About the Book: The Islamic Connection: South Asia and the Gulf
The region inhabited by the largest number of Muslimsroughly 500 million-today
isSouth Asia. In the course of the Islamization process that began in the eighth
century, the region developed a distinct Indo-Islamic civilization that
culminated in the Mughal Empire. In the Gulf, while paying lip service to the
power centres, including Mecca and Medina, this civilization cultivated its own
variety of Islam, which was based on Sufism. Over the last fifty years,
pan-Islamic ties have intensified between these two regions. Gathering together
some of the best specialists on the subject, this volume explores these
ideological, educational