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" Janjīrā - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
McLeod, John
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English
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1062338
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ALei2735
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McLeod, John
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Janjīrā - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ McLeod, John
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,094 words)
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Janjīrā was a princely state in India, south of Mumbai, with an area of 844 square kilometres and a population (in 1941) of 103,557. Most of its inhabitants were Hindus, but the rulers were Muslims of African ancestry. The African-Indians of Janjīrā were called either Sīdī—probably from sayyidī , “my master,” originally a title for aristocrats in general, later confined largely to African nobles and now used for any African-Indian (for a discussion of etymologies, with alternative suggestions, see Lodhi, 302–3)—or Ḥabshī ( ḥabashī , Abyssinian). The
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Islam.
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ALei2735.pdf
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