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Jainism and Islam came in close contact with
each other following the Islamic Conquest from Central Asia and Persia in the seventh to the
twelfth centuries when much of north and central India came under the rule of the
The Miyana Rajputs, many of whom were Jains (as per their last name) embraced Islam at the time of Allauddin Khilji (Kumar Suresh Singh, Rajendra Behari Lal, Anthropological Survey of India, P. 9390, Gujarat).
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