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" Madurai - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Shokoohy, Mehrdad
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English
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1062625
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ALei3022
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Shokoohy, Mehrdad
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Shokoohy, Natalie H.
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Madurai - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Shokoohy, Mehrdad
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,632 words)
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Madurai (also spelt Madura or Mathura, in Tamil Nadu state, India, latitude N 9°54′, longitude E 78°6′), a Hindu pilgrimage centre on the river Vaigai, was under Muslim rule following raids by the Delhi sultans ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Khaljī (r. 695–715/1296–1316) (Vaṣṣāf, 4:527; Amīr Khusraw, 126, 172–4, 181; Baranī, 283) and his successor Mubārak Shāh (r. 716–20/1316–20) (Baranī, 398–9; Firishta, 1:126), culminating in the short-lived independent Maʿbar sultanate (734–79/1334–77). As governor, Jalāl al-Dīn
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Islam.
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ALei3022.pdf
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