Kashmiri Muslims by Ahanger HOBO

Islam came to Kashmir in the very beginning through the Ladakh king Rinchen(widely known as Rinchen-Shah) who, ultimately impressed by the simple teaching of Sufi Islam from Bulbul shah, beloved poet of Kashmir and the first Muslim faqir to visit the valley, converted to Islam to consolidate his reportedly otherwise weak position as a foreign ruler of the kingdom of Kashmir. the Sufi teachings which were spreading east from Persia through modern day Afghanistan, Pakistan & into North India, Resonated with the local Buddhist and Hindu populations.

They taught that man should strive to be with god(Experience God directly) and to have no attachments to this world. Sufism became the common ground between all, promoting unity of all being and all religions. King Shahab-Uddin(1354-1373). In Kashmir, Hamdani started to preach Islam in a peaceful and organized manner and with his followers built many mosques in the valley. The beautiful Papier-Mache mosque, Shah-i-Hamdan, in the old town is dedicated to his memory.

Islam continued to spread through the mouths of holy men in the valley, and a series of great Islamic kings from sultan Zain-Ul-Abidin in 1420 to the framed Mughal rulers who regained thought northern India from 1586 to 1753 consolidated Islam as the state religion.

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