02948nam 22006255 450 991040771280332120250609110104.09783030419912303041991610.1007/978-3-030-41991-2(CKB)5280000000218728(MiAaPQ)EBC6216600(DE-He213)978-3-030-41991-2(Perlego)3480811(MiAaPQ)EBC6216536(EXLCZ)99528000000021872820200601d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India The Case of Sindh (1851-1929) /by Michel Boivin1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) illustrations, maps9783030419905 3030419908 This book demonstrates how a local elite built upon colonial knowledge to produce a vernacular knowledge that maintained the older legacy of a pluralistic Sufism. As the British reprinted a Sufi work, Shah Abd al-Latif Bhittai's Shah jo risalo, in an effort to teach British officers Sindhi, the local intelligentsia, particularly driven by a Hindu caste of professional scribes (the Amils), seized on the moment to promote a transformation from traditional and popular Sufism (the tasawuf) to a Sufi culture (Sufiyani saqafat). Using modern tools, such as the printing press, and borrowing European vocabulary and ideology, such as Theosophical Society, the intelligentsia used Sufism as an idiomatic matrix that functioned to incorporate difference and a multitude of devotional traditions-Sufi, non-Sufi, and non-Muslim-into a complex, metaphysical spirituality that transcended the nation-state and filled the intellectual, spiritual, and emotionalvoids of postmodernity.EthnologyKnowledge, Theory ofAsiaHistoryReligion and sociologySociocultural AnthropologyEpistemologyHistory of South AsiaSociology of ReligionEthnology.Knowledge, Theory of.AsiaHistory.Religion and sociology.Sociocultural Anthropology.Epistemology.History of South Asia.Sociology of Religion.915.49180331300Boivin Michelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut871315MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910407712803321The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India1945085UNINA