Kashmir
Subtitle: humanity stifled
By: Mohammad Ishaq Khan.
Contributors: noted Kashmiri historian who has authored  History of Srinagar (3rd ed.2007); Kashmir's Transition to Islam: The Role of Muslim Rishis (Manohar, 3rd ed. 2002; Gulshan 4th ed. 2005); Experiencing Islam (Sterling, 1997); Crisis of a Kashmiri Muslim: Spiritual and Intellectual (Gulshan, 2008). His magnum opus "Biographical Dictionary of Sufism in South Asia" is being launched by Manohar in July 2009.
Publisher: Aamir Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Srinagar
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
First sentence: The thought of tahajjud
The source of spiritual good
Description: Economically expressed, almost haiku-like in their allusive appeal which provokes the imagination of the reader without dictating to it ... Little as we know about Islam we are continually struck by what seems to us a strongly Sufi world-view that embraces the turmoil of Kashmir, the natural beauties of the place, its particular history and spiritual identity and the predicament of humanity there with a wider reference to the outside world.
Notes: Poems. Stealthily ensnared
Bewitchingly ensconced.
Souls awakened
Strikinly ensembled
Down the gorge bathed
Up on the hill ironed
Gorgeously dressed
For a union embraced