Sufism and society in medieval India
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Sufism and society in medieval India
(Oxford in India readings, . Debates in Indian history and society)
Oxford University Press, 2010
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Gifu
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Contributed articles; previously published
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume brings together seminal essays on the perennial debate regarding the role of Sufis in Indian history and society. The reader focuses on crucial issues like the Sufis' encounters or interactions in Indian environment, episodic conversion, process of Islamicization, and expansion of Islam in India. The essays provide counterpoints on the major debate about the political intervention of Sufis and their interaction with the rulers and state. The introduction weaves together the varied strands of the debates on this subject and makes a defining statement on understanding the peculiarities of Sufism in India. The volume has well known contributors- K.A. Nizami, Aziz Ahmad, S.A.A. Rizvi, Richard M. Eaton, Carl W. Ernst, Yohanan Friedmann, Simon Digby, and Muzaffar Alam. The editor's introduction deals with the debates and the historiography while posing new questions and providing new dimensions to the study of Sufism in India. The selection has essays from very prominent social historians like K.A. Nizami, Aziz Ahmad, S.A.A. Rizvi, Richard M. Eaton, Carl W. Ernst, Yohanan Friedmann, Simon Digby, and Muzaffar Alam.
This book forms the eleventh volume of the prestigious Debates in Indian History and Society series. The debates and themes volumes in general have been very popular among the students and teachers and are being used as teaching tools for undergraduate and post-graduate courses in history at many universities.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION, RAZIUDDIN AQUIL
- 1. 'Muslim Mystic Ideology and Contribution to Indian Culture', K.A. Nizami
- 2. 'Sufism and Hindu Mysticism', Aziz Ahmad
- 3. 'Islamic Proselytisation', S.A.A. Rizvi
- 4. 'Sufi Folk Literature and the Expansion of Indian Islam', Richard M. Eaton
- 5. 'The Indian Environment and the Question of Conversion', Carl W. Ernst
- 6. 'The Indian Environment', Yohanan Friedmann
- 7. 'Shah Waliullah and the Dargah', J.M.S Baljon
- 8. 'The Sufi Shaikh as a Source of Authority in Medieval India', Simon Digby
- 9. 'Assimilation from a Distance', Muzaffar Alam
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Contributor's note
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