Vol. 7, Issue 6, Part A (2021)

Abstract
The Kashmir Valley is considered to be the centre of Sufi traditions. The Sufi traditions, on the one hand, represent the success of Islam as well as creating a niche for itself, while on the other, the ritual components associated with these traditions are condemned as ‘puritanical’ examples of contemporary Islam. However, these become helpful for the scholars who analyse and identify various elements of the process through these rituals by which the people of the Valley accepted Islam.