Keywords
Folk Culture
Communal Harmony
Folk Songs and Sufism
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Abstract
General understanding of Islam as a religion does not consist of many diversities and identities as in the other major religions
viz. Christianity and Hinduism. In both of the later, it is believed to be having diversities and denominations, such as in Christianity.
Hinduism also has many. In this article, we highlight the fact that Islam has also multiple identities which are region wise, content wise
and in ritual and practices wise. To mention briefly, you have one sect following, aggressive K and non-human and extremist methodology, which is terrorism, on the other hand, there is a sect called Sufism, whose principles are non-violence, commitment to art, music, gender sensitivities and sympathy and empathy for the welfare of the poor and deprived.
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