ISBN:
0-7914-0884-1
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXI, 381 Seiten
,
Karten, Illustrationen
Series Statement:
SUNY Series in Muslim Spirituality in South Asia
Keywords:
Indien Süd-Asien
;
Sufismus
;
Islam
;
Wallfahrt
;
Mystik
;
Geschichte
;
Khuldabad 〈Stadt, Indien〉
Abstract:
Ernst's research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major centre of pilgrimage in the Indian Deccan, reveals the mystical teachings and practices of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (d. 1337) and his disciples.
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 341-360
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