Indian sufism since the seventeenth century saints, books, and empires in the Muslim Deccan

Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian s...

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Other Authors: Green, Nile, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge 2006.
2017.
Series:Routledge Sufi series ; v18.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433686506719
Table of Contents:
  • BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND NAMES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; MAP 1; 1. MUSLIM MYSTICS IN AN AGE OF EMPIRE: The Sufis of Awrangabad; 2. THE POETRY AND POLITICS OF SAINTHOOD IN A MUGHAL SUCCESSOR STATE; 3. THE SUFIS IN THE SHADOW OF A NEW EMPIRE; 4. SAINTS, REBELS AND REVIVALISTS; 5. THE AWRANGABAD SAINTS IN THE NEW INDIA; CONCLUSIONS; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX