Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia (eBook, PDF)

Shrines, Journeys and Wanderers
Redaktion: Boivin, Michel; Delage, Remy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book discusses the role of popular Islam in structuring individual and collective identities in contemporary South Asia. It identifies similarities and differences between the worship of saints and the pattern of religious attendance to tombs and mausoleums in South Asian Sufism and Shi`ism. This geographical re-mapping of Muslim religious gatherings in contemporary South Asia contributes to a new understanding of South Asian and Islamic Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 211
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317380009
• Artikelnr.: 44753987

Autorenporträt

Michel Boivin is Director of Research at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the Centre for South Aslan Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), France. Remy Delage is Research Fellow at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, and Associate Researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry in India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Authority, Shrines and Spaces: Scrutinizing Devotional Islam from South Asia Part I: Authority and the Figures of Sainthood 2. Vagrancy and pilgrimage according to the Sufi Qalandari path: The illusions of anti-structure 3. Qalandars and Ahl-e Haqq 4. Woman [Un] like Woman: The question of spiritual authority among female fakirs of Sehwan Shar
f 5. Negotiating Religious Authority at a Shrine Inhabited by a Living Saint - The darg
h of "Zinda" Sh
h Mad
r 6. How Discourses Construct Figures of Holiness: The Example of the Indo-Muslim Martyr Gh
z
Miy
n (Uttar Pradesh, North India) Part II: Shrine and Circulation 7. Meditative Practice, aesthetics and entertainment Music in an Indian Sufi shrine 8. Evolution of the Chisht
Shrine and the Chisht
s in Pakpattan (Pakistan) 9. The Mother and the Other. Tourism and pilgrimage at the shrine of Hingl
j Dev
/B
b
N
n
in Baluchistan 10. Sacred Journeys, Worship and reverence: The Sufi legitimation of the ziyarat in Hyderabad 11. An ambiguous and contentious politicization of Sufi shrines and pilgrimages in Pakistan