The Bhakti movement emerged between the 7th and 17th centuries. Like Sufism was a form of protest against the complexities of orthodox Islam, the Bhakti movement was a protest against the complexities ...

If the hatred between India and Pakistan is viewed in gender perspective, then all the conflicts, including Kashmir, seem to be overshadowed by attempts to dominate each other, which stem from the ...

There is no word in English to describe Sufis, so they have been called mystics, meaning people who have a mystery about them. Sufism is a movement within Islam that started in opposition to the ...

With the arrival of the Sufi movement, we see the rise of charismatic gurus across India, who often seemed to overshadow the temple deities. The old Tantrik rituals were replaced by a new kind of ...