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This book addresses some of the fiercely contested issues about religion and politics in medieval India, especially with regard to the crucial presence of Sufis who styled themselves as friends and lovers of God. Enjoying widespread veneration even in situations of hostility with regard to Islam and Muslims in general, Sufis are central to an understanding of religious interactions and community relations historically.
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This volume brings together seminal essays on the perennial debate regarding the different roles Sufis played in medieval Indian society and culture. It focuses on crucial issues such as Sufis’ encounters or interactions in the Indian environment, episodic conversion, process of Islamicization, and expansion of Islam in India. The collection includes writings by prominent social historians—Khaliq Ahmad Nizami, Aziz Ahmad, S.A.A. Rizvi, Richard M. ...
Synthesizing current research and using major Persian sources--both printed texts and rare manuscripts--Sufism, Culture, and Politics provides an up-to-date political history of North India under Afghan rulers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Focusing on interconnections between religion and politics, it also raises questions of paramount concern to an understanding of Islam in medieval North India. The book is divided into three sections. The ...
Historians of Indian have lately been looking at the place of history in the country, both as an academic discipline and as a mode of public representation of the past. This book explores the status of regional and vernacular histories in relation to academic histories by professional historians. Was there history writing in India before the British? The stock answer to this question is 'no'. Other than the Rajatarangini of Kalhana, no ancient text adequately ...