The recently restored Pattar Masjid Srinagar, 1623 Built by Nur Jahan for Jahangir
William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill ) is apparently on vacation in Kashmir, and loading his Twitter account with gorgeous photos. Check them out.
Shah-e-Hamedan Srinagar From the Jhelum waterfront
Nishat Bagh Srinagar October light
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Kashmiri Muslims pray as an unseen custodian displays a holy relic, believed to be a hair from the Prophet Muhammad’s beard, at Kashmir’s main Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar on June 22, 2012, during the last Friday of celebrations for Miraj-Ul-Alam (Ascension to Heaven). (By Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images.)
Kashmiri residents helped firefighters extinguish the blaze at a Sufi shrine in Srinagar on Monday. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)
Protesters clashed with security forces in downtown Srinagar. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)
The cause of the fire at the shrine, which housed a relic of an 11th century Sufi saint, was not immediately known. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)
Residents pulled a water pipe to help battle the blaze. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)
“Police sealed off roads leading to the shrine where hundreds of men and women had gathered, many of them wailing and crying.
“I feel like I’ve lost everything,” cried a 45-year-old woman, Shameema Akhtar, tears rolling down her cheeks.
Muslim militants spearheading the anti-India campaign in Kashmir have in the past tried to enforce a radical form of Islam, banning beauty parlors, cinemas and liquor shops, as well as asking women to wear the veil.
But they have had little success in a region where people mostly follow Sufiism, a gentle, mystic tradition of Islam.”
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the years of strife in the region that both of the nuclear-armed rivals, India and Pakistan, claim. Pakistan controls part of Kashmir in the west.
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