TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rahman,Mahmudur
TI  - The Political History of Muslim Bengal: an Unfinished Battle of Faith 
SN  - 9781527520615
AV  - BP63 .P655 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Islam
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - Muslims
KW  - History
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 2; b
N2  - Bangladesh, the eastern half of earth's largest delta, Bengal, is today an independent country of 163 million people. Among the 98% ethnic Bengali population, above 90 percent practice Islam. Surprisingly, Buddhism was the predominant religion of the region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium. In the midst of a long and fierce Brahman-Buddhist conflict, political Islam arrived in Bengal in the very early 13th century. Against the background of the above history, this book tells the story of successive religious and political transformations, touching upon the sensitive subject of Bengali M
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