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" Bahāwalpūr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Barnett, Richard B.
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English
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1060861
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ALei1258
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Barnett, Richard B.
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Bahāwalpūr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Barnett, Richard B.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,876 words)
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Bahāwalpūr , now both a division and a city in Pakistani Panjab, is located along the southeast banks of the Sutlej, Chenab, and Indus Rivers, between Multan and Rājputāna. It emerged as a state in the early 1100s/1700s, reviving a riverine ecology that had been neglected for three millennia, then expanding into the Cholistān Desert and attracting thousands of new settlers from Sind, Panjab, Multan, and Rājputāna. Its ruling ʿAbbāsid clan, who traced their ancestry to the Prophet’s uncle ʿAbbās, ruled a seventy percent Muslim population of mostly Jāts
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Islam.
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ALei1258.pdf
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