- Bib ID:
- 4941806
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- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010
- xxiv, 184 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Series:
- Oxford in India readings. Debates in Indian history and society.
- Summary:
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This volume brings together seminal essays on the perennial debate regarding the different roles Sufis played medieval Indian society and culture. It focuses on crucial issues such as Sufis' encounters or interactions in the Indian environment, episodic conversion, process of Islamicization, and expansion of Islam in India. --
The editor's introduction weaves together the varied strands of the debates on this subject and provides a framework for understanding the peculiarities of Sufism in India. --
Part or the prestigious Debates in Indian History and Society series, this reader will be valuable for scholars, teachers, and students or medieval Indian history, particularly those concerned with Sufi traditions and other forms of Islamic religiosity in medieval India. --Book Jacket.
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- Machine derived contents note: Introduction, Raziuddin Aquil;
- 1. 'Muslim Mystic Ideology and Contribution to Indian Culture', K.A. Nizami;
- 2. 'Sufism and Hindu Mysticism', Aziz Ahmad;
- 3. 'Islamic Proselytisation', S.A.A. Rizvi;
- 4. 'Sufi Folk Literature and the Expansion of Indian Islam', Richard M. Eaton;
- 5. 'The Indian Environment and the Question of Conversion', Carl W. Ernst;
- 6. 'The Indian Environment', Yohanan Friedmann;
- 7. 'Shah Waliullah and the Dargah', J.M.S Baljon;
- 8. 'The Sufi Shaikh as a Source of Authority in Medieval India', Simon Digby;
- 9. 'Assimilation from a Distance', Muzaffar Alam; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgements; Contributor's note.
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- Contributed articles; previously published.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Aquil, Raziuddin
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