Re Centering The Sufi Shrine

Author : Irfan Moeen Khan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110781496

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Re-centering the Sufi Shrine by Irfan Moeen Khan Pdf

Recentering the Sufi Shrine is a study of ritual, Sufi eschatology, and vernacular theopoetics of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus region of Pakistan. The book examines the distinction between two different ritual contestations over pilgrimage to Sufi tombs: (1) an exposition of Ṭariqa-i Muhammadiyya’s millenarian Scripturalist reform of Sufism, and (2) Bulleh Shah’s (d. 1767) vernacular Sufism, a hard-hitting Sufi-poet of textual ("bookish") knowledge of religious scholars. This is the first work examining the legal theology of ritual intervention in using scripture to regulate the resurrected bodies of saints, on the one hand, and the ritual metaphysics of presence in understanding the significance and meaning of Sufi shrines, on the other.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190874988

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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space by Anonim Pdf

"How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors addressing these questions, using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, gender and women's studies, geography, and political science, resulting in a distinctly interdisciplinary collection. These essays are snapshots, each offering a specific way to think about the religious space(s) under consideration: Roman shrines, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, Muslim and Catholic shrines, indigenous spaces in Central America and East Africa, cemeteries, memorials, and others. They are organized here by geographical region rather than tradition, to emphasized the cultural roots of religion and religious spaces. Several overarching principles emerge from these snapshots. The authors demonstrate that religious spaces are simultaneously individual and collective, personal, and social; that they are influenced by culture, tradition, and immediate circumstances; and that they participate in various relationships of power. Most importantly, these essays demonstrate that religious spaces do not simply provide a convenient background for religious action but are also constituent of religious meaning and religious experience, that is, they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meaning, experience"--

Author : Umber Bin Ibad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Pakistan
ISBN : 1788318897

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Sufi Shrines and the Pakistani State by Umber Bin Ibad Pdf

"After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Sufi shrines became highly contested. Considered deviant and 'un-Islamic', they soon fell under government control as part of a state-led strategy to create an 'official', more unified, Islamic identity. This book, the first to address the political history of Sufi shrines in Pakistan, explores the various ways in which the postcolonial state went about controlling their activities. Of key significance, Umber Bin Ibad shows, was the 'West Pakistan Waqf Properties Ordinance', a governmental decree issued in 1959. Formed when General Ayub Khan assumed the role of Chief Martial Law Administrator, this allowed the state to take over shrines as 'waqf property'. According to Islamic law, a waqf, or charitable endowment, had to be used for charitable or religious purposes and the state created a separate Auqaf department to control the finances and activities of all the shrines which were now under a state sponsored waqf system. Focusing on the Punjab - famous for its large number of shrines - the book is based on extensive primary research including newspapers, archival sources, interviews, court records and the official reports of the Auqaf department. At a time when Sufi shrines are being increasingly targeted by Islamist extremists, who view Sufism as heretical, this book sheds light on the shrines' contentious historical relationship with the state. An original contribution to South Asian Studies, the book will also be relevant to scholars of Colonial and Post-Colonial History and Sufism Studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : A. Azfar Moin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231160360

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The Millennial Sovereign by A. Azfar Moin Pdf

"This book brings into dialogue two major fields of scholarship that are rarely studied together: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam. In doing so, it offers an original perspective on both. In historical terms, the foucs here is on the Mughal empire in sixteenth-century India and its antecedents and parallels in Timurid Central Asia and Safavid Iran."--Introduction, p. [1].

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Asia
ISBN : UCAL:B4928486

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The Journal of Asian Studies by Anonim Pdf

An essential resource for those interested in Asia. Recognized as the leading publication in its field. It features articles on the history, arts, social sciences, and contemporary issues of East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as a large book review section.

Author : Shivan Mahendrarajah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108813577

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The Sufi Saint of Jam by Shivan Mahendrarajah Pdf

The Sunni saint cult and shrine of Ahmad-i Jam has endured for 900 years. The shrine and its Sufi shaykhs secured patronage from Mongols, Kartids, Tamerlane, and Timurids. The cult and shrine-complex started sliding into decline when Iran's shahs took the Shiʿi path in 1501, but are today enjoying a renaissance under the (Shiʿi) Islamic Republic of Iran. The shrine's eclectic architectural ensemble has been renovated with private and public funds, and expertise from Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization. Two seminaries (madrasa) that teach Sunni curricula to males and females were added. Sunni and Shiʿi pilgrims visit to venerate their saint. Jami mystics still practice ʿirfan ('gnosticism'). Analyzed are Ahmad-i Jam's biography and hagiography; marketing to sultans of Ahmad as the 'Guardian of Kings'; history and politics of the shrine's catchment area; acquisition of patronage by shrine and shaykhs; Sufi doctrines and practices of Jami mystics, including its Timurid-era Naqshbandi Sufis.

Author : Robert Thomas Rozehnal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89054470299

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The Shrine and Cult of Shaykh Nizam Al-Din Awliya by Robert Thomas Rozehnal Pdf

Author : Jonas Atlas
Publisher : Yunus Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Re-visioning Sufism by Jonas Atlas Pdf

Sufism is often described as ‘the mystical branch of Islam’. Giving some more attention to this underexposed spiritual side, it is often proposed, could help us to ease certain contemporary societal tensions. One finger then points toward the rigorous religious aggression of fundamentalism as ‘the problem’, while another points toward the soft beauty of mysticism as ‘the solution’. Yet, no matter how well-intended the contemporary focus on Sufism might often be, in the end, it repeatedly portrays a lack of comprehension when it comes to Islamic mysticism. The typical descriptions are full of mistakes, and the conclusions they lead to need much nuance. Those misunderstandings do not simply stem from innocent ignorance. They are misunderstandings with more profound origins and implications. They’re closely tied to enormous blind spots in the contemporary view of religion and deeply entwined with pressing political issues. In fact, the way we deal with mysticism in general and with Sufism in particular actually kindles many contemporary conflicts. This book thus seeks to add the necessary nuances, correct the misunderstandings and unveil the contemporary ‘politics of mysticism’. It seeks to clarify how the growing interest in what is called ‘Sufism’ is connected to both the contemporary demonization of Islam and the modern destruction of profound spirituality in the East as well as the West.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Islam
ISBN : UOM:39076001555189

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World: Sata-Zurk by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michel Boivin,Remy Delage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Jürgen Wasim Frembgen
Publisher : OUP Pakistan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199063079

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At the Shrine of the Red Sufi by Jürgen Wasim Frembgen Pdf

The annual festival celebrated in honour of Pakistan's most popular Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar is full of spiritual rapture, ecstasy, trance, magic and devotion. In his vividly written narrative the renowned anthropologist and Islamologist, Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, takes the reader along with him to experience this unique ritual event and spectacle with all the senses. Stefan Weidner, a renowned writer and expert on Islam, has judged this book [German language version] as "one of the most exciting reports we owe to German cultural anthropology in recent decades".

Author : Jonathan Bloom,Sheila Blair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080838819

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Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set by Jonathan Bloom,Sheila Blair Pdf

The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq are elucidated here by distinguished scholars. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. In addition, over 500 illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world. With the fundamental understanding that Islamic art is not limited to a particular region, or to a defined period of time, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture offers pathways into Islamic culture through its art.

Author : Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UCBK:C094006594

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Intersections by Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies Pdf

Author : Riazul Islam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015056654794

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Sufism in South Asia by Riazul Islam Pdf

The Book Traces The Rise And Evolution Of Sufism In The Early Centuries And Concentrates On Its Impact On Muslim Society In 14Th Century India. It Presents Both Sides Of The Sufi Picture - Its Singular Achievement In Strengthning Moral Fibre, And Its Ruinous Influence In Cultivating Credulousness And Superstition.

Author : Pamela Ryden Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Sufism
ISBN : UCAL:C2939463

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A Sufi Shrine in Modern Tunisia by Pamela Ryden Johnson Pdf