Alam The Mughals and the Sufis

Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500–1750
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8490-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alam, Muzaffar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: A Long View of Sufism and Political Culture in India

2. The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs, and the Formation of the Akbari Dispensation

3. A Sufi Critique of Religious Law, Tasawwuf, and Politics in Mughal India

4. Shah Madar, Sufi Religion, and a View of "True Islam" in a Mughal Chishti Tazkira

5. Strategy and Imagination in a Mughal Sufi Story of Creation

6. In Search of a Sacred King: Dara Shukoh and the Yogavasisthas of Mughal India

7. Piety, Poetry, and the Contested Loyalties of Mughal Princesses, c. 1635–1700

8. The Naqshbandi Shaikhs of Sirhind in Aurangzeb's Empire and Its Aftermath

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Muzaffar Alam is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including, The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200–1800 and The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab, 1707–1748.