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Muslim Saints and Mystics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Muslim Saints and Mystics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by A J Arberry, Attar's work and thought is set in perspective in a substantial introduction.

Scholars, Saints, and Sufis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Scholars, Saints, and Sufis

Middle East officially Near East.

In the Vicinity of the Righteous
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

In the Vicinity of the Righteous

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A highly original and accessible study of Muslim saint veneration in medieval Egypt (1200-1500 AD). Exploring various meanings saints held for the contemporary imagination, it convincingly challenges the view of saint veneration as merely an expression of 'popular religion'.

Saints and Saviours of Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Saints and Saviours of Islam

The Present Book Deals With The Least Known Reformative, Academic And Social Service Related Matters Where Muslims Have Contributed Clandestinely. Contents: 1. Ghazzali And Revival Of Islamic Sciences; 2. Ibn Taimiyah- An Introduction; 3. The Attitude Of Ibn-Taimiyah To Philosophy And Ilm Al Kalam; 4. Ibn Taimiyah`S Critique Of Greek Logic-A Study Of Ar-Raddo `Alal-Mantiqiyin; 5. Ilmul-Al-Kalam Of Shah Wali Allah Of Dehalawi; 6. The Background Of The Maktubat Of Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi; 7. Rational Sciences In Medieval India; 8. Sufism In Kashmir; 9. Spiritual Economy-Syed Ali Hamadani And His Role In The Advancement Of Arts And Crafts In Kashmir; 10. Muslims Contribution To Medical Sciences.

Muslim Saints and Mystics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Muslim Saints and Mystics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by A J Arberry, Attar’s work and thought is set in perspective in a substantial introduction.

Muslim Saints of South Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Muslim Saints of South Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-07-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book studies the veneration practices and rituals of the Muslim saints. It outlines principal trends of the main Sufi orders in India, the profiles and teachings of the famous and less known saints, and the development of pilgrimage to their tombs in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A detailed discussion of the interaction of the Hindu mystic tradition and Sufism shows the polarity between the rigidity of the orthodox and the flexibility of the popular Islam in South Asia.

Mystics and Saints of Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Mystics and Saints of Islam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-16
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  • Publisher: DigiCat

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mystics and Saints of Islam" by Claud Field. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Indian Sufism Since the Seventeenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Indian Sufism Since the Seventeenth Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Nile Green reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.

Hidden Caliphate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

Hidden Caliphate

Sufis created the most extensive Muslim revivalist network in Asia before the twentieth century, generating a vibrant Persianate literary, intellectual, and spiritual culture while tying together a politically fractured world. In a pathbreaking work combining social history, religious studies, and anthropology, Waleed Ziad examines the development across Asia of Muslim revivalist networks from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. At the center of the story are the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufis, who inspired major reformist movements and articulated effective social responses to the fracturing of Muslim political power amid European colonialism. In a time of political upheaval, the Mujaddi...

Sufis and Saints' Bodies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Sufis and Saints' Bodies

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power. Sufis and Saints' Bodies focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia. Kugle singles out a specific part of the body to which each saint is frequently associated in religious literature. The saints' bodies, Kugle argues, are ...