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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765844603321

Autore

Green Nile

Titolo

Indian sufism since the seventeenth century : saints, books, and empires in the Muslim Deccan / / Nile Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2006

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2006

ISBN

9786610552801

9781134168248

1134168241

9781134168255

113416825X

9781280552809

1280552808

9780203965368

0203965361

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Routledge Sufi series ; ; v18

Classificazione

11.83

EV 450

Disciplina

297.40954

Soggetti

Sufism - India - Deccan - History

Sufism - India - Hyderabad - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND NAMES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; MAP 1; 1. MUSLIM MYSTICS IN AN AGE OF EMPIRE: The Sufis of Awrangabad; 2. THE POETRY AND POLITICS OF SAINTHOOD IN A MUGHAL SUCCESSOR STATE; 3. THE SUFIS IN THE SHADOW OF A NEW EMPIRE; 4. SAINTS, REBELS AND REVIVALISTS; 5. THE AWRANGABAD SAINTS IN THE NEW INDIA; CONCLUSIONS; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider



cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes. Placing the mystical traditions of Indian Islam within their cultural contexts, this interesting study focuses on the shrines of four Sufi saints in the neglected Deccan region and their changing roles under the rule