Muslim Saints of South Asia
The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:7th Apr '11
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This book studies the veneration practices and rituals of the Muslim saints. It outlines principal trends of the main Sufi orders in India, the profiles and teachings of the famous and less known saints, and the development of pilgrimage to their tombs in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A detailed discussion of the interaction of the Hindu mystic tradition and Sufism shows the polarity between the rigidity of the orthodox and the flexibility of the popular Islam in South Asia.
'Rarely has so much material been synthesised in so harmonious and readable a fashion ... M. Osama Faruqi is to be congratulated fo the elegance of his translation.' - South Asian Studies
ISBN: 9780415664714
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 470g
256 pages