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Yep. There’s actually a name for that sect which synthesized between Vaishnava Hindus and Muslim Sufis, it’s the Bauls of Bangladesh, East Bengal and neighboring Indian states. Due to its origins in East Bengal, where Tantric Buddhism and Shaktism had strongholds, there’s also reputedly elements of those in the Bauls.

Muhammad as an Avatara, Vishnu and Shiva as Prophets and their followers as People of the Book.

> Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “O People of the Book! You have nothing to stand on unless you observe the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to you from your Lord.” And your Lord’s revelation to you ˹O Prophet˺ will only cause many of them to increase in wickedness and disbelief. So do not grieve for the people who disbelieve. [69] Indeed, the believers, Jews, Sabians and Christians—whoever ˹truly˺ believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good, there will be no fear for them, nor will they grieve.

There’s a strange beauty to liminal synthetic religions when it’s not just some shoddy thing a Western New Ager came up with but actually organically rose from geographical and cultural proximity.