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" Farangī Maḥall - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Robinson, Francis
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AL
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English
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1061584
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ALei1981
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Main Entry
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Robinson, Francis
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Title & Author
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Farangī Maḥall - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Robinson, Francis
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Publication Statement
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Leiden: Brill
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Title of Periodical
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,994 words)
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Abstract
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Farangī Maḥall was a family of prominent Indian Ḥanafī scholars and mystics who flourished from the twelfth/eighteenth century to the twentieth. The family traces its ancestry through the great scholar and mystic Khwāja ʿAbdallāh Anṣārī of Herat (d. 481/1089) to Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, the Prophet’s host in Medina. It is not known when the family migrated to India but, according to family biographers, one ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn settled in Sihālī, in the Awadh province of north India, during the eighth/fourteenth century. His descendant Mullā Ḥāfiẓ was
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Islam.
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ALei1981.pdf
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