A Brief Survey of Folk Sufi Poets of India.
Sufism represents the inward or esoteric side of Islam, often contested as an alternate form of Islam. Studies show that the first Sufi to visit India was Mansur al-Hallaj, but this fact is contested as many believe that al-Hujwiri, commonly known as Data Ganj Baksh, was the first Sufi to visit Indi...
| Publicado en: | IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 79 - 93 |
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