Advent of the Sufis to India

 The Suns migrated to the far-off countries and lived in the midst of the non-Muslims and
carried out their work of proselytization through peaceful means.
 The advent of the Sufis in India dates back to the Arab conquest of Sindh.
After the establishment of the Muslim rule in northern India, Suns from different Muslim countries
began to migrate and settle down in different parts of India.
 Early sufi saints came to India even before the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate.
 The basic features of sufism in India continued to be the same as they were in the Islamic
world.
However, its subsequent development was influenced more by Indian environment than by non-
Indian variants of sufism.
 Once the sufi orders took root in different parts of India, they followed their own phases of
growth, stagnation and revival.
These were determined largely by indigenous circumstance but influence of developments in
sufism outside India still persisted.
 Al I-lujwiri (A.D. 1088) was the earliest sufi to have settled in India. He was author of Kashf-ul
Mawub (famous Persian treatise on Sufism) .

 After establishment of Delhi sultanate. various sufi orders were introduced in India and
became new home of the suns, who along with many other refugees fled from those parts of the Islamic
world .

By the middle of the 14th century, Most part of the subcontinent were under influence of sufi activities .
Among various orders Chishti order became most popular