The Narvaw Walla

  The arrival of Islam added to Kashmirs rich religious past and complexity. Sufi - infused  Sunni Islam slowly seeped into the compact Kashmir valley starting perhaps from the late 1000, and Certainly from 1200. It came via travelers, traders, mercenaries, missionaries and returning Kashmiris.  One of the most striking features of the Spread of Islam in Kashmir is the key role played by an indigenous Sufi Order, the Muslim Rishis, further more , pre Islamic Kashmir, rishis were world renouncers rather than social reformers, seeking individual salvation by retiring to forests and caves in the mountains and inflicting on themselves austerities in the hope of attaining release from worldly desires and bonds. From the early 1300, Islam was brought more actively into Kashmir by Selfless Divines, such as Bulbul Shah , from Turkestan Via Baghdad,and more particularly by Hazrat Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, from Hamadan  Iran. He is regarded by the Kashmiri Muslims as the Amir -i- ...