Medieval India · c. 8th – 17th century CE

The Bhakti & Sufi Movements

Devotion as protest and synthesis — Alvars and Nayanars, Kabir, Nanak, Mira and Chaitanya, and the Chishti and Suhrawardi Sufis.

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