Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Craig Baxter, Bangladesh: From a 

Nation to a State (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 

1997); Richard M. Eaton, “Who Are the Bengal Mus-

lims? Conversion and Islamization in Bengal.” In 

Understanding the Bengal Muslims: Interpretative Essays,

edited by Rafiuddin Ahmed, 25–51 (Oxford and Delhi: 

Oxford University Press, 2001); Asim Roy, The Islamic 

Syncretistic Tradition in Bengal (Princeton, N.J.: Prince-

ton University Press, 1983); Tony K. Stewart, “Satya Pir: 

Muslim Holy Man and Hindu God.” In Religions of India 

in Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr., 578–597 

(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995).