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Sufism in the Hill Areas of Nepal Himalaya: The Inaudible Heartbeat of Religious Mysticism

JKKNIU Journal of Social Sciences April 20, 2026 M. Hossain

This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the presence and adaptation of Sufism in Nepal's hill regions, a context largely neglected in anthropological studies of South Asian Muslim communities. Existing scholarship has focused primarily on Muslims of the Terai plains, leaving the lived religious practices and cultural negotiations of Himalayan Muslim populations understudied....