The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c19.28

c19.28

Bengal. In Gujrat, then under Hindu rule, a *sufi* established his head quarters¹; Muinuddin himself is reported to have arrived in Ajmer several years before Muizzuddin’s invasion². In the *sufi’s* pantheistic outlook and engrossment with the soul which transcended the formalism of religion, the spiritualist Hindu recognised a familiar cult; his modesty and absence of religious pedantry coupled with his supposed miraculous power born, no doubt, from the strength of his faith, held out a powerful appeal. Islam’s social values and the material prospects it then held out finally made this appeal irresistible, specially to those suffering from Brahminical caste-tyranny.