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Based primarily on a critical elaboration of Eaton’s The Rise of Islam in Bengal Frontier 1204-1760 (1993), this article attempts to describe the socio-cultural and religious role of the Sufi sheikhs in the conversion to Islam of the Bengali people during the period of Mughal Empire (1526-1858).
This paper explores the question of the linkage between languages and religions in selected works of Bengali Sufis, particularly Abdul Hakim. It revisits Tony K. Stewart’s seminal article in which he applied the theory of dynamic equivalence to.
Based primarily on a critical elaboration of Eaton’s The Rise of Islam in Bengal Frontier 1204-1760 (1993), this article attempts to describe the socio-cultural and religious role of the Sufi sheikhs in the conversion to Islam of the Bengali people during the period of Mughal Empire (1526-1858).
It also explains that one can attain supreme bliss by way of four spiritual paths: shariat (revealed law), tariqat (ways of devotion), haqiqat (truth) and marifat (union with God or Sufism). Sheikh Mansur's Sirnama and Ali Raza's Agam and Jvansagar describe, in Islamic vocabulary, the various truths and instructions about Sufism.
1 paź 1998 · The book is divided into nine chapters. Chapter two, "The Sahajiya-Nath-Sufi Confluence in Bengal," discusses the factors which led to the emergence of a large Bengali Muslim population and also gives an overview of Bengali Tantric traditions.
Abstract. The oral traditions and literatures of Bengal narrate several events to show how Islam had flourished in Bengal delta. The most famous Muslim Sufi Saint of Bengal was Shah Jalal Mujarrad (d.1346) of Sylhet.
The different Sufi orders or brotherhoods (Tariqas) represent the two major streams of Sufism: the path of passionate love (mysticism of love) and the path of discernment and lucidity (mysticism of emptiness). The Qadiriya, founded by Abd al-Qadir (1078-1166). Its principal work: al-Ghunya.
