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The mosques built by the Muslim monarchs of India are more in number than can be enumerated by any historian. The grandees and provincial officials too built mosques in far off cities and towns and out of some are magnificent edifices built at considerable cost, but here we would give only a brief account of …
Major Beautiful Mosques (Masjids) by Muslim Rulers of India Read More »
Muslims have played a very significant role in the national struggle for freedom. They have been in the forefront of it. After all it was Muslims from whose hands the British had wrested power in India. Arrival of British in India In 1601, an East India company trade delegation under the leadership of Vasco da …
Extraordinary and Unmatched Role of Muslims in India’s Independence Read More »
No trace of the formal educational institutions or madrasahs (as they later came to be known) is to be found during the early days of Islam. The first attempt to bring the study of different branches of learning under a systematic and standardized institution was made in the fourth century after Hijrah (Muslim calendar) when …
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It is amazing that although the chief Sufistic Orders had their origins outside India, sufism attained its greatest success in India. This was due partly to the circumstances of history and partly to the inherent Indian character and temperament. There branched forth from these Orders such fraternities in India which themselves grew into permanent orders …
Incredible Contribution of Great Sufis to India | Sufism in India Read More »
The first institution known to history for the care of sick and wounded was perhaps established by Hippocrates. Bimaristan is the Persian word for hospitals while its Arabic version is Maristan. In the Muslim era the Umayyad Caliph Walid bin Abdul Malik was the first ruler who set up a hospital in 706 and appointed …
Muslim Rulers gave Huge Number of Hospitals to India Read More »
India was abounded in fruit trees like mangoes, jack fruit, tamarind etc from the ancient times. But the Muslim rulers of India, besides setting up new cities and settlements and providing means of irrigation, imported fruit and flower plants from far off lands and laid out large formal gardens. To name only a few a …
Muslim Rulers Enriched India with Huge Gardens and Fruit Trees Read More »
Muslim Rulers of India and especially those of Deccan gave special attention to construction and management of water bodies for the purpose of ease of irrigation and reclamation of waste lands. We have been able to collect information only about a few of the tanks and canals out of huge number of water bodies built …
Muslim Rulers Gave Huge Number of Water Bodies to India Read More »
Muslim rulers of India gave innumerable roads and highways to India and it is not possible to give a detailed account of each of them here in this post. Therefore we are mentioning only the main and reputed thoroughfares of the Muslim period. The highway connecting the famous city of Sehwan (earlier Siwistan) in Sindh …
Muslim Rulers gave Highways & Postal System to India Read More »
The current educational system of India strikes at the very roots of existence of Muslims as a separate religious and cultural community and throws their whole future in India into jeopardy. Muslims Education and Indian Constitution The Indian Constitution has guaranteed the freedom of creed and cultural development to all individuals and communities and bestowed …
When the Muslims had first set their feet on the Indian soil, they found here the ancient sciences and philosophy and an abundance of food and raw materials but, culturally India had lapsed into isolation from the civilized World for a long time. The mighty mountains on the north and the sea on the other …
