The New Great Game: Bring in Iran
By Jyoti Malhotra
20 Feb 2009
This is why the Indian Muslim connection with West Asia or the Middle East, if you like is so intimate. The Shias of Ghazipur, a dusty town in the backwaters of Benaras, believe that during Moharram Imam Hussein leaves the Karbala and comes to India. The Deoband school is said to have inspired the hard-line religious strain in the Saudi kingdom. The 'Sirapuranam' is a 17th-18th century Tamil poem on the life of the Prophet inspired by a Sufi master of the Qadiri order that was founded in Persia in the 11th century and spread from Baghdad.
http://www.newageislam.com/the-new-great-game--bring-in-iran/islam-and-the-west/d/1206
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