Sufi Thought: Its development in Panjab and its impact on Panjabi Literature from Baba Farid to AD 1850

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This volume contains an intensive and elaborate study of Muslim mysticism and its impact on Panjabi literature. This also highlights various shades of Panjabi Sufism which developed under the influence of Muslim orthodoxy, Neo-Platonism and various Hindu systems of thought. The author also compares it with the various Hindu mystic philosophies, such as Siddhism, Nathism, Vedanta and Nirguna and Saguna schools of Vaishnava Vedantic bhakti, etc. The book is marvellous and interesting blend of most prominent pantheism of the Occident and the Orient and propounds a completely fresh approach regarding the genesis of Sufism which is likely to stimulate fresh thinking on the subject.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S R Sharda

Dr. S.R. Sharda retired as Assistant Director of Languages, Haryana Government, Chandigarh.  He has a keen interest in Mysticism and has contributed several articles which have been published in reputed journals.  He has also authored several books in Hindi, Panjabi and English

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Title
Sufi Thought: Its development in Panjab and its impact on Panjabi Literature from Baba Farid to AD 1850
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8121503418
Length
xxiv+288p., Tables; Maps; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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#Sufism