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The essays explore Sufism as it developed in the Indian subcontinent, including translations of previously unavailable texts, and revealing unexpected insights into the lives, practices, and teachings of Indian Muslims over nearly a thousand years. They also trace remarkable moments in the history of Muslim engagement with Indian religious and cultural practices. This includes not only Muslim participation in Indian art and literature, but also the extraordinary ...
The Indian subcontinent has a remarkably rich heritage of complex cultural formations. One of these can be seen in Sindh -- now a province of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Sindh’s cultural heritage is marked with distinctive characteristics, which is today preserved not only in Pakistan, but also by a diasporic community in other regions of South Asia and beyond. Even if Sindh’s engagement with Islam goes back over a millennium: to the Arab ...
Eternal Garden traces the early history of Chishti Sufism in India through rare fourteenth-century textual sources in Persian preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major center of pilgrimage in the Deccan. These manuscripts reveal the mystical teachings and practices of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (d. 1337) and his disciples. The texts delineate diverse historiographical approaches to the political ...