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What was the role of Sufi Folk literature in the diffusion of Islam in India in general and in Deccan in particular

  • UPSC 2018
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Sufi folk literature is distinct from the elite Persian textual tradition of Sufism — composed in domestic, rural, and vernacular registers, it reached audiences the madrasa and khanqah's formal literary culture could not.

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  • The Genre: Domestic and Occupational Song-Forms
  • Language as Vehicle: From Persian Court Idiom to Regional Vernacular
  • The Deccan Theatre: Gulbarga, Bijapur, and the Silsilah Ecosystem
  • Institutional Base at Gulbarga
  • Literary Output and Its Register
  • Mechanisms of Diffusion: Performance, Shrine, and Oral Transmission
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