Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c22.s2.6

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It must be said at the outest that there is no recorded evidence to show that the Bhakti saints of the fifteenth century made any deliberate attempt to put a stop to conversions to Islam, or to re-convert people to Hinduism. Still there is good deal of circumstantial evidence to show that their reform movement did help check Muslim proselytizing activity It is significant that the socio-religious reformers associated with the Bhakti movement of the fifteenth century were all Hindus. There is some doubt about Kabir's parentage, but then "the whole background of Kabir's thought is Hindu".⁵ Indeed Kamal, the son of Kabir, who "probably had greater leanings towards Islamic ways of thinking", is remembered in the *Adi-grantha* by the disparaging line: "the family of Kabir foundered when Kamal the son was born."⁶