[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.habibullah-1945) › c19.28 # 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 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 - **Language:** English ### [c19.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.habibullah-1945.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. - [Previous: c19.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.habibullah-1945.c19.27) - [Next: c19.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.habibullah-1945.c19.29) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.habibullah-1945.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.habibullah-1945.c19.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.habibullah-1945.c19.28) · Pramāṇa