and trade. Paragraph 1: Architecture- Taj Mahal‚ Jahangir Mahal‚ Agra fort‚ and Fatehpursikri. Came up with the idea of domes‚ arches‚ and vaults. Religion- Mosque and Sufism. Paragraph 2: Arts- Humayun called to Persian artists to join him in India under his reign. (Mir Sayyid Ali and Khwaja Abd al- Sabad). Music- Sufism (dance and music) Khusro was a really well known singer and a dancer. Tansen of Gwalior (Akbar)‚ largest numbers of books on classical Indian music in Persian were written
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MIRABAI: Meerabai (c. 1498 – c. 1557 AD) (the word ’bai’ in Rajasthani is an informal term commonly used to refer a girl) was a princess Hindu mystical and a devotee of Lord Krishna from Rajasthan. She was one of the most significant figures Sant of the Vaishnava bhakti movement. Some 1‚300 pads (poems) commonly known as bhajans (sacred songs) are attributed to her. These are popular throughout India and have been published in several translations worldwide. In the bhakti tradition‚ they are in
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has changed over time and created sects they are specifically not referred to as denominations in terms of "various valid approaches to the same religion.” The two common sects are Sunnism and Shiasm. Additional to this there are the divisions of Sufism and Ahmadiyya. This has lead to some public disagreements‚ yet Islam is still regarded as less divided than other religions - say Judaism and Christianity. Comprising 940 million of the 1.1 billion Muslims‚ Sunnism is the largest sect by far. The
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Analyse how the individual is guided towards acheiving inner peace in TWO religious traditions. (18/20)Inner peace is defined as an internal quality of calmness and security which puts the mind at ease and fills the adherent with a sense of tranquility and assurance. For adherents to Christianity and Islam‚ inner peace is an inevitable and hugely rewarding consequence of genuine faith. It is developed rather than striven for‚ through a unique combination of personal‚ communal‚ scriptural and doctrinal
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struggle to overcome the obstacles in the way of submission‚ or the process of Shahada. The Sufism movement provides Muslims with a path to follow in order to contribute to the attainment of world peace through 3 stations. These mirror the teaching that peace can only be found in Allah‚ encouraging the submission as the initial step in moving towards world peace‚ “Submitting our…bodies to Allah is Sufism” (Sufism Equals to Islam). The teaching of submission and anticipation of pleasing Him‚ establishes
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Prize in Literature in 2007. Not an exaggeration for a writer whose repertoire is as eclectic as the range of issues and concerns she explored. Her writings cover modernism‚ post-modernism‚ politics‚ socialism‚ communism‚ feminism‚ science fiction and Sufism. She is now regarded as one of the most important writers in English to emerge in the latter half of twentieth century‚ but her fiery words and the knack of speaking uncomfortable and unpalatable truths through her were a source of consternation in
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it was they who transmitted the hadith and the Quran before these were written down and compiled‚ ensuring a critical structural role for companionship and face-to-face speech—“presence”—in the transmission of Islamic knowledge (Messick 1993). In Sufism‚ those who attend the sohbet of a given sheikh—who is then known as their sheikh-i sohbet—are said to be his sahaba‚ and members of the cemaat would occasionally refer to an absent member or close sympathizer of the cemaat as a sahib in their conversations
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Sufi’s practice distinct rituals because they believe these rituals bring them closer to Allah. Sufi’s disregard worldly possessions and live an austere lifestyle. Sufis belong to smaller brotherhoods that are focused on the saints of Sufism. Sufi’s venerate their saints‚ pray to them‚ and make pilgrimages to their gravesites. Other Muslims view this as a form of idolatry. The three branches of Islam are Sunni‚ Shi’ite‚ and Sufi. All three groups are strict adherents to Islam‚
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Islamic rule‚ non-Muslims who were allowed to practice their faith as "people of the book" in return for their paying special taxes Al-Ghazali Great Muslim theologian‚ legal scholar‚ and Sufi mystic (1058-1111) who was credited with incorporating Sufism into mainstream Islamic thought hadiths Traditions passed on about the saying or actions of Muhammad and his immediate followers; rank second only to Quran as a source of Islamic law hajj The pilgrimage to Mecca enjoined on every Muslim who’s able
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Upanisads‚ HarperCollins India‚ 1994 4. Singh‚ Harbans. The Heritage of Sikhs. 1994. New Delhi: Manohar. 5. Sharma‚ Arvind. Study of Hinduism. (Columbia‚ South Carolina: University of South Carolina‚ 2003). 6. “Puja”. Encyclopedia of Religion. 7. “Sufism”. Encyclopedia of Religion. 8. "Three Hundred Ramayanas." OPEN Magazine. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2012. <http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/three-hundred-ramayanas>. 9. “Varna and Jati”. Encyclopedia of Religion. 10. <post
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