I was surfing the web for some articles and came across
this one.
Based upon the source publishing it, I would take things with grains of salt. However, it is a long and interesting take on the history of Islam focusing on the Sufi movement's evolution and conflict within Islam itself. No bibliography provided to see all the source material.
I have found some inconsistencies in the article like the following:
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Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti (1142-1236), founder of the Chishti Order, was a Persian from Khorasan, but settled among the Hindus of Rajasthan. His followers adopted the saffron color of the robes of the Hindu sages for their own coarse robes, and generally interchanged ideas and rituals with and even adopted the habits of the Hindu sadhus (mendicants). Like the sages of the Upanishads, he preached under a tree. He consciously spurned Delhi, seat of the Moghul court, for provincial Rajasthan.
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Delhi was under the rule of Muslim Sultans, however, the Mughals (Moghals) hadn't entered the picture in the years Chishti lived. It was the
Slave dynasty started by Qutubudin Aybak that ruled in his later years.
Since it is a long article, fact checking it would take quite a bit of time. But the central theme of conflict within Islam and its different branches evolving through history (Fall of the Caliphate, Turk, Persian, Mughal rule, Colonialism, and modern day middle eastern socialist regime and fundamentalist regimes) is interesting.