Tracing Rishism in Kashmir:  A Study of Nūr al-Dīn’s Rīshī Family Tree

Ishtiyaq Ahmad Wagay

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2022.v04i01.4394

Tracing Rishism in Kashmir: A Study of Nūr al-Dīn’s Rīshī Family Tree

Author(s)	Ishtiyaq Ahmad Wagay
Country	India
Abstract	In the Kashmir Valley, there has always been a group of religion-oriented people who profoundly impacted the Kashmiri society. Because of their religiosity, people commonly knew them by the name of Rīshīs. With the advent of Ṣūfī preachers from Persia and Central Asia in the fourteenth century, a new chapter opened in the Kashmiri religious history. As they came with a humanitarian attitude to spread Islām, by the turn of the sixteenth century, the Valley had a majority of Muslims. Prior to this, Hinduism predominated Kashmir, which was rooted in its traditionally accepted caste structure, ritual system, Kula system, et cetera. Besides Ṣūfī preachers, the indigenous Rīshīs also paved the stage for the transformation of Kashmiri society by opposing Hinduism and providing the masses an alternative. The connection and influence of Ṣūfīs on the local Rīshīs, particularly Shaykh Nūr al-Dīn, commonly known as Nund Rīshī, accounted for two forms within the Rīshī movement, which came to be known as Muslim Rishism and non-Islamic Rishism. Nūr al-Dīn furnished the Kashmiri people with a Rīshī lineage or Rīshī family tree whose originator and founder is none other than the Prophet Muḥammadﷺ himself. The present research will trace and examine this Rīshī family tree in relation to the Rīshī movement in Kashmir until the times of Nūr al-Dīn.
Keywords	Kashmir, Rīshī, Rīshī movement, Shaykh Nūr al-Dīn, Rīshī family tree.
Field	Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In	Volume 4, Issue 1, January-February 2022
Published On	2022-02-21
Cite This	Tracing Rishism in Kashmir: A Study of Nūr al-Dīn’s Rīshī Family Tree - Ishtiyaq Ahmad Wagay - IJFMR Volume 4, Issue 1, January-February 2022. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2022.v04i01.4394
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2022.v04i01.4394
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gsgxfm

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