Narrative Pasts reconstructs the literary, social and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants in Gujarat from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. This book departs from the narrow state-centered visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat's sultanate and Mughal past to the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.
Narrative Pasts reconstructs the literary, social and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants in Gujarat from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. This book departs from the narrow state-centered visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat's sultanate and Mughal past to the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran is Assistant Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. A historian of medieval and early modern (c. 1200-1800) South Asia, Balachandran received her doctoral degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is interested in social and cultural histories of Muslim communities in Gujarat and the wider Indian Ocean world. Her research has appeared in the Indian Economic and Social History Review and she has contributed several articles to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
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* Contents * List of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * Note on Translation/Transliteration/Dates * Introduction * 1. From Inscriptions to Texts: Locating the History of Muslim Migration and Settlement * 2. State, Settlement, Texts: The Beginnings of Community and History Making in Gujarat * 3. Texts and Tombs: The Creation of a Sacral Geography * 4. Networks of Community Formation * 5. Seventeenth-century Historiographical Resolutions: Ahmad Khattu and the Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sad Hikayat * Conclusion * Appendix: Shaykh Ahmad Khattu and his Suhrawardi Contemporaries in 16th- and 17th- century tazkirat * Bibliography
* Contents * List of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * Note on Translation/Transliteration/Dates * Introduction * 1. From Inscriptions to Texts: Locating the History of Muslim Migration and Settlement * 2. State, Settlement, Texts: The Beginnings of Community and History Making in Gujarat * 3. Texts and Tombs: The Creation of a Sacral Geography * 4. Networks of Community Formation * 5. Seventeenth-century Historiographical Resolutions: Ahmad Khattu and the Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sad Hikayat * Conclusion * Appendix: Shaykh Ahmad Khattu and his Suhrawardi Contemporaries in 16th- and 17th- century tazkirat * Bibliography
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