South Asian sufis : devotion, deviation, and destiny

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South Asian sufis : devotion, deviation, and destiny

edited by Clinton Bennett and Charles M. Ramsey

Continuum, c2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-312) and index

Contents of Works

  • South Asian Sufis; continuity, complexity and change / Clinton Bennett
  • Iran's role in stimulating South Asian Islam / Clinton Bennett
  • A model of Sufi training in the 21st century: a case study of the Qaediriyya in Hyderabad / Mauro Valdinoci
  • Understanding the philosophy of spirituality at shrines in Pakistan / Hafeez-ur-Rehman Chaudhry
  • Spiritual power and "threshold" identities: the Mazars of Sayyid Pier Waris Shāh Abdul Laṭīf Bhitī / Uzma Rehman
  • Du'a: popular culture and powerful blessing at the 'Urs / Pnina Werbner
  • The Sufi centre of Jhok Sharif in Sindh (Pakistan): questioning the Ziyarat as a social process / Michel Boivin
  • When Sufi tradition reinvents Islamic modernity
  • the Minhāj-ul Qurʾān, a neo-Sufi order in Pakistan / Alix Philippon
  • Making the case for sainthood in modern Bangladesh: narrative strategies and the presentation of holiness in the life of Zia ul-Haqq Maizbhandari / Sarwar Alam
  • Ahmad Sirhindī: nationalist hero, good Sufi, or bad Sufi? / Arthur Buehler
  • Encountering the unholy: the establishment of political parties by Sufi masters in modern Bangladesh / Sarwar Alam
  • The transformation and development of South Asian Sufis in Britain / Ron Geaves
  • Rishwaer: Kashmir, the garden of the saints / Charles M. Ramsey
  • Bangladeshi Sufism; an interfaith bridge / Clinton Bennett
  • A garden amidst the flames: the categorical imperative of Sufi wisdom / Hugh van Skyhawk
  • South Asian Sufism in America / Marcia Hermansen
  • Sufis and social activism: a Chīshtī response to communal strife in India today / Kelly Pemberton
  • Conclusion: South Asian Sufis, devotion, deviation, and destiny / Charles M. Ramsey

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