Devotional Islam in contemporary South Asia : shrines, journeys and wanderers - Boivin, Michel; Delage, Rémy. (London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Islam -- South Asia; Muslim saints -- South Asia; Islamic shrines -- South Asia; Islam; Islamic shrines; Muslim saints; South Asia