The Wonderful Miracles of Sufi Saints of Kashmir


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This volume in Persian verse is authored by Pirzada Ghulam Rasool Shaiva Zoonimari (d. 1288 AH). He was the father of Historian Hasan Khoihami. Its translation in Urdu was rendered in 2000 AD by late Khwaja Nazir Ahmad Kashtwari (retd. Under Secretary GAD J&K Govt.). Its English translation in verbatim has been attempted by the compiler. The book describes the miracles performed by the Kashmiri saints, most of who belonged to the spiritual lineage of Sultan-ul-Arifin Shaikh Hamza Makhdum Kashmiri (RA)




My Recollections


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The book covers the incidents in the life of the author from his childhood till date, spanning about eight decades. These incidents were recalled during his stay in UAE in 2014 and were subsequently update to present date 2021 at Srinagar. Many of the incidents were hair-raising witnessing narrow escape from death. It is bound to make an interesting reading for all sections of people.




Predictions of Shah Nematullah Wali (RA)


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The predictions of Shah Nematullah Qadri (RA) have great importance in the Persian literature and have remained on the roof top of common fame and most of these have proved right till date. Shah Nematullah Qadri has expressed appropriately in the form of the Persian verse and it becomes known that he has got evidenced through revelation and inspiration and has not taken any help from any hints, allusion or hidden indications of future happenings or personalities, instead he has described these in such clear words that there remains possibility of not an iota of doubt and not only his stated names but also their titles by letters even have proved to be right.




Shah Nemat-ul-lah wali (RA) - Predictions


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The book was written in Persian by Hazrat Shah Nematullah Wali (1331-1431 AD) born in Syria. He was a great Sufi Saint who authored over a hundred books in Arabic and Persian languages. Most of the predictions made in this book about six centuries back have come true. He predicted the establishment of Mughal rule in Hindustan with names of kings and the battles that they would fight. He predicted about the British rule in Hindustan, the freedom struggle and the division of the country into two. His predictions about future make the readers curious and compell them to pay attention to the book. Shah Nematullah Wali was born in 734 AH/1331AD and passed away around 834 AH/1431 AD. He was born in Syria but spent most of his life at Samatqand, Herat, Yezd and Kirman. His order of Sufism “Nemat-i-Ilahi” is still exists in Iran and Faras. The predictions made by Hazrat Shah Nematullah Wali in Persian poetry are of vital importance. Having turned out to be mostly true , his work has achieved heights of fame. He must have been divinely inspired to have been able to describe future events with such clarity, without resorting to metaphorical laguage, leaving no doubt in the reader's mind about the obviousness of the events he was foretelling. Even the names and titles of the historical figures and events he speaks about in his predictions have proven to be correct.




OUR HERITAGE


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The book covers the musings of the author from the year 2017 to date in continuation of Kashmir Chronicles Part 1 covering his monthly musings from 2011 to 2016-published earlier. These write ups appeared in various local dailies, his publications, his books under publication etc., and cover topics of general interest. These will make very interesting reading




Flower Garden


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The book covers some interesting extracts from the compiler's publications blogs, write-ups in dailies and age-old handwritten manuscripts, etc.




Kashmir’s Contested Pasts


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A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri narratives, Kashmir’s Contested Pasts contends that these traditions drew on and influenced each other to imagine Kashmir as far more than simply an unsettled territory or a tourist paradise. By offering a historically grounded reflection on the memories, narrative practices, and institutional contexts that have informed, and continue to inform, imaginings of Kashmir and its past, the book suggests new ways of understanding the debates over history, territory, identity, and sovereignty that shape contemporary South Asia.




The Wonderful Miracles of Kashmiri Sufi Saints


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This 150 year old book will give you insight in to the lives of the Kashmiri Sufi Saints who have performed wonderful miracles that has strengthened the faith of people in living a life of austerity and has been helpful to mankind irrespective of any creed, cast or color. The book covers a period of the previous about five centuries of Kashmiri saints besides touching some important personalities, preceptors covering past fourteen and half centuries. The foot notes have been added by the compiler at the end of some chapters with descriptions from various historical sources besides photographs. The Quranic verses with artistic calligraphy have been added between some chapters. Also family tree of the author (Shaiva) covering about four centuries has been recorded at the end.




Understanding Culture and Society in India


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This book is an in-depth account of people’s cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It brings out the significance of Sufi and deity shrines as alternative places of worship that give meaning and purpose to people’s lives. It includes sites and practices commonly associated with Islam/Sufism and Hinduism as spaces of shared culture. Most of the existing literature of Jammu and Kashmir is on Kashmir focusing mostly on topics such as politics, state, identity, conflict or violence. This book proposes to go beyond these works by delimiting the focus and area of the study to culture, society and religion. It explores the sites of religious pluralism and tolerance in the violence-ridden territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The chapters are mainly based on ethnographic data collected through qualitative methods like observation – participant and non-participant, case studies, in-depth interviews and oral history. The book is of interest to researchers, both faculty and graduate students, in the areas of sociology of religion, social anthropology, religious studies, cultural studies, Sufism, shrines and deity worship in South Asia.




Islam and Shaikh al Alam


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This book entitled ‘Islam & Shaikh al-̒Alam Shaikh Nur al-Din (Reh.A) (A Great Da’i, Sufi Saint and Poet of Kashmir)’ covers all the aspects of Islamic themes in a lucid way and linked these themes with the teachings of the dynamic personality of the great Da’i, Sufi Saint and Poet of the Kashmir valley of the 14th century. i.e. Shaikh al-̒Alam Shaikh Nūr al-Din (Reh.A). All the teachings of Shaikh in the form of Shruks are derived from the Qurān and Ḥadīth. This book highlights his teachings as basic tenets of Islām. Secondly, this book helps in introducing Shaikh al-̒Ālam (Reh.A) to the international community as the real Islāmic Scholar, who devoted whole of his life for the cause and propagation of message of Islām. In this way the main objective of this book is to bring the people of Kashmir in particular and whole humanity in general to come closer to Qurān and Ḥadīth with the help of Shaikh al-̒Ālam’s (Reh.A) poetry. This justifies his poetry as the teachings of Qurān and Ḥadīth in Kashmiri Language. May Allah (s.w.t) accept this book and made it beneficial to all of us in remaining steadfast with the teachings of Islam and a means of source of salvation in this world as well as in the hereafter.