Publication
Imprint: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992. Series: Suny series in Muslim spirituality in South Asia. Responsibility: Carl W. Ernst ; foreword by Annemarie Schimmel. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxxi, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Features: Includes appendices, bibliography, indexes.
Call number
History / Ernst
ISBN
0791408841 / 9780791408841
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Sects/Lineages: Chisti Order of Sufism .
Description: Ernst’s research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major center 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. The book clarifies the diverse historiographical approaches found in an array of narratives. It redefines major topics in the often emotionally charged study of religion and history in South Asia, and it raises provocative theses on much-argued topics such as the basis of Islamic political power in South Asia and the alleged roles of Sufis as warriors and missionaries. -- from back cover
Table of Contents: Part 1: Historiographical orientation: Sufism and Islam in South Asia --
Sufism --
Historiographies of Islam in India --
Religion and empire in the Delhi Sultanate --
The textual formation of oral teachings in the early Chishtī Order --
The interpretation of the Sufi biographical tradition in India --
Part 2: Chishtī Sufism at Khuldabad --
From Delhi to the Deccan --
Burhān al-Dīn Gharib's establishment and teaching --
The Indian environment and the question of conversion --
Part 3: The Khuldabad Sufis in history --
Political history of the Khuldabad shrines --
Khuldabad as a sacred center in the local context --
Part 4: Conclusions.
FY1996 / FY2015 /
Description: Ernst’s research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major center 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. The book clarifies the diverse historiographical approaches found in an array of narratives. It redefines major topics in the often emotionally charged study of religion and history in South Asia, and it raises provocative theses on much-argued topics such as the basis of Islamic political power in South Asia and the alleged roles of Sufis as warriors and missionaries. -- from back cover
Table of Contents: Part 1: Historiographical orientation: Sufism and Islam in South Asia --
Sufism --
Historiographies of Islam in India --
Religion and empire in the Delhi Sultanate --
The textual formation of oral teachings in the early Chishtī Order --
The interpretation of the Sufi biographical tradition in India --
Part 2: Chishtī Sufism at Khuldabad --
From Delhi to the Deccan --
Burhān al-Dīn Gharib's establishment and teaching --
The Indian environment and the question of conversion --
Part 3: The Khuldabad Sufis in history --
Political history of the Khuldabad shrines --
Khuldabad as a sacred center in the local context --
Part 4: Conclusions.
FY1996 / FY2015 /
Physical description
xxxi, 381 p.; 23 cm
Description
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. This second edition has a preface in which Ernst details the advances in the study of Sufism since the appearnance of this path-breaking book.
Language
Original language
English