Eternal garden : mysticism, history, and politics at a South Asian Sufi center
Bibliographic Information
Eternal garden : mysticism, history, and politics at a South Asian Sufi center
Carl W. Ernst ; foreword by Annemarie Schimmel
Oxford University Press, 2004
2nd ed
Available at / 4 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [341]-360
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in medieval Sufi shrines, Carl Ernst reveals the mystical teachings of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (c.1337) and his disciples. His study engages with key issues, such as the basis of Islamic political power in South Asia.
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
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