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Subject(s)

• Islam—South Asia [Browse]
• Muslim saints—South Asia [Browse]
• Islamic shrines—South Asia [Browse]

Related name

• Boivin, Michel [Browse]
• Delage, Rémy [Browse]

Series

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 107. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Authority, shrines and spaces: Scrutinizing devotional Islam from South Asia / Michel Boivin
• Vagrancy and pilgrimage according to the Sufi Qalandari path: the illusions of anti-structure / Alexandre Papas
• Qalandars and Ahl-e Haqq / Mojan Membrado
• Woman [un-]like woman: the question of spiritual authority among female fakirs of Sehwan Sharīf / Omar Kasmani
• Negotiating religious authority at a shrine inhabited by a living saint: the dargāh of 'Zinda' Shāh Madār / Ute Falasch
• How discourses and rituals construct figures of holiness: the example of the Indo-Muslim Martyr Ghāzī Miyān (Uttar Pradesh, North India) / Delphine Ortis
• Meditative practice, aesthetics and entertainment music in an Indian Sufi shrine / Mikko Viitamäki
• Evolution of the Chishtī shrine and the Chishtīs in Pakpattan (Pakistan) / Muhammad Mubeen
• The mother and the other: tourism and pilgrimage at the shrine of Hiṅglāj Devī/Bībī Nānī in Baluchistan / Jürgen Schaflechner
• Sacred journeys, worship and reverence: the Sufi legitimation of the ziyārat in Hyderabad / Mauro Valdinoci
• An ambiguous and contentious politicization of Sufi shrines and pilgrimages in Pakistan / Alix Philippon.

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ISBN

• 9780415657501 ((hardback))
• 0415657504 ((hardback))

LCCN

2015027350

OCLC

800036194

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