Islam and Jainism
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Islam and Jainism came in close contact with each other following the Islamic conquest from Central Asia and Persia in the seventh to the twelfth centuries, when much of north and central India came under the rule of the Delhi Sultanate, and later the Mughal empire.
The Miyana Rajputs, many of whom were Jains (as per their last name) embraced Islam at the time of Allauddin Khilji (Kumar Suresh Singh, Rajendra Behari Lal, Anthropological Survey of India, P. 9390, Gujarat).
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[edit] Muslim invaders and Jain institutions
Islams impact on Jain and Buddhist in India has been far worse than for the majority Hindu. The first mosque built in Delhi, the "Quwwat al-Islam" (near Qutb Minar) was built after demolishing the Jain temples built previously during the Tomar rule and leaving certain parts of the temple outside the mosque proper.[1]
[edit] Jainism in the Mughal period
Some Jain influence at the Mughal court of Akbar has been documented. Akbar honored Hiravijaya Suri, the leader of the Shvetambara Tapa Gachchha. Jain monks gained the respect of the Mughal emperors Jahangir [2]and Shah Jahan. Akbar banned animal slaughter near important Jain sites during the Paryushana festival. [3]
[edit] Jain-Muslim relations in modern India
Jains are a some of the noticeable non-Hindu supporter of Hindutva movement. The reasons are anti-Islamic world view as well as a cultural similarity between Hindus and Jains. Jains emphasis of nonviolence is very much in agreeable Islamic principles.
Author Sam Harris has compared the two religion. In an interview he states: "The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally."[4]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Maulana Hakim Saiyid Abdul Hai "Hindustan Islami Ahad Mein" (Hindustan under Islamic rule), Eng Trans by Maulana Abdul Hasan Nadwi
- ^ <Jahangir's Vow of Non-Violence, Ellison B. Findley, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 107, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1987), pp. 245-256
- ^ Akbar as Reflected in the Contemporary Jain Literature in Gujarat, Shirin Mehta, Social Scientist, Vol. 20, No. 9/10 (Sep. - Oct., 1992), pp. 54-60
- ^ Q & A with Sam Harris http://www.samharris.org/press/Q&A-with-Sam-Harris.pdf
