The Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750

Introduction: A long view of Sufism and political culture in India -- The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs, and the formation of the Akbari dispensation -- A Sufi critique of religious law, tasawwuf, and politics in Mughal India -- Shah Madar, Sufi religion, and a view of "true Islam" in a Mughal...

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1. VerfasserIn: ʿĀlam, Muẓaffar 1947- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Albany State University of New York Press [2021]
In:Jahr: 2021
Ausgabe:First SUNY Press edition
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Mogulreich / Islam / Sufismus / Politik / Geschichte 1500-1750
weitere Schlagwörter:B Mughal Empire Politics and government
B Sufism (India) History
B India Politics and government 997-1765
B Mogul Empire Politics and government
B Islam and politics (India)
B Islam and state (India)
B Mughal Empire Religion
B Mogul Empire Religion
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: A long view of Sufism and political culture in India -- The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs, and the formation of the Akbari dispensation -- A Sufi critique of religious law, tasawwuf, and politics in Mughal India -- Shah Madar, Sufi religion, and a view of "true Islam" in a Mughal Chishti Tazkira -- Strategy and imagination in a Mughal Sufi story of creation -- In search of a sacred king : Dara Shukoh and the Yogavasisthas of Mughal India -- Piety, poetry, and the contested loyalties of Mughal princesses, c. 1635-1700 -- The Naqshbandi Shaikhs of Sirhind in Aurangzeb's empire and its aftermath.
"Examines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centred around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality"--
Beschreibung:"First published by Permanent Black D-28."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physische Details:xiii, 454 Seiten
ISBN:1438484895