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Write brief essay: The Sufi Movement & its role in promoting communal harmony.

  • UPSC 2000
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Sufism, the mystic strand of Islam, is often credited with softening the boundary between Hindu and Muslim religious life in medieval India — a claim worth examining critically rather than accepting at face value.

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  • The Theological Basis for Openness
  • Institutional Spaces of Shared Devotion
  • Limits and Counter-Evidence
  • Political Amplification Under the Mughals
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