Lalla to Nuruddin: Rishi-Sufi Poetry of Kashmir (A Translation and Study)
Odin, Jaishree K.
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Book ID : 42346
ISBN-10 : 81-208-3690-1 / 8120836901
ISBN-13 : 978-81-208-3690-7 / 9788120836907
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2016
Edition : (Second Edition)
Language : English
ix, 160p., 23 cm. (First Edition pub. in 2013)
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Kashmir became the home of foreign missionaries from Persia and Central Asia during the fourteenth century. The activities of foreign missionaries intensified after Muslim rule was solidified with the establishment of the Shah Mir dynasty in 1339 that ruled Kashmir for about two hundred years. As Suhrawardi and Kubravi Sufi missionaries and their Kashmiri followers preached the new faith to the local people, an indigenous Sufi movement emerged in the countryside in the first decades of the fifteenth century under the leadership of Nuruddin Rishi, who is also known as Nund Rishi or Shaikh Nuruddin. Rishi Sufis lived austere and devout lives and worked towards the betterment of humanity by spreading the message of love, peace, and simple living.
