Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Sufis started their mission in India long before the establishment of Muslim political authority. Their policy of Sulh-e-kul and simple and pious ways attracted a number of people to Islam. Malik Dinar, who had been responsible for the spread of Islam in Malabar, was himself a disciple of Hasan al Basri, the famous mystic of Iraq. India News | Indian Sufism , an Ideal of Reformation and Assimilation.
Sufism as a moral and spiritual way of life with its universal appeal of love and humanism found an exceptionally congenial ground for its growth and spread in India from the earliest phases of its history