the Kashmir commonly known as Kashmir and cashmere in the Asia and the western world. comprising the area of central Asia India Afghanistan Pakistan Tibet china . today it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administrated state of Jammu and Kashmir .

in the first half of the 1St millennium , the Kashmir region became the important center of Hinduism  and Buddhism but there is no such evidence in Neelmta Puran ; later still, in the ninth century . Kashmir Shaivism arose. Islamization in Kashmir took place during 13th to 15th century and led to the eventual decline of the Kashmir Shaivism in Kashmir . however , the achievements  of the previous civilization were not lost, but were to great extent absorbed by the new Islamic polity and culture which gave rise to modern Kashmir Sufi Mysticism. in 1339 , Shah Mir became  the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir , inaugurating the Salatin-I-Kashmir dynasty. for the next five centuries , Muslim monarchs ruled Kashmir , including the Mughals , who ruled from 1586 until 1751, and the Afghan Durrani  Empire ,which ruled from 1747 until 1819 .