al-Qāsim al-Sindi Allāh amān Arab conquest Arab Muslims Arab period Arōr aṣḥāb Baladhuri Baladhuri 1866 Brahmanābād Brahmin budd buddah Buddhist caliph caste century A.D. Chach Chachnamah 1939 collaboration conversion converts to Islam Cousens da'wah Dahir Daybul Dhahabi dhimmis dynasty evidence Fatimid fourth/tenth century Ghaznavid governor Habbarid ḥadīth Ḥawqal 1938 vol Hindu Hinduism Hiuen Tsiang 1884 ibid Ibn al-Athir Ibn al-Nadim Ibn Hajar Ibn Hawqal Ibn Ḥawqal 1938 Imām Indian individuals inter-regional commerce Ishaq Islam Ismaili Iṣṭakhri jizyah Khārijites later Mahāyāna Majumdar Manṣurah Maqdisi mercantile Buddhists mleccha monasteries monks Moreover mosque Muḥammad Mukrān Multan Mūsá non-Muslims noted Pasupata qāḍī Qur'an reference region religion religious ruler Saivite Sam'āni Samani Sammitiya scholars Shi'ites Sind-related nisbahs Sindi Buddhists Sindi Muslims Sindi nisbahs Sindi traditionists sources stūpas temple term Thaqafite third/ninth century tion trade route tradition Tsiang 1884 vol Umar urban Ya'qubi Yaqut