Bangali Musalmaner Pratyushkal by Dr. Muhammad Hannan [Hardcover]

The history of the spread of Islam in this region and the origin of Bengali Muslims has been passed down for over a thousand years. The long-anticipated question has been: when did Arab Muslims first arrive in Bengal to begin spreading Islam, and who were the ancestors of today's Bengalis that embraced the faith and, through it, claimed a new identity as Bengali Muslims in both society and the state? Dr. Mohammad Hannan revisits that ancient history, putting it to the test of evidence and analysis, and presents it to the Bengali readership through a new perspective. There was a time when Muslims of this land were not even considered truly Bengali. Yet, even after the partition of the subcontinent along religious lines, the people of what was then East Pakistan made it clear—they were not only Bengalis in truth, but just as equally, Bengali Muslims.