A Book of Conquest The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia

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  1. For a fuller exposition of Hindu subjects in Mahmud's court and army, see
    Finbarr B. Flood, Ob;ects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval
    "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2009).

  2. Fathnama, p. 173.
    17. Ibid., p. 184.

  3. Ibid., p. 185.

  4. A beautifully photographed recent travel diary by Annie Ali Khan illumi-
    nates this landscape. See Annie Ali Khan, "A Hindu Pilgrimage in Pakistan,"
    accessed January 2016, on Roads etJ Kingdoms. http://roadsandkingdoms.com
    /2016/a-hindu-pilgrimage-in-pakistan.

  5. Shaikh Khurdhid Hasan, "Origin of Chaukhandi Tombs," [ournal of Paki-
    stan Historical Society (April 1976), pp. 98-107.

  6. As cited in Shaikh Khurshid Hasan, "Inscriptions from Chaukhandi Tombs,"
    [ournal of the Pakistan Historical Society (Oct.-Dec. 20n), pp. 121-123.

  7. For a nuanced look at the role of captured men and women who were trained
    for elite roles, see Sunil Kumar, "BandagI and NaukarI: Studying transitions
    in Political Culture and Service under the North Indian Sultanates, 13-16th
    centuries," in Francesca Orsini and Samira Sheikh, eds., After Timur Came
    (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 60-108.

  8. This essay by Rizvi is an often-cited and highly influential study. It was first
    published in 1977, revised and enlarged in 1991, and republished again in
    2010. S. A. A. Rizvi, "Islamic Proselytization: Seventh to Sixteenth Century,"
    in Raziuddin Aquil, ed., Sufism and Society in Medieval India (New Delhi:
    Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 52-70.

  9. See Derryl N. Maclean, Religion and Society in Arab Sind (Leiden: E. J. Brill,
    1989). My chief disagreement with Maclean is on his understanding of
    Chachnama; I find the remainder of his study to be exemplary.

  10. Fathnama, p. ror.

  11. Ibid., p. 102.
    27. Ibid., p. 180.

  12. Ibid., pp. 25-27.

  13. Ibid., p. 166.

  14. Ibid., p. 168.
    31. Ibid.

  15. Ibid., p. 181.
    33. Baba Farid's .. ascetic practice of suspension (chilla-e makhus) is also reflected
    in sirsasana, part of the Hatha yoga and Vaishnavite yogic practices. See
    James Mallinson, The Khecarividyii of Adiniitha (London: Routledge, 2007).
    For a depiction of the practice by a Sufi, see the illustrated manuscript of
    Jami's (1604) held at Museo Lazaro Galdiano, viewable at http://goo.gl/aLtIDt.
    See also Khaliq Ahmed Nizami, The Life and Times of Shaikh Farid-u'd Din
    Gani-i Shakar (Aligarh: Aligarh University Press, 1955), p. 89.

  16. Farid is one of the four friends (char yaar), along with other Chishti saints
    Bahauddin Zakariya of Multan (1170-1267), Lal Shahbaz Qalandar of Sehwan
    (rr77-1274), and Jalahiddin Bukhari of Uch (ca. rr92-1294).
    35. Illahdiyeh ibn 'Abd al-Rahim Chishti Usmani, as recorded in Siyar al-Aqtab
    (Lucknow, India: Naval Kishur, 1881), pp. 167-69.

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