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Saints of the Indus: The Rise of Islam in South Asia's Borderlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

ANDRÉ WINK
ANDRÉ WINK*
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Abstract

This paper summarises an argument I make at much greater length in the forthcoming fourth volume of my book Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. For more detail and extensive footnotes and references I refer to the longer version.

The aim of this summary is to provide an outline of a new account of the rise of Islam in Sindh and more broadly the Indus borderlands — the latter comprise Sindh, Baluchistan, the Afghan tribal areas and the Kabul wilayat, Kafiristan (the later Nuristan), the western Panjab, and, to the east and south of the northernmost curve of the Indus river, the Kashmir valley and its surrounding mountain zone. With the exception of about half of the Afghan tribal lands which are part of Afghanistan and the valley of Kashmir which is part of India today, this area is broadly coterminous with Pakistan minus Lahore.

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Part IV: Beyond the Empire
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 26 , Issue 1-2 , January 2016 , pp. 353 - 363
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2016 

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