Dabistān-i madhāhib - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Moin, A. Azfar
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Leiden
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Brill
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(827 words)
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The Dabistān-i madhāhib ("School of religions") is an encyclopaedic work in Persian, which was composed anonymously in mid-eleventh/seventeenth-century India. It describes and classifies various world religions-Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity-and several related sects and esoteric groups active in early modern India, Iran, and Central Asia. Combining extensive textual knowledge, oral reports, and personal observations of the author, the Dabistān opens a unique window on the religious climate of the time. Scholars have debated the author's identity since the 1780s, when