South Asian Sufis

Author : Clinton Bennett,Charles M. Ramsey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441135896

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South Asian Sufis by Clinton Bennett,Charles M. Ramsey Pdf

Often described as the soul of Islam, Sufism is one of the most interesting yet least known facet of this global religion. Sufism is the softer more inclusive and mystical form of Islam. Although militant Islamists dominate the headlines, the Sufi ideal has captured the imagination of many. Nowhere in the world is the handprint of Sufism more observable than South Asia, which has the largest Muslim population of the world, but also the greatest concentration of Sufis. This book examines active Sufi communities in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh that shed light on the devotion, and deviation, and destiny of Sufism in South Asia. Drawn from extensive work by indigenous and international scholars, this ethnographical study explores the impact of Iran on the development of Sufi thought and practice further east, and also discusses Sufism in diaspora in such contexts as the UK and North America and Iran's influence on South Asian Sufism.

Author : Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Katherine Pratt Ewing,Rosemary R. Corbett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Tahera Aftab
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004467187

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Sufi Women of South Asia by Tahera Aftab Pdf

In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, Tahera Aftab, drawing upon various sources, offers the first unique and comprehensive account of South Asian Sufi women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century.

Author : Riazul Islam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Michel Boivin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Clinton Bennett,Charles M. Ramsey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441151278

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South Asian Sufis by Clinton Bennett,Charles M. Ramsey Pdf

In-depth ethnographical study of contemporary Sufi orders in Iran, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, as well as in the UK and US.

Author : Adil Hussain Khan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253015297

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From Sufism to Ahmadiyya by Adil Hussain Khan Pdf

The Ahmadiyya Muslim community represents the followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), a charismatic leader whose claims of spiritual authority brought him into conflict with most other Muslim leaders of the time. The controversial movement originated in rural India in the latter part of the 19th century and is best known for challenging current conceptions of Islamic orthodoxy. Despite missionary success and expansion throughout the world, particularly in Western Europe, North America, and parts of Africa, Ahmadis have effectively been banned from Pakistan. Adil Hussain Khan traces the origins of Ahmadi Islam from a small Sufi-style brotherhood to a major transnational organization, which many Muslims believe to be beyond the pale of Islam.

Author : N. Hanif
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8176250872

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Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis by N. Hanif Pdf

Author : Samina Quraeshi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780873658591

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Sacred Spaces by Samina Quraeshi Pdf

Quraeshi provides a vision of Islam in South Asia enriched by art and by a female perspective on the diversity of Islamic expressions of faith. An account of a journey through the author’s childhood homeland, the book reveals the deeply spiritual nature of major centers of Sufism in the central and northwestern heartlands of South Asia.

Author : Saadia Sumbal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000415049

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Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan by Saadia Sumbal Pdf

This book examines the history of, and the contestations on, Islam and the nature of religious change in 20th century Pakistan, focusing in particular on movements of Islamic reform and revival. This book is the first to bring the different facets of Islam, particularly Islamic reformism and shrine-oriented traditions, together within the confines of a single study ranging from the colonial to post-colonial era. Using a rich corpus of Urdu and Arabic material including biographical accounts, Sufi discourses (malfuzat), letter collections, polemics and unexplored archival sources, the author investigates how Islamic reformism and shrine-oriented religiosity interacted with one another in the post-colonial state of Pakistan. Focusing on the district of Mianwali in Pakistani northwestern Punjab, the book demonstrates how reformist ideas could only effectively find space to permeate after accommodating Sufi thoughts and practices; the text-based religious identity coalesced with overlapped traditional religious rituals and practices. The book proceeds to show how reformist Islam became the principal determinant of Islamic identity in the post-colonial state of Pakistan and how one of its defining effects was the hardening of religious boundaries. Challenging the approach of viewing the contestation between reformist and shrine-oriented Islam through the lens of binaries modern/traditional and moderate/extremist, this book makes an important contribution to the field of South Asian religion and Islam in modern South Asia.

Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674039070

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Partisans of Allah by Ayesha Jalal Pdf

Today, more than ever, jihad signifies the political opposition between Islam and the West. As the line drawn between Muslims and non-Muslims becomes more rigid, Jalal seeks to retrieve the ethical meanings of this core Islamic principle in South Asian history. Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia.

Author : Muzaffar Alam
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438484907

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The Mughals and the Sufis by Muzaffar Alam Pdf

Based on a critical study of a large number of contemporary Persian texts, court chronicles, epistolary collections, and biographies of sufi mystics, The Mughals and the Sufis examines the complexities in the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality. Muzaffar Alam analyses the interplay of these elements, their negotiation and struggle for resolution via conflict and coordination, and their longer-term outcomes as the empire followed its own political and cultural trajectory as it shifted from the more liberal outlook of Emperor Akbar "The Great" (r. 1556–1605) to the more rigid attitudes of his great-grandson, Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (r. 1658–1701). Alam brings to light many new and underutilized sources relevant to the religious and cultural history of the Mughals and reinterprets well-known sources from a new perspective to provide one of the most detailed and nuanced portraits of Indian Islam under the Mughal Empire available today.

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : C. Ernst,B. Lawrence
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137095817

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Sufi Martyrs of Love by C. Ernst,B. Lawrence Pdf

Sufism is a religion which emphasizes direct knowledge of the divine within each person, and meditation, music, song, and dance are seen as crucial spiritual strides toward attaining unity with God. Sufi paths of mysticism and devotion, motivated by Islamic ideals, are still chosen by men and women in countries from Morocco to China, and there are nearly one hundred orders around the world, eighty of which are present and thriving in the United States. The Chishti Sufi order has been the most widespread and popular of all Sufi traditions since the twelfth-century. Sufi Martyrs of Love offers a critical perspective on Western attitudes towards Islam and Sufism, clarifying its contemporary importance, both in the West and in traditional Sufi homelands. Finally, it provides access to the voices of Sufi authorities, through the translation of texts being offered in English for the first time.