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Evaluate the contribution of Qalandariyyah to medieval Indian culture.
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- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
The Qalandariyya was a loosely organised, itinerant and deliberately antinomian current within medieval Sufism, distinguished from the established silsilahs (Chishti, Suhrawardi, Qadiri) by its programmatic rejection of Sharia-bound convention, settled institutional life, and the formal hierarchy of pir and khanqah. Emerging in Central Asia and Iran in the early thirteenth century amid the disruption of…
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- Origins and Doctrinal Character
- Entry Into the Delhi Sultanate and Institutional Tension
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