Bách khoa toàn thư nền nông nghiệp thế giới - Vùng Nam Á - Vần N | 186 Muslim_ people of the Book and thus like Jews Christians and Zoroastrians as eligible for the status of protected unbelievers Muslim rulers and teachers propounded nothing in India that would have seemed out of place to the Sunni faithful in the Near East. Peter Hardy has succinctly summarized the ten fundamentals of Islamic belief as introduced to India 1. God is One without partners. 2. He is utterly transcendent possessing no form and escaping all definition. 3. He is the Almighty Creator. 4. He knows and ordains everything that is. 5. God is all-powerful and in whatever he ordains he cannot be unjust that is human concepts of justice and injustice cannot be applied to him . 6. The Quran is eternal. 7. Obedience to God is binding upon man because he so decreed it through his prophets. 8. Belief in the Prophet s divine mission is obligatory upon all. 9. Belief in the Day of Judgment is obligatory as revealed by the Prophet. 10. Belief in the excellence of the Prophet s companions and the first four caliphs is required by authentic tradition. See also Mappila Mogul Sayyid Sheikh Bibliography Ahmad Aziz ed. 1969 . An Intellectual History of Islam in India. Islamic Surveys no. 7. Edinburgh University Press. Ahmad Imtiaz ed. 1973 . Caste and Social Stratification among Muslims in India. New Delhi Manohar Publications. 2nd ed. 1978. Ahmad Imtiaz ed. 1981 . Ritual and Religion among Muslims in India. New Delhi Manohar Publications. Basham A. L. 1975 . A Cultural History of India. Oxford Clarendon Press. Eglar Zekiye 1960 . A Punjabi Village in Pakistan. New York and London Columbia University Press. Hardy Peter 1958 . Part Four Islam in Medieval India. In Sources of Indian Tradition edited by William de Bary et al. 367-528. New York and London Columbia University Press. Qadir Abdul 1937 . The Cultural Influences of Islam. In The Legacy of India edited by G. T. Garratt 287-304.
