Kashmiri Muslims are ethnic Kashmiris who practice Islam and are native to the Kashmir Valley of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. [1] [2] The majority of Kashmiri Muslims are Sunni, while Shias form a minority. [3] They refer to themselves as "Koshur" in …

The Muslims living in Kashmir are of the same stock as the Kashmiri Pandit community and are designated as Kashmiri Muslims. [38] Kashmiri Muslims are descended from Kashmiri Hindus who converted to Islam, and Kashmiri Pandits are the predecessors of the Kashmiri Muslims, [39] who now form the majority population in the Kashmir Valley [40] [41 ...

Islam is the majority religion practised in Kashmir, with 97.16% of the region's population identifying as Muslims as of 2014. [1] The religion came to the region with the arrival of Mir sayed Ali shah Hamdani, a Muslim Sufi preacher from Central Asia and Persia, beginning in …

2022年5月19日 · Kashmiri Muslims imagine and narrate their struggle against the state’s occupation as jihad, and as Zunaira Komal argues, Kashmiri Muslims have had their “Islamic framework of physical and moral struggle labeled and collapsed under the global phantasm of ‘terrorism,’ a tactic that is strategically deployed by the global war on terror ...

2025年3月23日 · Relying on the power of numbers, Kashmiri Muslim politics was, at once, inherently democratic and imbued with Islamic ethics. The Ahrars deemed that the Ahmadi rejection of the finality of prophethood – and their belief that the movement's founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was the promised Messiah – contradicted core Islamic tenets.

2017年6月24日 · By the 12th century, we find mention of Muslims serving in the royal court and army of the Kashmiri Hindu king Harshadeva. Thus, the story of Muslims in Kashmir in this early period remains vague. On one hand, there is some evidence to suggest that Muslims were influential even in the Brahminical royal courts and that many lower-caste Hindus ...

The origin of the political identity of the Muslims in Kashmir goes back to the 1930s when the Muslim subjects openly defied Dogra rule in the state. The significance of mass agitation in the political consciousness of the Muslims erupted in Kashmir by the alleged desecration of the Holy Quran on 13 July 1931. This episode gave birth to the All ...

Over three quarters of Kashmir's population is Muslim, mainly following the Suficustoms commonly found in India. Kashmiri Muslims fall into four groups: the Sheikh, the Sayed, the Mughal, and the Pathan. The Sheikhs are by far the most numerous and are thought to be descended from Hindus. They have clans, which are called krāms. There appear ...

2019年8月24日 · About 300 BCE, Buddhism arrived in Kashmir from further south in India and started to flourish in the region. Before this, Hinduism (of some form) had been the predominant religion in Kashmir for centuries. An important feature of Hinduism, particularly in Kashmir, was the caste system.

2025年3月26日 · This article explores Hindu nationalism’s long historical engagement with Kashmiri Muslims. Beginning with a brief background tracing the establishment of a Hindu state in Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir, this paper focuses on the mid-twentieth century: from the late 1930s to approximately 1965.