Muslim Saints Of South Asia

Author : Anna Suvorova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134370054

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Muslim Saints of South Asia by Anna Suvorova Pdf

This book studies the veneration practices and rituals of the Muslim saints. It outlines principal trends of the main Sufi orders in India, the profiles and teachings of the famous and less known saints, and the development of pilgrimage to their tombs in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A detailed discussion of the interaction of the Hindu mystic tradition and Sufism shows the polarity between the rigidity of the orthodox and the flexibility of the popular Islam in South Asia.

Author : Anna Aronovna Suvorova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0203354222

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Muslim Saints of South Asia by Anna Aronovna Suvorova Pdf

This book studies the veneration practices and rituals of the Muslim saints. It outlines trends of the main Sufi orders in India, the profiles and teachings of the famous and less known saints, and the development of pilgrimages.

Author : Muhammad Ismail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Islam
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215179909

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Hagiology of Sufi Saints and the Spread of Islam in South Asia by Muhammad Ismail Pdf

Author : Amit Dey
Publisher : Parul Prakashani Private Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9789385555671

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Islam in South Asia: by Amit Dey Pdf

Scholarly, insightful and, at the same time, written in an exceptionally lucid style, this book challenges certain stereotypes relating to Islam, Sufism, folk songs and inter community relations in the South Asian context. By consulting Persian, Urdu, Bengali and English sources, this book suggests that Sufism is more heterogeneous and complex than what is commonly taken to be.

Author : Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317435952

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Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia by Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher Pdf

This book looks at the study of ideas, practices and institutions in South Asian Islam, commonly identified as ‘Sufism’, and how they relate to politics in South Asia. While the importance of Sufism for the lives of South Asian Muslims has been repeatedly asserted, the specific role played by Sufism in contestations over social and political belonging in South Asia has not yet been fully analysed. Looking at examples from five countries in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan), the book begins with a detailed introduction to political concerns over ‘belonging’ in relation to questions concerning Sufism and Islam in South Asia. This is followed with sections on Producing and Identifying Sufism; Everyday and Public Forms of Belonging; Sufi Belonging, Local and National; and Intellectual History and Narratives of Belonging. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the book explores the connection of Islam, Sufism and the Politics of Belonging in South Asia. It is an important contribution to South Asian Studies, Islamic Studies and South Asian Religion.

Author : Michel Boivin,Remy Delage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317379997

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Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia by Michel Boivin,Remy Delage Pdf

The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint – often a Sufi - is buried, and it works as a main social factor, with the power of integrating or rejecting people and groups, and as a mirror reflecting the intricacies of a society. The book discusses the role of popular Islam in structuring individual and collective identities in contemporary South Asia. It identifies similarities and differences between the worship of saints and the pattern of religious attendance to tombs and mausoleums in South Asian Sufism and Shi`ism. Inspired by new advances in the field of ritual and pilgrimage studies, the book demonstrates that religious gatherings are spaces of negotiation and redefinitions of religious identity and of the notion of sainthood. Drawing from a large corpus of vernacular and colonial sources, as well as the register of popular literature and ethnographic observation, the authors describe how religious identities are co-constructed through the management of rituals, and are constantly renegotiated through discourses and religious practices. By enabling students, researchers and academics to critically understand the complexity of religious places within the world of popular and devotional Islam, this geographical re-mapping of Muslim religious gatherings in contemporary South Asia contributes to a new understanding of South Asian and Islamic Studies.

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134168255

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Indian Sufism Since the Seventeenth Century by Nile Green Pdf

Nile Green reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.

Author : Sarah F. D. Ansari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521405300

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Sufi Saints and State Power by Sarah F. D. Ansari Pdf

In this book, Dr Sarah Ansari examines the system of political control constructed by the British in Sind between 1843 and 1947. In particular, she explores the part of the local Muslim elite, the pirs or hereditary sufi saints. Using a wealth of historical material and in depth interviews, the author looks at the development of the institution of the pir, its power base and the mechanics of the system of control into which the pirs were drawn. The overall success of the political system depended on the willingness of the elite to participate and Dr Ansari argues that it did indeed work in Sind. This enabled the British to govern while allowing the pirs to adapt to colonial rule, and later independence, without serious damage to their interests. The author demonstrates that only in the heightened nationalist atmosphere of the 1940s did the system break down.

Author : Scott Kugle
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807872772

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Sufis and Saints' Bodies by Scott Kugle Pdf

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power. Sufis and Saints' Bodies focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia. Kugle singles out a specific part of the body to which each saint is frequently associated in religious literature. The saints' bodies, Kugle argues, are treated as symbolic resources for generating religious meaning, communal solidarity, and the experience of sacred power. In each chapter, Kugle also features a particular theoretical problem, drawing methodologically from religious studies, anthropology, studies of gender and sexuality, theology, feminism, and philosophy. Bringing a new perspective to Islamic studies, Kugle shows how an important Islamic tradition integrated myriad understandings of the body in its nurturing role in the material, social, and spiritual realms.

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134168248

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Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century by Nile Green Pdf

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 society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes. Placing the mystical traditions of Indian Islam within their cultural contexts, this interesting study focuses on the shrines of four Sufi saints in the neglected Deccan region and their changing roles under the rule of the Mughals, the Nizams of Haydarabad and, after 1948, the Indian nation. In particular Green studies the city of Awrangabad, examining the vibrant intellectual and cultural history of this city as part of the independent state of Haydarabad. He employs a combination of historical texts and anthropological fieldwork, which provide a fresh perspective on developments of devotional Islam in South Asia over the past three centuries, giving a fuller understanding of Sufism and Muslim saints in South Asia.

Author : Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400831388

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Islam in South Asia in Practice by Barbara D. Metcalf Pdf

This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters to a discussion among college women affiliated with an "Islamist" organization. Drawn from premodern texts, modern pamphlets, government and organizational archives, new media, and contemporary fieldwork, the selections reflect the rich diversity of Islamic belief and practice in South Asia. Each reading is introduced with a brief contextual note from its scholar-translator, and Barbara Metcalf introduces the whole volume with a substantial historical overview.

Author : Katherine Pratt Ewing,Rosemary R. Corbett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231551465

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Modern Sufis and the State by Katherine Pratt Ewing,Rosemary R. Corbett Pdf

Sufism is typically thought of as the mystical side of Islam. In recent years, it has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to the spread of forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of democratic ideals of tolerance and pluralism. Are Sufis in fact as otherworldy and apolitical as this stereotype suggests? Modern Sufis and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions that are made about Sufism today. Focusing on India and Pakistan within a broader global context, this book provides locally grounded accounts of how Sufis in South Asia have engaged in politics from the colonial period to the present. Contributors foreground the effects and unintended consequences of efforts to link Sufism with the spread of democracy and consider what roles scholars and governments have played in the making of twenty-first-century Sufism. They critique the belief that Salafism and Sufism are antithetical, offering nuanced analyses of the diversity, multivalence, and local embeddedness of Sufi political engagements and self-representations in Pakistan and India. Essays question the portrayal of Sufi shrines as sites of toleration, peace, and harmony, exploring cases of tension and conflict. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection, Modern Sufis and the State is a timely call to think critically about the role of public discourse in shaping perceptions of Sufism.

Author : Michel Boivin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788315319

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The Hindu Sufis of South Asia by Michel Boivin Pdf

Within the complex religious landscape of modern India, the community of Sindh stands out as a powerful example of interfaith relations. This Hindu community moved to India and practiced Sufism following Sindh's inclusion to Pakistan in the 1947 partition. Drawing on a close analysis of literature and poetry, interviews with key informants, and a reading of historic rituals and architectures, Michel Boivin demonstrates that this active religious minority has managed to retain its unique Hindu-Sufi identity amidst the rigidification of official religions in both India and Pakistan. Of particular significance, Boivin argues, was the creation of sacred spaces called darbars. These shrines include a religious building where the Hindu Sindhis worship Sufi saints, chant Sufi poetry and perform Sufi rituals. In looking at this vibrant community as a trans-religious culture capable of navigating the challenges of the modern nation state, this book is an important contribution to understanding the Muslim-Hindu encounter in India.

Author : N. Hanif
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8176250872

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Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis by N. Hanif Pdf

Author : Hans Harder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781136831898

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Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh by Hans Harder Pdf

Focusing on the Maijbhandari movement in Chittagong, south-eastern Bangladesh, which claims the status of the only Sufi order originated in Bengal and which has gained immense popularity in recent years, this book provides a comprehensive picture of an important aspect of contemporary Bengali Islam in the South Asian context. Expertise in South Asian languages and literatures is combined with ethnographic field work and theoretical formulations from a range of disciplines, including cultural anthropology, Islamic studies and religious studies. Analysing the Maijbhandaris tradition of Bengali spiritual songs, one of the largest popular song traditions in Bengal, the book presents an in-depth study of Bengali Sufi theology, hagiography and Maijbhandari esoteric songs, as well as a discussion of what Bengali Islam is. It is a useful contribution to South Asia Studies, as well as Islamic Studies.