Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm
Mysticism, History and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center
Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-566869-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Drawing on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in medieval Sufi shrines, Carl Ernst reveals the mystical teachings of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (c.1337) and his disciples. His study engages with key issues, such as the basis of Islamic political power in South Asia.FOREWORD; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Sifism PART I : HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ORIENTATION: SUFISM AND ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA; Historiographies of Islam in India; Religion and Empire in the Delhi Sultanate; 4. The Textual Formation of Oral Teachings in the Early Chishti Order; The Interpretation of the Sufi Biographical Tradition in India; FROM DELHI TO THE DECCAN; Burhan al-Din Gharib's Establishment and Teaching; The Indian Envronment and the Question of Conversion; POLITICAL RELATIONS OF THE KHULDABAD CHISHTIS; Political History of the Khuldabad Shrines; Khuladabad as a Sacred Center in the Local Context; PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
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- Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamische Gruppen: Sufis
- Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
- Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
