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Dabistān-i madhāhib
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Dabistān-i madhāhib (“School of religions”) is an encyclopaedic work in Persian, which was composed anonymously in mid-eleventh/seventeenth-century India. It describes and classifies various world religions—Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity—and several related sects and esoteric groups active in early modern India, Iran, and Central Asia. Combining extensive textual knowledge, oral reports, and personal observations of the author, the
Dabistān opens a unique window on the religious climate of the time. Scholars have deb…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
