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To: JPR who wrote (9545)	11/12/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

dawn.com A Glimpse at the History of KASHMIRIS Mass Conversions in late 1300s. Renaming Azad Kashmir University to Shah-i-Hamadan Amir-i-Kabir Mir Sayyad Ali Hamadani University THE Azad Kashmir government should name the Azad Jammu and Kashmir University after Shah-i-Hamadan Amir-i-Kabir Mir Sayyad Ali Hamadani who preached Islam in Kashmir in the 14th century during his three visits to the valley between 1372 to 1384. It was during this period that mass conversions from Buddhism and Hinduism to Islam took place in the Kashmir valley which ultimately made it overwhelmingly and predominantly Muslim, with Islamic culture and civilization a prominent feature of its social life. It is precisely Kashmir's Muslim character bestowed on it chiefly by Shah-i-Hamadan That necessitates and validates its accession to Pakistan. This will create goodwill and brotherly feelings in the hearts of the people of the valley for the people of Azad Kashmir and of Pakistan. A Hindu historian, P N K Bamazai, in his book, A History of Kashmir from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Vol. II, first edition 1962, Metropolitan Book Co. Delhi, wrote: "But the most prominent among the Sufi missionaries was Sayyed Ali Hamadani, who by his learning, piety and devotion, is said to have made 37,000 converts to Islam. Known in Kashmir as Shah-i-Hamadan, he may well be said to have practically established Islam in Kashmir and laid its foundations well and true. "Sayyed Ali Hamadani was a versatile genius, a great saint and a scholar ..... His deep scholarship and his spiritual attainments were responsible for the furtherance of the conversion of the valley to Islam. ... Some of his learned followers visited the remote corners of the valley and by their religious discourses effected the conversion of a large number of people to Islam." ABDUL AZIZ QURESHI Muzaffarabad