Indian Sufism Since the Seventeenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Sufism Since the Seventeenth Century write by Nile Green. This book was released on 2006-09-27. Indian Sufism Since the Seventeenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nile Green 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.
Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century write by Nile Green. This book was released on 2006-09-27. Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 of the Mughals, the Nizams of Haydarabad and, after 1948, the Indian nation. In particular Green studies the city of Awrangabad, examining the vibrant intellectual and cultural history of this city as part of the independent state of Haydarabad. He employs a combination of historical texts and anthropological fieldwork, which provide a fresh perspective on developments of devotional Islam in South Asia over the past three centuries, giving a fuller understanding of Sufism and Muslim saints in South Asia.
Sufi Movement and Sufi Literature in India in the Seventeenth Century
Sufi Movement and Sufi Literature in India in the Seventeenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sufi Movement and Sufi Literature in India in the Seventeenth Century write by Muhammad Ismail. This book was released on 2008. Sufi Movement and Sufi Literature in India in the Seventeenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India
Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India write by Neda Saghaee. This book was released on 2022-11-23. Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India focuses on one particular treasure from surviving Persian manuscripts in India, Nāla-yi ʿAndalīb, written by Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb (d. 1759), a Naqshbandī Mujaddidī mystical thinker. It explores the convergence and interrelation of the text with its context to find how ʿAndalīb revisits the central role of the Prophet as the main protagonist in his allegorical love story with great attention to the circumstances of the Muslim community during the eighteenth century. The present volume elucidates ʿAndalīb’s Sufism calling for a return to the pristine form of Islam and the idealization of the first Muslim community. It considers his Ṭarīqa-yi Khāliṣ Muḥammadiyya as a derivation of the Ṭarīqa-yi Muḥammadiyya, which had an important role in promoting Islam. The book attempts to clarify and systematize all of the concepts which ʿAndalīb employs within the framework of the Khāliṣ Muḥammadiyya, such as the state of the nāṣir and the Khāliṣ Muḥammadī. It addresses controversial topics in religion, such as the struggles between Shiʿa and Sunni Muslims, and the controversies between Shuhūdīs and Wujūdīs. It illuminates two key personalities, Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq and ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, and two types of relationships, the maʿiyya and ʿayniyya, with the spirituality of the Prophet. The book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Islamic studies, Islamic mysticism, the intellectual history of Muslims in South Asia, the history of the Mughal Empire, Persian literature, studies of manuscripts, Islamic philosophy, comparative studies of religions, social studies, anthropology, and debates concerning the eighteenth century, such as the transition from pre-colonialism to colonialism and the origins of modernity in Islam.
When Sun Meets Moon
When Sun Meets Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Sun Meets Moon write by Scott Kugle. This book was released on 2016-05-02. When Sun Meets Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as "Sun," was a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affair, gave up sexual relationships to follow a path of personal holiness. Mah Laqa Bai Chanda (1768-1820), known as "Moon," was a Shi'i and courtesan dancer who transferred her seduction of men to the pursuit of mystical love. Both were poets in the Urdu language of the ghazal, or love lyric, often fusing a spiritual quest with erotic imagery. Kugle argues that Sun and Moon expressed through their poetry exceptions to the general rules of heteronormativity and gender inequality common in their patriarchal societies. Their art provides a lens for a more subtle understanding of both the reach and the limitations of gender roles in Islamic and South Asian culture and underscores how the arts of poetry, music, and dance are integral to Islamic religious life. Integrated throughout are Kugle's translations of Urdu and Persian poetry previously unavailable in English.
