Note: Introduction: A historical overview of Islam in South Asia , Guidance, sharia, and law. Ibn Battuta as a Qadi in the Maldives , Devotion and praise : to Allah, Muhammad, imams, and elders. Satpanthi Ismaili songs to Hazrat Ali and the imams , The soul's quest in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's Hindavi romance , Pilgrimage to the shrines in Ajmer , Women's grinding and spinning songs of devotion in the late medieval deccan , Qawwali songs of praise , Na't : media contexts and transnational dimensions of a devotional practice , Shi'i mourning in Muhurram : Nauha laments for children killed at Karbala , Islam and the devotional image in Pakistan , Holy and exemplary lives. Ibn Battuta meets Shah Jalal al-Din Tabrize in Bengal , Narratives of the life of Haider Shaykh in Punjab , The daily life of a saint, Ahmad Sirhindi, by Badr al-Din Sirhindi , Sufi ritual practice among the Barkatiyya Sayyids of U.P. : Nuri Miyan's life and 'Urs, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries , Transgressions of a holy fool : a majzub in colonial India , The transmission of learning. Saving Tamil Muslims from the torments of hell : Vannapparimalappulavar's book of one thousand questions , The Taqwiyyat al-Iman (support of the faith) by Shah Isma'il Shahid , The brilliance of hearts : Hajji Imdadullah teaches meditation and ritual , Studying hadith in a Madrasa in the early twentieth century , Jihad in the way of God : a Tablighi Jama'at account of a mission in India , A college girl gives a Qur'an lesson in Bangladesh , Guiding the ruler and prince , A colonial court defines a Muslim , Maulana Thanawi's fatwa on the limits of parental rights over children , Shari'at governance in colonial and postcolonial India , Two Sufis on molding the new Muslim woman : Khwaja Hasan Nizami (1878-1955) and Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) , Fatwa advice on proper Muslim names , A rallying cry for Muslim personal law : the Shah Bano case and its aftermath , Belonging. Forest clearing and the growth of Islam in Bengal , Challenging the Mughal emporer : the Islamic millennium according to 'Abd al-Qadir Badayuni , Custom and conversion in Malabar : Zayn al-Din al-Malibari's Gift of the Mujahidin : some accounts of the Portuguese , Muslim league appeals to the voters of Punjab for support of Pakistan , Advocating a secular Pakistan : the Munir report of 1954 , Maulana Yusuf Ludhianvi on the limits of legitimate religious differences , The Indian Jama'at-i Islami reconsiders secular democracy