Islam in Kashmir

Islam is the major religion practiced in Kashmir, with 97.16% of the region's population identifying as Muslims, as of 2014. Islam came to the region with the influx of Muslim Sufis preachers from Central Asia and Persia, beginning in the early 14th century.

Quotes

• If woman can make the worst wilderness dear,
  Think, think what a Heaven she must make of Cashmere!
  So felt the magnificent Son of Acbar,
  When from power and pomp and the trophies of war
  He flew to that Valley forgetting them all
  With the Light of the Haram, his young Nourmahal.
  • Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh (London: Longman & Co., 1817)