| Description |
1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The embodiment of charisma / Pnina Webner and Helene Basu. -- The hardware of sanctity: anthropomorphic objects in Bangladeshi Sufism / Samuel Landell Mills. -- A 'festival of flags': Hindu-Muslim devotion and the sacralising of localism at the shrine of Nagore-e-Sharif in Tamil Nadu / S.A.A. Saheb. -- 'The saint who disappeared': saints of the wilderness in Pakistani village shrines / Lukas Werth. -- Langar: pilgrimage, sacred exchange and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint's lodge / Pnina Werbner. -- Hierarchy and emotion: love, joy and sorrow in a cult of black saints in Gujarat, India / Helene Basu. -- The majzub Mama Ji Sakar: 'a friend of God moves from one house to another' / Jürger Wasim Frembgen . -- A majzub and his mother: the place of sainthood in a family's emotional memory / Katherine P. Ewing. -- The literary critique of Islamic popular religion in the guise of traditional mysticism or the abused women / Jamal Malik. -- Prophets and pirs: charismatic Islam in the Middle East and South Asia / Charles Lindholm. |
| Summary |
This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations. It breaks new ground in current research. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sufism -- History -- 20th century.
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Sufism. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Mysticism -- Islam.
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Mysticism -- Islam. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Werbner, Pnina, editor.
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Basu, Helene, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Embodying charisma. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 (DLC) 97037918 |
| ISBN |
9781134746941 (electronic book) |
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1134746946 (electronic book) |
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9780203025208 |
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0203025202 |
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041515099X (hardback) |
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9780415150996 (hardback) |
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0415151007 (paperback) |
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9780415151009 (paperback) |
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