Mughals and the Sufis :
Alam, Muzaffar, 1947-
Mughals and the Sufis : Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 / The Mughals and the Sufis Muzaffar Alam. - Ranikhet Permanent Black 2021 - xiii, 454 pages, 23 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
9788178246390(hbk.)
Sufism--History.--India
Islam and politics--India.
Islam and state--India.
Mogul Empire--Religion.
Mogul Empire--Politics and government.
India--Politics and government--997-1765.
297.4 ALA
Mughals and the Sufis : Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 / The Mughals and the Sufis Muzaffar Alam. - Ranikhet Permanent Black 2021 - xiii, 454 pages, 23 cm
Amazon
IN-6791
Rs.1067/-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
9788178246390(hbk.)
Sufism--History.--India
Islam and politics--India.
Islam and state--India.
Mogul Empire--Religion.
Mogul Empire--Politics and government.
India--Politics and government--997-1765.
297.4 ALA