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Mansur Al Hallaj's mystical odyssey, spanning from Baghdad to Mecca, Egypt to India, resonates with Sufis and scholars for over a millennium. Kashmir, a spiritually vibrant but historically remote region, holds a significant place in his storied travels, despite tenuous connections. Scant evidence of his physical presence in Kashmir positions his influence more as a myth than historical fact. Anecdotes of his visit, often metaphorical, emerged in Persian Sufi literature centuries later, contributing to the modern claim of his Kashmir journey. Kashmir's ancient religious history, dive...

She is remembered as a women’s rights activist and a reformer. But her writings and story also percolated into the popular imagination in India and live on.

The urs [death anniversary] of the sonorous Sufi poet of the 18th-19th century, Sachal Sarmast, starts in just a few...

Merging the personal and the public, this highly readable book will appeal to serious academics and to shrine culture’s die-har...

This is Mir Taqi Mir, invoking the candle and moth symbolism — something ubiquitous in classical Urdu poetry. Indeed, it is found