TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alam,Muzaffar
TI  - Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and political imagination in India, 1500-1750 
SN  - 9788178246390(hbk.)
U1  - 297.4 ALA 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Ranikhet
PB  - Permanent Black
KW  - Sufism
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Mogul Empire
KW  - Religion
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 997-1765
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -