Before invasion of Moghul, Chola King invited Turkish of the Seljuk Turks from Ottoman Empire from the factions of Hanafi school (Known as Rowther in Tamil Nadu) for trade link in 1212 AD. A biggest armada of Turks traders and missionaries settled in Tharangambadi, Nagapattinam, Karaikal, Muthupet, Koothanallur and Podakkudi. Turkish Rowthers were unable to convert Hindus in Tanjore regions since Hindus were very stubborn in their belief, so the Turkish mission and traders settled in this area's with their armada and expanded to a moderate size of Islam community. These new settlements were now added to the Rowther community. Hanafi franctions have a mix of fair and darker complexions because they were more closely connected with the Turkish than others in South, they also follow purdah same as Turks and Iranian compared to Marakkars who just wear sarees. There are some Turkish Anatolian and Turkish Safavid Inscriptions found in wide area from Tanjore to Thiruvarur mainly in Koothanallur Big Mosque and Chinnapalli and in many villages. These inscriptions seized by Madras Museum and are available for public viewing. Contact Archeologic Division at Madras Museum, for viewing and further research. Some Turkish inscriptions also stolen from Big Mosque of Koothanallur in 1850.
There are two factions of Rowthers in Tamil Nadu, Sultan Ala-ud-din Khilji's (Moghul) clan covers majority of Tamil Nadu while Turkish clans remains in Tharangambadi (Nagapattinam), Karaikal, Muthupet, Koothanallur and Podakkudi until now. Both Moghul and Turkish Hanafi expanded with population of almost 1 million Rowthers
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Marowtherjew 2
Rowther is the racial term for those Southern Indians who are the descendants of the Mughal cavalrymen having both Dravidian, Turkish and Arab blood. Unlike the other South Indian Muslims they were of the Hanafi school of law . They brought Islam to Malacca but most of them who came to the Malayan peninsula changed their mazhab or school of law to Shafieyyah mostly because they married Malay women like Haji Naina Navina Nagore Pitchay the third hereditary Tiger of Patna.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Ah! Desiderata
Existence is one with God as the Source of Existence , indeed as the very spring of its infinite existence.This is the meaning of Oneness taught by all true sages. It is Existence that precedes Essence as Heidegger has taught us and sages before him.
This is monotheistic monism not pantheism because even though God subsumes everything , everything is not God.
But as long as we are going throuh the trials and tribulation of this fantasy world, we cannot grasp the meaning of the words "And we are going to our Maker as one soul"
"This existence is one" is a revelation , an inspiration although one can reason this out but the bliss of discovery is different for one who tastes it than for one who merely has reasoned it out with the Intellect which is not mundane reason but that facility which promotes spiritual understanding and which in religion is symbolised by the archangel Gabriel. Not that Gabriel is not real but that unless the rational faculty in a man has been thoroughly sublimated and become more than supranormal, Gabriel wil not appear to the man.
This is monotheistic monism not pantheism because even though God subsumes everything , everything is not God.
But as long as we are going throuh the trials and tribulation of this fantasy world, we cannot grasp the meaning of the words "And we are going to our Maker as one soul"
"This existence is one" is a revelation , an inspiration although one can reason this out but the bliss of discovery is different for one who tastes it than for one who merely has reasoned it out with the Intellect which is not mundane reason but that facility which promotes spiritual understanding and which in religion is symbolised by the archangel Gabriel. Not that Gabriel is not real but that unless the rational faculty in a man has been thoroughly sublimated and become more than supranormal, Gabriel wil not appear to the man.
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